Conservative groups, including the Heritage Foundation and Judicial Watch, met with White House staffers and advised the president to fire Obama holdovers ASAP. Top of the list, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
The only justification I can think of for retaining this guy is that his possible replacements would be worse.
This asshole and Comey, I don’t get it.
Trump needs to fire anyone that has a connection to Hussein Obama.
By “around”, do you mean not in jail?
Koskinen and Comey must have some serious, industrial-grade dirt on some of the Powers That Be, maybe even including Trump. That’s the only thing I can figure.
Godfather: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Go to the mattresses.
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It seems unlikely Trump missed all the hoo-rah about the IRS targeting conservative people/orgs, so the only things I can think of to keep Koskinen in his place is 1) He’ll be easier to prosecute as a gov’t employee and not a civilian. 2) He’s a good source of info on how the IRS is being run right now, 3) He may try to cut a deal in exchange for blowing the whistle on the former WH and DoJ connections with the IRS scandal.
Other than these things, I got nuthin’.
Fire him and leave the Commissioner office vacant.
What useful function does the commissioner fulfill anyway?
Also…Geoff C. reminded me that it takes a long time to put together a winnable prosecution by the AG (and Sessions will be incredibly thorough about this). If they decide to move forward on this and other scandal loose ends (like Clinton’s email stuff, the curious case of Benghazi, etc), Sessions won’t be satisfied — and neither will Trump — to get a mere perjury conviction. Trump hasn’t been in office for three months yet, Sessions even less, and this admin isn’t put together completely. There’s the twin problem of moving the MAGA ball down the field every week and not to become bogged down in Oversight hearings, grand juries, and have those become the daily news instead of the news today, for example, where the National Mfgs Assoc reports that the confidence level survey among their members is over 90% because of Trump’s policies toward domestic mfg and business.
Trump and Sessions have lots of Irons in the fire.
They will heat up.
No sense getting in a hurry like the health care bill
Obama didn’t close Gitmo, but he made a lot of room there.
Koskinen, the Clintons, Susan Rice, Eric Holder, Lois Lerner, and a few others are deserving of a nice long tropical vacation there.
The makeup artisrs really went overboard. Golum looks like shit.
I will celebrate and get totally blitzed on the first prosecution of these high level Commie Bastards (last celebration I had was on Jan 20th).
Their time is sneaking up slowly behind them.President Trump is doing the work of five men.
The drain in the swamp is greatly impeded by the amount of sludge protecting it. MAGA!!
He has proven that he’s a useful tool.
PERIOD.
izlamo delenda est …
@Fritz the Cat: “This asshole and Comey, I don’t get it.”
Trump cannot fire Comey. If Comey resigns before his term expires, Trump gets to name his replacement. Comey could also get impeached by congress.
Fire him? Hell, deport him back to whatever planet he came from