Two items of interest came to my attention today; one involves yet another of Trump's highly questionable and appalling lack of proper and/or sane judgement, bordering on willful neglect, in the appointment of the minions who work for him in the US Government and how astoundingly unqualified, duplicitous, and, basically, idiotic they are; this article, published 12 Nov 2019, gives the story of Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, who seems to be not very far off the 'Trump Standard of Honesty And Integrity' when it come to stretching the truth to its breaking point:
Senior Trump official embellished résumé, had face on fake Time cover --
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...cover-n1080356
Quote:
A senior Trump administration official has embellished her résumé with misleading claims about her professional background — even creating a fake Time magazine cover with her face on it — raising questions about her qualifications to hold a top position at the State Department.
An NBC News investigation found that Mina Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department's Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, has inflated her educational achievements and exaggerated the scope of her nonprofit's work.
Whatever her qualifications, Chang had a key connection in the Trump administration. Brian Bulatao, a top figure in the State Department and longtime friend of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, attended a fundraiser for her nonprofit in Dallas and once donated $5,500 to her charity, according to a former colleague of Chang's.
Chang, who assumed her post in April, also invented a role on a U.N. panel, claimed she had addressed both the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and implied she had testified before Congress.
She was being considered for an even bigger government job, one with a budget of more than $1 billion, until Congress started asking questions about her résumé.
The gap between Chang's actual qualifications and her claims appears to be the latest example of lax vetting by the Trump administration, which has become known for its many job vacancies and appointments made without thorough screening.
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This level of malfeasance and neglect of duties and obligations by Trump and his minions is why his administration is the sad, pathetic wreck it is; this is more than mere mismanagement, it is almost literally no management at all, an administration that fails at administering...
I wonder where Ms. Chang got here idea of using a fake Time Magazine cover to embellish her status? May be it was inspired by this situation...
Time Asks Donald Trump's Golf Clubs to Remove Phony Magazine Cover --
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...gazine-n777546
I guess its a case of if you're gonna steal, steal from the worst...
The second item, and arguably the worst of the two, is described in this film clip from Seth Meyers' program, also 12 Nov 2019, about the level of incompetence of the candidates Trump has nominated to Federal Judge positions, which are
lifetime appointments; if it weren't for the fact the scenes in the clip are from actual Senate confirmation hearings, a casual observer would be inclined to think they were from a bad comedy skit; truth is stranger than fiction and, in this case, the truth is our Federal Court system is being crippled when such losers as these are even, in the wildest of imaginations, deemed to be acceptable candidates to hold highly responsible, lifetime judicial positions; only a complete and total idiotic fool would seriously think these are good choices...
I don't care about the party or political stance of any President who is doing the nominations to lifelong Federal Court appointments since that should not be a litmus test factor superseding the basic competency, ethics, integrity, and experiential background qualifications of a candidate. According to the ABA records, in the past thirty (30) years since 1989, twenty-one (21) nominees to the Federal Courts have received ABA ratings of "Not Qualified"; of these 21, nine (9) were nominated by Trump, a rate of 43% of the "Not Qualified" nominees in that 30 year period; Clinton had four (4) total nominees rejected by the ABA, and GW Bush had eight (8) nominees rejected, but it should be well noted both Clinton and Bush each had those many respective rejections over a period of two terms spanning eight (8) years, while Trump racked up his total in two and three-quarter years. The ABA also lists the degree of the overall ABA's reviewers' dissatisfaction with proffered nominees with the levels being: "Majority not qualified", "Substantial majority not qualified", and "Unanimously not qualified"; Clinton had none of his four listed nominees given the "Unanimously not qualified" rating, Bush had three of his eight listed nominees given the "Unanimously not qualified" rating, and Trump has had three of his nine listed nominees given the "Unanimously not qualified" rating over his two and three-quarter years; this is not a bell-ring endorsement of his past critical judgement, nor of hi present or possible future judgement...
ABA ratings during the Trump administration --
https://ballotpedia.org/ABA_ratings_...administration
It looks like Trump actually likes The Swamp... as long as its stocked with his gators...
Like I said, I don't care about which party or which part of the political spectrum is doing it when it is obvious bad is bad...
...and Trump is a very, very bad president doing a very, very bad job...
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