Last one out of the Donald Trump administration, turn out the lights
Donald Trump has always used up his criminal underlings and moved on from them more quickly than he goes through Big Macs, so it’s perhaps not surprising that he’s gone through political advisers just as quickly. What’s remarkable is that he’s struggled so badly to replace them. Now he has yet another major hole to fill, before he could even finish filling it the last time around.
Late last year, one day after she was caught up in an ethics scandal exposed by CREW, Donald Trump’s U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, abruptly announced she was going to resign. She then stayed on through the end of 2018 to give Trump time to replace her. But the best Trump could come up with is former Fox & Friends co-host Heather Nauert, who had absolutely no qualifications for the job. Now it turns out she’s running away from the job.
Last night Heather Nauert abruptly withdrew her own nomination, citing family reasons. That’s nearly always a cover for something else, and sure enough, by the time the night was over, multiple major news outlets were reporting that Nauert had illegally hired an immigrant as a nanny. Of course that’s surely a cover story as well. The complicit GOP Senate has confirmed Trump nominees with far bigger scandals. So something far uglier was surely about to surface about Nauert, and she hit the panic button, hoping that stepping off the stage on a Saturday night might prevent it from coming out.
Of course Nauert isn’t the real story here. It’s that when Nikki Haley went running for the exits amid scandal, Donald Trump couldn’t find anyone better than Heather Nauert who was willing to take the job. Now Nauert is also running away amid scandal, meaning that by default, Trump will end up nominating someone even worse than her. Or he could just not bother. He won’t be in office that much longer anyway. Last one out the door, turn out the lights.
