Trump Boots IG Who Would Oversee $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Effort

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 6: Glenn Fine, acting Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Defense, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning firearm accessory regulation and enforcing federal... WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 6: Glenn Fine, acting Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Defense, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing concerning firearm accessory regulation and enforcing federal and state reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) on Capitol Hill, December 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Trump has removed acting Pentagon inspector general Glenn Fine from his post as the chairman of the federal panel Congress created to oversee his administration’s management of the $2 trillion coronavirus relief law, Politico and the Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Fine was notified Monday that he is being replaced by acting inspector general of the Environmental Protection Agency Sean O’Donnell, according to Politico.

Fine had served as acting Pentagon inspector general for more than four years, after serving as the Department of Justice’s inspector general for 11 years.

Fine’s ouster comes amid Trump’s ongoing war against inspectors general. On Friday, Trump fired the intelligence community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, who handled the whistleblower complaint that led to Trump’s impeachment. A few days later, Trump railed against HHS principal deputy inspector general Christi Grimm, who authored a damning report on testing shortages, by falsely accusing her of being an Obama administration holdover.

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  1. It’s obvious he was an impediment to the grifting which Toadglans said he would personally oversee.

  2. Avatar for spin spin says:

    This is really a step towards fascism. I can’t overstate how dangerous this is. The IGs are the few people who can hold Trump’s corruption to account, and they have been doing so. Now Trump has decided to take them out, so that he only has sycophants and grifters, and can use the full machinery of government to lie and cheat to win re-election.

    Trump is trying to rig things, and the democrats must stand up, and make clear that they will stop him, using their ability to block funding is need be by (a) passing election security measures, and (b) by putting in iron clad controls, not ones that require courts (since Roberts has shown himself to be a partisan hack, and the Supreme Court will do Trump’s bidding) but that automatically remove funding authority and budget.

    Meanwhile Bernie fiddles as Rome burns…

  3. Doesn’t even begin to register…

    surprise_meter

  4. Maniac in chief

  5. He’s not fiddling, he’s “assessing”. Hopefully, the Biden landslide vote count by all the heroic Democratic voters in Wisconsin today will put an end to his quixotic campaign.

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