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Share Source: AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic Halie Soifer, the CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, smeared former U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell in a tweet on Tuesday after it was announced the Trump administration appointed him to the Holocaust Memorial Council. Soifer claimed in her tweet that Grenell sought to empower far-right parties & anti-establishment conservatives in Europe. Others have been unqualified, but he s emboldened actual neo-Nazis. Today, Trump appointed Richard Grenell to the Holocaust Memorial Council. As US Amb to Germany, Grenell sought to empower far-right parties & anti-establishment conservatives in Europe. Others have been unqualified, but he s emboldened actual neo-Nazis.https://t.co/ipqZzvZVzt Halie Soifer (@HalieSoifer) December 22, 2020 ....
December 22, 2020 3:38 PM ET Font Size: President Donald Trump announced plans to appoint current senior adviser Hope Hicks to a new government role, the White House announced Tuesday. Hicks will join the William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, which aims to “improve intercultural relations.” Hicks’ appointment came among a long list of last-minute appointments Trump is making ahead of President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in January. Other notable appointments include former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell to the Holocaust Memorial Council and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center. Hicks returned to the White House in mid February, roughly two years after she resigned in 2018. ....
In this March 29, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump poses for members of the media with then-White House Communications Director Hope Hicks on her last day before he boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House . more > By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Tuesday, December 22, 2020 President Trump is naming a who’s who of close allies and confidantes to high-profile boards on his way out the door. He tapped Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and key impeachment adviser, to serve on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Hope Hicks, a close aide during his 2016 campaign and White House counselor, is heading to the board that oversees Fulbright Scholarships, while Richard Grenell, who served as U.S. ambassador to Germany and acting Director of National Intelligence, was appointed as member of the United Sta ....
As Trump’s term nears end, loyalists seal plush posts 21 Dec 2020 Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski speaks at the GOP headquarters in Martinez, Georgia. File/Associated Press Jordan Fabian, Tribune News Service Donald Trump has appointed a slew of prominent aides, supporters and fundraisers to federal advisory boards since losing re-election, a sometimes controversial practice that indicates recognition his presidency is coming to a close. Roughly three dozen Trump allies have received appointments to federal boards and commissions in recent weeks including some who bring no apparent expertise to the posts. For instance, Trump appointed two of his 2016 campaign officials, Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, to the traditionally nonpartisan Pentagon’s Defence Business Board. Andrew Giuliani, the 34-year-old son of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, secured a spot on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s board, along with the ....
A letter to the Post Back around 1992, then-Attorney General William P. Barr ordered published a Justice Department broadside, “The Case for More Incarceration,” in which prison was described as the best antidote to crime. Mr. Barr repeated in public the report’s bottom line: “The choice, then, is simple: more prisons or more crime.” Mr. Barr’s ideologically driven bent drove the United States to achieve its place as the nation that incarcerated more of its population than any other: With one-twentieth the world’s population, we held one-fourth of its prisoners. Mostly brown, Black and decidedly poor. Many locked up for years to meet the demands of the “war on drugs” that Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush advanced. No evidence backed Mr. Barr’s claims, and time proved Mr. Barr wrong: Crime ended up decreasing as imprisonment decreased in states such as New York, California, New Jersey and Connecticut. ....