The chopping block: Trump’s list of fired IGs
by Susan Ferrechio
| May 18, 2020 09:36 PM
1. Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson: President Trump wrote to Congress on April 3 he no longer had confidence in Atkinson, who helped facilitate the whistleblower complaint that led to his impeachment. Republicans had criticized changes in the whistleblower policies by Atkinson that permitted secondhand information to be used to launch an investigation.
2. Department of Defense acting Inspector General Glenn Fine, who was to chair the panel overseeing coronavirus federal spending: No official explanation provided by Trump for the April 7 firing. Trump said, “I don’t think I ever met Fine,†and suggested he was cleaning out Obama-era holdovers, citing “reports of bias.â€
3. Health and Human Services acting Inspector General Christi Grimm: Trump replaced Grimm on May 1 with assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Weida after Grimm released a report in late March that found “severe shortages of testing supplies†and “widespread shortages of personal protective equipment†among other problems experienced by medical workers battling the coronavirus. Trump later tweeted that Grimm was an Obama-era holdover who never contacted coronavirus task force members before conducting the report.
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