WASHINGTON (AP) — A White House spokesman says the president still has confidence in embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin.
Three administration officials told The Associated Press Sunday that Trump is planning to oust the embattled secretary amid an extraordinary rebellion at the agency and damaging government investigations into his alleged spending abuses. The three officials demanded anonymity to discuss a sensitive personnel matter.
But Gidley is dismissing reports of Shulkin’s imminent dismissal. He’s telling Fox News Channel, “we hear these types of rumors every day.”
Gidley says, “At this point in time, though, he does have confidence in Dr. Shulkin.”
But he says the president “wants to put the right people in the right place at the right time, and that could change.”
Definitely the kiss of death. ‘Confidence’ coming from tRump means the opposite of what any normal human being understands that word to mean. I give it less than a week. If there’s some really bad news…which is everyday with this asshole at the helm, tRump will time it like everything else, as a diversion and a distraction. He has a pocketful of these types of things he saves up for just an occasion.
Can’t wait for his SQUIRREL moment. Shulkin has just days, if not hours to clean out his desk and leave the keys with security.
…and don’t forget to pack that picture on your desk of you and your wife at Wimbledon. It’s the only prized memento you’ll have of the job. You can thank the taxpayers for your profligate spending on yourself later. Btw, has he paid us back in full, yet??
Shulkin is soon to be fired. Trump just gave him the kiss of death.
Its funny how outraged tRump pretends to be with reckless spending by his agency heads and subordinates when he literally does the same thing with our tax dollars without any compunction whatsoever. He continues to spend ungawdly amounts of our money on himself in all sorts of ways, but the worst are his trips to his golf courses. 60+ Million and counting…
And that’s only in 15 months.
My thoughts exactly, “has confidence in…” means pack up your desk and keep your jacket with you at all times because they will toss you out without bus fare in your pocket within the week.
Why does the White House even bother opening its yap on this subject? Everybody knows that Trump “still has confidence in” means that the person in question will be fired in the current week.