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NBC legal analyst reveals Trumps Fauci frustration: Federal workers can only be fired for cause
Published 14 mins ago on April 13, 2020By David Edwards
NBC legal correspondent Pete Williams reported on Monday that it wont be easy for President Donald Trump to fire the federal governments top infectious disease expert.
The question about whether Trump can oust Dr. Anthony Fauci surfaced after the president retweeted a #FireFauci hashtag.
According to Williams, Fauci is not a political appointee so he can only be fired for cause.
GOOD!
Ex Lurker
(3,816 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I hope not!
LiberalArkie
(15,730 posts)I think they were or did do that with some of the national parks or some big group and moved them out of DC and out to SD or places like that. It was last year and really don't remember much about it.
rampartc
(5,439 posts)or, they can document a misconduct claim.
trump, nor hos people, know or care how the government works. they would rather tweet about "deep state" connections ans attack him with their troll army
Peregrine Took
(7,417 posts)Put them in a nondescript building across the street from the Time/Life building in an empty office with a phone and a phone book.
No contact with them at all but he would keep them on the payroll. Eventually they all did quit but I wonder how long the longest one stayed?
yonder
(9,682 posts)And a stapler?
xmas74
(29,676 posts)Naptime on the clock, then lunch, then maybe a crossword and some reading time.
They'd have to fire me.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)He's such an ignorant fuckface. Ugh.
underpants
(182,949 posts)That's a real thing with Clustertrump
Docreed2003
(16,883 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)They are repukes. It is what they do. 🤬🤬🤬
lapfog_1
(29,228 posts)to an obscure office in Fairbanks Alaska.
We had a civil servant, nice guy... but essentially useless, who was allowed to retire in place. And much like the character in a movie, his desk was moved to shipping and receiving where he served out the remainder of his career.
captain queeg
(10,273 posts)Sometimes it was actually kind of benevolent when it was someone whod been there a long time and they were close to retirement age. But more often it was someone so worthless that they couldnt even pawn them off on another agency.
DEbluedude
(816 posts)They'll find something. No matter how trivial. These MFer's are bottom-feeders.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)🤬🤬🤬
saying things Trump doesn't like is treason.
In his sick mind & those of other repukes. 🤬
Anything but truth & transparency!
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)and knowledge. Dr. Fauci will receive a ton of unsolicited job offers. It's the dump who's trying desperately to hang of to the grifter in chief title for life because he has no other prospects.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I hope if he is fired, that Joe's campaign hires him. I'm sure Bloomberg could make him a nice offer! 😉
procon
(15,805 posts)It doesn't matter how many laws exist that in ordinary times under a normal president, would have protected Fauci. Trump will find a way to silence him.
He might be effectively gagged if his attendance at key committees is revoked, or he's not allowed access to any other govt agencies, professional colleagues, scientific studies, the latest data coming in from So. Korea, etc.
Knowing Trump from his past performances in retaliating against those who have stood against him or simply told the truth. Trump will want to see Fauci humiliated and embarrassed, so he will attempt to destroy his profession career and diminish his respect as a global expert. What better way to hamstring a scientist than assign him to a job like counting hospital masks in some cavernous warehouse where he'll never be heard from again.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Anything but truth or transparency these days!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You see Trump following that rule, or anyone in the Republican majority of the Senate holding him to it? Trump doesn't like a rule or a law, he just ignores it, and dares anyone to hold him to it. Mostly they don't, and he gets away with it again and again.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)Because Trump is a motherfucking asshole enemy of our country just dripping with a Russian piss.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)meadowlander
(4,408 posts)that he spends coming up with ways to punish his "enemies" we would already be through this crisis.
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)and then Biden should hire him immediately as a campaign adviser.
Starfury
(812 posts)patphil
(6,230 posts)live love laugh
(13,157 posts)RandySF
(59,414 posts)gibraltar72
(7,513 posts)Blue Owl
(50,529 posts)n/t
iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)He also needs to do it before he gets fired by the American people for cause. Then we can re-hire the people that he fired and send Trump off to prison where he belongs. Thank you, now I'm going to hop on my unicorn and ride off into the sunset. This COVID thing is causing me to drink during the day.
Midnight Writer
(21,819 posts)I used to be rep for a government union. Have seen this many times. Best outcome for Fauci would be reinstatement with back pay.
Submariner
(12,511 posts)out of the way and next to the coffee machine.
sop
(10,274 posts)The highly-respected and credible 79-year-old Dr. Fauci doesn't strike me as someone all that worried about his career. He's already all over the evening cable shows, so I doubt he'll go quietly. Trump better heed the advice of Don Corleone, "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer."