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The GOP senators» concerns about MacManus's time serving as one of Clinton's closest aides stems from reports that he was one of three of her aides who knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack within minutes of it happening.

The sources said Pruitt's decision to put Greenwalt in charge of his international travel, which came just months into his tenure at EPA, fit a pattern of Pruitt assigning the most sensitive responsibilities to his small cadre of aides who had previously worked with him in Oklahoma before he became EPA administrator — aides who sources said were more likely to acquiesce to his demands, even as other EPA staffers objected to Pruitt's spending and travel decisions.

Suffolk Conservatives are sore that Republican Comptroller John M. Kennedy Jr. fired party member Bartolo Dalli, who has served as a deputy for six years, in favor of another aide who just failed a civil service test.

Cuomo, who has raised his profile by increasing his travel, hiring a number of aides who worked for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and pushing a number of liberal positions, has not signaled that he is running for president but has also seemed happy to see the rumors float about.

Wait, so Paterson calls the girlfriend of his aide who's filed domestic abuse charges to get her to drop the charges against his aide, but he's bringing up a 20 year old criminal conviction of Astorino's father?

The complaint said that Kelly told two top executives at Competitive Power Ventures that Cuomo's office had given him an opinion asserting that there would be no ethical conflict if the energy company were to hire the spouse of an aide who could influence regulatory decisions.

According one of his aides who disclosed the development, the former military administrator of Kaduna state raised the draft and tendered it to the EFCC officials in Abuja.

President Obama also wanted to keep using a smartphone, but when he assumed office, he traded in his BlackBerry for a secure, encrypted device that had most smartphone features turned off and could only communicate with a preselected group of aides who also had secure devices.

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Meanwhile, some of those who turned on Edwards, notably his former aide Andrew Young and his wife, have by their own admission done well financially for doing Edwards in.

His role came under harsh scrutiny this year over his handling of the controversy surrounding ousted White House aide Rob Porter, who was accused of domestic abuse.

In Trump's West Wing, once the rumors begin that an aide's exit is forthcoming, the «stink» on that staffer never leaves, according to one of the nearly dozen White House aides, former administration officials and outside advisers who spoke to The Associated Press under the same conditions.

The first lady, who was a model, said she looked forward to «sharing my ideas and traditions of entertaining and social hospitality» with her new aide.

Many of the emails came from accounts belonging to Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, who was also Clinton's longtime aide and a senior adviser to her campaign, The Journal reported.

The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was not authorized to speak publicly about the issue.

The server investigation put such political strain on the FBI in large part because of the environment of ethics stories that surrounded it — the business and philanthropic empire that arose out of and was hopelessly intertwined with the Clinton political operation, the high - dollar paid speeches, the political aides who were somehow getting so rich off this enterprise that one of them just bought David Rockefeller's mansion.

The conservatives, liberals and socialists, who command a large majority of the parliamentary seats, will work out a joint motion on Tuesday and expect to debate the issue in parliament on Wednesday and vote on it on Thursday, Tremosa's aide said on Monday.

DuVernay also felt it vital to honor «the caregiver» — the sort of woman who, like Richie Jean Jackson, made sure Martin Luther King and his aides were housed, fed and encouraged.

The program came under scrutiny earlier this year after it was revealed that Nicole Meyer, the sister of senior White House aide Jared Kushner, who is the son - in - law of President Donald Trump, name - dropped Kushner while giving a presentation to Chinese investors.

Earlier this week, at a Harvard University forum, Zucker heard pretty much all of it again — out loud — as campaign aides who worked for several different presidential candidates heckled the network exec, peppering him with accusations that CNN aided the rise of President - elect Donald Trump.

Albert «Kell» Kelly, a top aide to Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt, who worked on toxic waste cleanups, resigned Tuesday amid criticism of his past work in banking in Oklahoma, where he was banned from the industry.

So Porter, a little - known White House aide who has avoided getting caught up in any of the West Wing drama that has plagued the administration for the better part of seven months, serves to review everything before it makes it to the president's desk.

A former Forbes reporter says that President Donald Trump lied to him in order to make the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans, including impersonating an aide who didn't exist to claim wealth he didn't have.

A senior communications aide who has worked for top Republicans on Capitol Hill lamented about the problem he regularly faces, arguing that «most» of the reporters who constitute the mainstream press «are biased.»

An early foreign - policy adviser and aide to President Donald Trump's campaign team secretly pleaded guilty earlier this month to making false statements to the FBI about the nature and extent of his contacts with foreign nationals who he knew had ties to senior Russian government officials.

The timing of the announcement also came as a surprise to White House aides, even those who had been informed days earlier of the imminent shake - up, two sources familiar with the plans said.

It's not yet clear who might replace Cohn — potential names being floated include Navarro, conservative economic commentator and former Reagan aide Larry Kudlow, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, former restaurant chain CEO Andrew Puzder, former Federal Reserve Gov. Kevin Warsh, and Shahira Knight, Cohn's deputy.

All along, there has been a camp of advisers in the administration who have been pushing for tariffs and other «tougher» trade policies — including White House aide Peter Navarro and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

More changes may be afoot under Kelly, who is continuing his personnel review and is said to be targeting aides without clear portfolios of responsibility.

He's also been accused of approving large raises for political aides against White House orders, and retaliating against EPA employees who disagree with his spending habits.

Meehan resigned from Congress in April, and said he planned to reimburse taxpayers $ 39,000 he used to settle a complaint from a decades - younger former aide who accused him of repeated unwanted romantic advances.

Kahlon is a former aide to Adrian Dix, who filed a complaint with the RCMP about the Quick Wins scandal when the BC Liberals released 10,000 pages of email after the 2013 election.

Stewart said Trump was «just wrong» to call Putin and congratulate him on his reelection over the objections of his own national security aides, who wrote talking points for him with the words «DO NOT CONGRATULATE.»

The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government.

Over the objections of his aides and advisers — who urged him to focus on policy and the broader goals of his presidency — the new president issued a decree: He wanted a fiery public response, and he wanted it to come from his press secretary.

Among top - level appointees, Trump has now turned over a chief of staff, a chief strategist, two deputy chiefs of staff, a national security adviser, two deputy national security advisers, a staff secretary, a longtime personal aide and a deputy assistant to the president who was a foreign policy adviser.

Career officials who typically handle international travel were also sidelined, at least in part, with Pruitt delegating the planning of his international trips to Greenwalt — his senior counselor and longtime aide, two administration officials and one source familiar with the matter said.

The ouster of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, who has been mired in scandal over his charging taxpayers for luxury travel expenses and the infighting among his senior aides, had been widely expected and was made official at 5:31 p.m. by presidential tweet.

«Artificial intelligence is one of many leading - edge technologies that China seeks and that has potential military applications,» said the Cornyn aide, who declined to be identified.

John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.

The Washington Post counts 37 high - level Trump aides or advisers who've resigned or been fired, including a chief of staff, multiple agency heads, and — importantly, given the administration's need to build a bench for its future — deputy directors of the National Economic Council, the National Security Council, and the Domestic Policy Council, as well as multiple deputy chiefs of staff.

One aide who felt energized by the president's actions was the embattled White House chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, who shares Mr. Trump's anger at the efforts of local governments to remove monuments honoring prominent Confederate figures like Robert E. Lee.

Being the center of political activity in the U.S. means that this city is shaped by people from all over the country who move here to work as congressional aides, lobbyists, policy analysts, reporters, elected officials, bureaucrats, organizers, etc..

In the words of a Marco Rubio aide, those American citizens and current residents who have been facing declining wages, declining labor force participation, and collapsing families «can't cut it».

But after the first two years, most of this foundation's money went to Mel Steely, a former Gingrich aide who is now Newt's official biographer.

Religion is relevant to mental cripples who are so incredibly stupid they are unable to accomplish tasks without the aide of an imaginary friend.

According to House aides, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan spoke out against the measure along with Kevin McCarthy of California, however, the vote was behind closed doors so there is no public record of who voted for and against it.

«I had not heard him speak that openly about his faith in a public setting prior to last night,» said Gary Marx, a former Romney aide who is executive director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, in an interview on Thursday.

Rubio got so carried away with the findings of the autopsy that one of his aides explicitly argued for expanding guest worker programs as an alternative to the hiring of American workers who «can't cut it.»

Greed can only be committed by companies, not by upstanding ladies like Sandra Fluke who need thousands in aide from the rest of us to buy contraception.

And for Williams, who works as an aide to special needs kids, it's prayers — not money — that she has to give to her candidate of choice.