Communications director. She was not the spokesperson at the podium on tv every day and she was working on communication strategy overall. She quit, april 21st 2009. Word from the white house, it wasnt a good fit. Did seem to be an amicable departure. She left the white house but what she did is move over where to the Commerce Department where she became chief of staff there and served happily for years. But she was the first. Ellen moran became the first high profile departure of the Obama Administration. So from day one, january 20th, they made it two months and one day, to april 21st three months and one day. January, february, march, april. Sorry, three months and one day. And nobodys saying that first terms are easy. Particularly when its a period who cant run anything at the federal level before, right . Theres definitely a learning curve and you gotta figure out if you got the right people around you and theres going to be some turnover. So with the brandnew Obama Administration, that oneterm u. S. Senator coming in to be president for the first time, of course ellen moran wasnt the only white house official who turned out to be a good fit. The following month, there was the director of the white house military office. He resigned after he approved a dumb photoop. This was the photo. Where air force one flew really too close to the statue of liberty and people got nervous in new york when they saw it. So he left a month after the White House Communications director. Then three months later in july, it was the top adviser on the auto bailout, who left. And then the month after that, in august, it was the Obama Administrations adviser on Cyber Security who resigned. Then in september, it was van jones. Van jones is very well known now because hes a cnn guy now. But he was less well known then as an adviser to president obama on green jobs. In september he resigned too. So if you were looking for signs of a brandnew administration having trouble finding its feet, maybe even an administration in turmoil, thats what you had in terms of major departures from the Obama Administration in the first 252 days. When the Obama Administration was as old as the Trump Administration is today, they really had their fair share of departures, high profile departures from the new administration. The white house military office, a shortlived communications director, couple of advisers, they were all out. Well, we are now 252 days into the Trump Administration lets see how theyre stacking up on the same scale. So in the same time period when those were the major departures from the Obama Administration, the Trump Administration, we couldnt even keep them all the same size. We do not mean to imply that any of the smaller heads are less important than the larger heads, its just tough to squeeze them in. The Trump Administration has been here 252 days and so far the Trump Administration has lost or fired the acting attorney general, the National Security adviser, the Deputy White House chief of staff, the director of the fbi, the dep if i National Security adviser, their first White House Communications director, mike dubke there. The vipts chief of staff, thats pit dock. The chief of staff the noteworthy security council, the White House Press secretary, sean spicer. The assistant White House Press secretary of state, the white house chief of staff, another White House Communications director, mr. Scaramucci. The senior director for intelligence at the National Centre court counsel, the white house chief strategist, steve bannon, also the special adviser to the president on regulatory reform, high professional Deputy Assistant to the president who nobody really knew what he did, remember Sebastian Gorka . Nobody knew what he did. But he was Deputy Assistant to the president. We also lost the Vice President s press secretary and now today the secretary of health and human services. Everything okay, you guys . Sorry we couldnt keep all your heads the same size. I mean, i realize, barack obama, new president , losing his green jobs adviser in the first year, i mean, that was something that was of grave concern to like fox news, for not just weeks, but months. But whats happened at the Trump Administration, this is an order of magnitude different. Weve never seen anything like this. This latest departure tonight from the Trump Administration is notable because its a cabinet secretary, tom price, right . A cabinet secretary happened to resign in a big Corruption Scandal. And its notable because it really is the latest in a tremendous flood of major departdures from this very young administration, right, in this slo short amount of time. Its also notable because you really could see this one coming. This time last night, i said we were on resignation watch when it came to tom price. But you could see it coming a long time ago, from the minute he got nominated to the cabinet. He was dogged from the beginning by a scandal from his time in congress, where he enthusiastically bought and traded Health Care Companies stock while he was taking actions on the Health Care Committee that he ran that affected the stocks of those companies. He was questioned about the fact that some of the trades he did in Health Companies were vip deals where only he and a few other select clients were allowed to trade those stocks at those prices. Hair mr. Chairman of the house subcommittee, howd you get those special deals . Tom price, when questioned about that in his confirmation hearing, he just denied that hed been in on any vip stock deals. He said, no, the public could have been in on any of those deals, which was not true. He was under oath at the time and he never went back and corrected those statements. But the republicans on the committee and in the senate at large were happy to vote for tom price anyway. And you know what, it turns out when somebody during their confirmation process shows a proclivity for selfdealing in Government Employment and when theyre more than happy to lie about it and not even bother to clean it up once theyre caught lying about it, even under oath, when somebody shows you thats who they are, as they say, believe them. If thats what you paid for in a cabinet secretary, that is what you will get as a cabinet secretary. But thanks to investigative reporting from rach ana prad an and dan diamond at politico, Health Secretary tom price will not go down in history as the Health Secretary to tried to take away Health Insurance coverage from tens of millions of americans, hell go down in history as the second casualty from the Trump Administration related to direct and serious allegations of corruption. They made it 252 days and only lost two people to Corruption Scandals. The first was carl icahn who left his regulatory adviser position under a cloud of allegations about how he appeared to have used that position for his own enrichment. For tom price, the proximate cause of his resignation is the embarrassment over his extensive and enthusiastic private jet travel, which was all charged to taxpayers. As scoop after scoop was published about tom prices Million Dollar plus luxury private aviation, including hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of flights he took with his wife on military aircraft that cost taxpayers up to 25,000 an hour, after those scoops mounted at politico daum over the last ten days, the white house got dragged into it too. The president himself telling reporters he was bothered by what hed heard about tom price and these flights. Then the White House Press secretary took care yesterday to say that the white house had no role in approving any of tom prices private flights. But then at 7 00 last night, yet another scoop about more than a half Million Dollars in military flights for tom price and his family that the white house did, in fact, approve. Which makes it harder for this to get written off as some case where the president was upset to hear about this wasteful behavior by tom price. Given that his white house approved it, that will be harder to get away it. Or it should be. Trumps Health Secretary is out now. So maybe the focus will shift to trumps epa director, who has not only got the same private jet travel fetish as tom price, hes lined himself up an 18man, 24 hour a day security dedale and bizarre he, hes having the epa pay to build a secure soundproof phone booth in his office which is costing taxpayers about 25,000. Now his agency first tried to say that his magic soundproof room was a security necessity. Its a skiff. They tried to say this is just the epa building its a sensitive compartmented information facility so employees can handle super top secret epa materials. But it turns out the epa already has a skiff already built, already exists on a separate floor. What theyre building for scott pruitt is just what the contract calls a privacy booth for the administrator. A privacy booth in which we will presumably be safeguarded by his 18 bodyguards and to which he will be flown on one of several private jets. If its not epa administrator scott pruitt who gets the attention next, it may instead turn to interior secretary ryan zinke, who, it turns out, doesnt always use a horse for his commute. Sometimes ryan zinke has taxpayers pay for a private jet flight on an aircraft owned by an executive from an oil and Gas Exploration company in wyoming. While, as interior secretary, hes also moving to give away more federally controlled public land for oil and Gas Exploration. The one private jet flight the taxpayers paid for on the oil and gas executives plane, that one started in las vegas, where secretary zinke had been giving a motivational speech to a hockey team owned by his Biggest Campaign donor. Thats where the trip started. It ended at ryan zinkes house in montana. And taxpayers paid for that to be a private jet flight on an Oil Executives plane. Secretary zinke has also charged taxpayers to pay for his private jet flights to Republican Fund raisers and then there were the multiple private jet flights he charged to taxpayers for flights to and around the u. S. Virgin islands. You know, to be fair, thats the kind of one where you think, okay, that may make sense. We know how hard hit the u. S. Virgin islands were by the hurricanes, but actually, no, in this case, ryan zinke charged taxpayers for private jet flights to and from and around the Virgin Islands in march way before the hurricanes, when everything was fine. In fact, what he did there was go on a snorkeling tour. Which the taxpayers paid to fly him through on a chartered private jet and with ryan zinke, again, could have seen this coming. They decided they did not mind that official report on him from his time in the navy when he got in big trouble in the navy because he, according to the navy, had fiddled his expenses, in order to get the government to pay for his personal travel. If you decide you dont care about ethics issues like that when you nominate people to things, you get headlines like this once those people are in office, you get behavior like this. And you can just keep going on this same theme. It really is a very deep theme in this new administration. Theres also trumps treasury secretary who requested a 25,000 an hour military flight for his european honeymoon. He didnt get it. He did have to settle for flying his new bride on a military jet that expensive to kentucky, to ft. Knocks where the publication coin World Reports the happy couple inspected the gold. But theres more. Theres also trumps Veterans Affairs chief and his wife who taxpayers apparently just paid to send on a tenday european vacation sorry work trip, that included a championship tennis match at wimbledon and i do mean championship, it was the womens final, were talking Serena Williams. The trip included a tour of Westminster Abbey and a river tour down the thames and they saw the Little Mermaid statue and trips to four separate palaces. In the middle of this trip, trumps vip secretary had four Straight Days with no daytime business whatsoever on the calendar. They were very efficient. He and his wife made the most of it. Four palaces is a lot. Washington post points out tonight that secretary shulkin took this whole taxpayerfunded shebang less than two weeks after he signed a memo for other staff at the va, telling them to please review their planned travel to determine if it was really truly necessary. Quote, i expect this will result in decreased employee travel and generate savings with the department. Signed, secretary shulkin. So he signs that, and then on his way out the door, bye, gotta go, im going to four different palaces. And im going to see Serena Williams. Im going to wimbledon you guys get these travel costs under control. I gotta go, my wifes waiting. So trumps Health Secretary is gone as of tonight, his va secretary, his treasury secretary and his epa administrator appear to have done the same stuff as the Health Secretary. So theoretically, if the administration is going to say that tom prices behavior is a problem, we should be watching to see if those other four officials from the trump cabinet are going to go now too. To encourage you not to hold your breath on that, after tom price resigned today, the president chose to display his personal disapproval of tom prices terrible taxpayerfunded conspicuous waste by himself flying on air force one to his golf resort in new jersey. Today as the white house absorbed a second day of blunt headlines about their tax plan and its expected effect, which would be to shovel lots more money to the richest people in the country and to corporations. Today as one of the multiple trump cabinet members caught up in a private jet Corruption Scandal finally had to resign, today the ninth day of a legitimate crisis continued to unfold for the three and a half million americans who are the victims of a terrible storm that hit more than a week ago now, but who continue to be victims of what thus far has been a botched and dramatically inadequate federal response. The president over the past few days has been insisting like a bizarre fantasy mantra that everythings going great in puerto rico. And our team has been incredible. Weve had tremendous reviews from government officials. We are doing a great job. Everybody has said its amazing the job that weve done in puerto rico, were very proud of it. As far as puerto ricos concerned, thats been going, as you know, really well. I think its going really well. Weve made tremendous strides. Its been incredible the results that weve had. People cant believe how successful that has been. We have done an incredible job. Weve done a really good job. Im there to help, i can tell you that. This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water. We will not rest, however, until the people of puerto rico are safe. After saying today that he would not rest until the people of puerto rico are safe, then right after that is when the president flew to his golf resort, which is where he is right now. 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