Most people thought that Patel would be the next major administration figure out the door. I don’t think the markets were counting on Gabbard leaving for a completely legitimate personal reason. Patel is still considered the most likely to be gone by year’s end.
Some news reports say that her stated reason is a pretext, that she wanted out because of her opposition to the Iran attacks, and that Trump wanted her gone for the same reason.
I’m surprised Kristi Noem is still listed (at 50%!) since she left two months ago.
Or does becoming “Special Envoy to The Shield of the Americas” still count as being in the administration?
Technically. And she’s dumb enough to buy it. “I got promoted!” she tells everyone at cocktail parties.
It’s referring to the odds of her no longer being in her NEW job, the phony-baloney boondoggle that Trump created for her. Something about Captain America’s Shield.
Knowing this regime, she bet heavy on herself and quit to profit from it.
She could have gone full Bobby Riggs? Yeah, that would surprise nobody.
It was opportunity. I think the husband’s cancer diagnosis is real, and it was the perfect excuse to step away. Trump wanted her out sooner.
While I hope for the best for her husband, why is it that I cannot help but think she made that up as an excuse. Trump said figure out a plausible by Friday close of business, or you are fired. You know he loves that saying. Her husband’s condition is a sympathetic reason for her departure. And I hate that I have had to live in this timeline where I have to even consider this though as opposed to me having 100%, unquestioned, compassion for her husband.
NYT and WaPo both say she was forced out. It’s been known for a while she wasn’t OK with attacking Iran, especially since the CIA’s year-end worldwide threat report didn’t say jack about Iran having a nuclear weapons program.
Turns out she was completely right. Apparently orange moron is about to ‘negotiate’ a deal that opens the Strait that was already opened before, go back to talks about nuclear which already happened previously (including the deal that resolved the issue that he tore up in his first term), and release billions of dollars to Iran.
All for the cost a probably a couple hundred billion in munitions and damages, along with deaths. His cult will pat him on the back for creating a considerably worse condition with huge amounts of taxpayer money, for a problem he himself created.
This is what happens when idiots vote for idiots.