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April 8:
Kirstjen Nielsen and Donald Trump were a bad fit from the start. The only
question was who was going to leave whom.
The story released for public consumption is that, following a White
House meeting with Trump on Sunday, Nielsen decided to resign. By all accounts,
however, she wasn’t ready to call it quits. She was fired as head of the
gargantuan Department of Homeland Security, which employs a staggering 240,000
people.
For years, scores of Border Patrol agents have [said] that there is no wall high
enough, deep enough, or long enough to stop someone who has to feed his or her
family. ....
The split between Trump and Nielsen was about the difference between
politicians who win over voters by promising the impossible, and the Cabinet
officials who have the misfortune of being tasked with making the impossible
happen.
In her public comments over the last few months, Nielsen dropped hints that –
even if she wanted to shut off all illegal immigration -- her hands were tied by
the law and the Constitution, as well as by what Congress had already
authorized, and could be expected to authorize going forward.
... Nielsen was also limited by something bigger. She was
constrained by her attempt to do her job in a way that was – to use words that
probably seem foreign to anti-immigrant crusader and White House Senior Adviser
Stephen Miller, who reportedly had a hand in her firing – honest, practical, and
realistic.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-moment-kirstjen-nielsen-doomed-her-future-with-trump
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's attempts to raise the
alarm about Russian interference in American elections was thwarted by White
House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who told her not to bring up the subject
with President Donald Trump,
The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Mulvaney made it clear Trump viewed any public talk of malign Russian
election activity with questions about the legitimacy of his victory and thus
did not want the subject discussed.
Even though the Department of Homeland Security has the main responsibility
for civilian cyberdefense and Nielsen was extremely concerned about Russia's
interference in the 2018 midterm elections and future ones – due to Trump's
attitude – she gave up on attempts to organize a White House meeting of Cabinet
secretaries to coordinate a strategy to protect next year's elections.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/kirstjen-nielsen-election-interference-dhs/2019/04/24/id/913097/
