.MaddowBlog: Yesterday served as a reminder that the efforts to remove Trump loyalists from government posts are ongoing.
in December, the then-president spent his final weeks in the Oval Office"doling out plum spots on premier boards and commissions to his friends and supporters ... who will serve fixed terms even after Mr. Trump leaves office."
The Republican seemed wholly indifferent to qualifications and merit, which led him to appoint partisan operatives such as Kellyanne Conway and Sean Spicer to military service academy boards. Yesterday, as PoliticoThe Biden White House has begun the process of removing Trump allies from military advisory boards, months after they were installed into those posts at the end of the last administration.
And so, 18 Trump appointees were told they could either voluntarily step down or be fired. Many were defiant,, Trump's former campaign manager, who complained that the Biden White House was failing to honor"presidential norms." Because if there's one thing we learned about Team Trump's priorities over the course of four painful years, it's the seriousness with which Conway and her colleagues cared about"presidential norms."
As a practical matter, the pushback against the White House's decision appears to be irrelevant. The president appears to have
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