'That's Not the Kirstjen We Know' ; "This almost Cruella de Vil press conference that she held was s
Kirstien has been trumped. Simple as that
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/02/kirstjen-nielsen-immigration-crisis-former-colleagues-218939
Thats Not the Kirstjen We Know
DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is the flinty face of the immigration crisis. Her former colleagues dont understand how she got there.
By JOSEPH GUINTO
July 02, 2018
The Friday Cover
Trump City illustration.
Last Wednesday, just before President Donald Trump put his jagged signature onto an executive order to stop separating migrant children from their parents at U.S. borders, he glanced over his right shoulder to look at Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Great job, Trump said quietly.
Longtime associates of Nielsens say that was praise the 46-year-old DHS chief had wanted to hear. But her path to receiving it was baffling. Nielsen had, some associates say, pushed Trump and others in the White House to create the executive order, even though just days before Trump signed it, Nielsen herself publicly insisted it could not be createdthat only Congress and the courts could undo what the Trump administration had been doing for weeks. Nielsen defended her stance in a series of truth-twisting tweets and then at a tense White House news conference in which she belittled reporters and contradicted other administration officialsincluding Attorney General Jeff Sessionsabout the purpose of the child-separation policy.
Nielsen instantly became the face of one of the most unpopular policies in America. She was criticized in the news media and then publicly heckled by a crowd when she tried to go out for dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Washington one night later.
She also presented a new puzzle to observers: a career bureaucrat who seemed, like others before her, to be burning her professional reputation on behalf of a president known to throw his own people under the bus. But what was Nielsens reputation, exactly? The right-wing press had recoiled at her DHS nomination, calling her an open borders zealot on the basis of a 2016 report shed written on refugees. Others recognized the toughness on display but had never expected to see her in that public role.
This almost Cruella de Vil press conference that she held was shocking to those of us who know her, said Arick Wierson, a TV producer, columnist and former media adviser to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg who was a classmate of Nielsens at Georgetown Universitys Walsh School of Foreign Service. Thats not the Kirstjen we know............................
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(30,613 posts)How is he getting people to do it? Kompromat?
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(89,182 posts)Who people thought was the good guy and he did do some good things.
But he turned out to be a bigot. Willing to put up with shit to pass the common bigoted agenda.