A top aide to President Trump’s housing secretary nominee, Ben Carson, was fired and led out of the department’s headquarters by security on Wednesday after writings critical of Mr. Trump surfaced in his vetting, according to two people briefed on the matter.
Shermichael Singleton, who was one of the few black conservatives in the Trump administration, had been working at the Department of Housing and Urban Development since Jan. 23 as a senior adviser.
— the New York Times
“My party in particular has allowed itself to be taken over by someone who claims to be a Republican but doesn’t represent any of our values, principles or traditions,” wrote Shermichael in The Hill in October of last year.
^ Take a listen to a recent Archinect Sessions episode with our guest Emily Hunt Turner as she talks about her experience working at HUD as a lawyer.
Ben Carson's alleged reaction doesn't help.
I wonder who else has zero control of their cabinet?
Everyone.
I bet there's a gradient
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I'll put this bluntly: If you can't take criticism you have no place being in charge of anything.
well phrased tduds
This is how governments get run by kleptocrats and authoritarians.
Ben Carson's alleged reaction doesn't help.
I wonder who else has zero control of their cabinet?
Everyone.
I bet there's a gradient
He trusts his daughter. She's safe.
I smell bait...
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