Trump admin defends legality of "shadow rulers" that run the VA from Mar-a-Lago - Polidicks

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-administration-defends-legality-veterans-affairs-shadow-rulers The Trump administration is defending the legality of having three Trump associates help steer the Department of Veterans Affairs from the president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, asserting that a Watergate-era sunshine law on advisory committees shouldn’t apply. In a court filing last week, the government lawyers argued in part that the trio didn’t fit the law’s definition of an advisory committee because rather than being under the agency’s control, the three men reportedly wielded influence over the agency. “Far from alleging that the department managed or controlled the three individuals, the complaint asserts quite the opposite: that the three individuals asserted influence over the department,” Justice Department lawyers said in the filing, which was submitted on Friday. The government asked a judge to throw out a challenge from a liberal activist group, VoteVets, which alleged that the VA’s interactions with the so-called Mar-a-Lago Crowd violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The 1972 law, known as FACA, requires federal agencies to inform the public when they consult outside experts. “President Trump’s recent effort to dismiss our case is the latest slap in the face to the men and women who have sacrificed to protect our country,” Will Fischer, VoteVets’ director of government relations, said in a statement. “America’s veterans deserve a commander-in-chief who cares enough about our well-being not to outsource decisions about our health care to dues-paying members of his golf club.” The Mar-a-Lago trio — Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter, West Palm Beach physician Bruce Moskowitz and lawyer Marc Sherman — have weighed in on many VA policy and personnel decisions despite having no official role or relevant expertise, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and interviews with former officials. VA officials flew to Mar-a-Lago at taxpayer expense to consult with the trio, and officials who didn’t get along with them were sidelined or removed. Perlmutter, Moskowitz and Sherman were most deeply involved in an effort to overhaul the VA’s electronic health records — an expensive, high-stakes project that is already suffering from leadership turmoil that could put VA patients’ safety at risk, according to a ProPublica investigation. That's right they're saying it's legal because "These unelected unappointed rich dudes aren't consultants, they're the managers"

so, globalists, huh?

So, literal deep state?

From the thread title cut off, I was expecting "Trump defends the legality of shadman" and him ranting about how underaged women are fine if they're cartoons. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211527/a027faf0-d651-4c4d-b818-300d30e3ae33/fuck.png

Hey remember when people MAGA'd really hard over the words "drain the swamp"? And how the MAGA crowd is often among the most vocal about "SUPPORT OAR TROOPS!!!!!!" How embarrassing.

the GOP's voterbase has been so brainwashed and manipulated so hard that they will listen to any old propaganda that is spewed out of the tea party's mouth. this is literal doublethink, they will manipulate their voters into believing two contradictory opinions at the same time and holding them to the same worth

I know. That's what's so embarrassing. It's pretty much a cult of personality.

Trump supporters don't actually give a shit about our troops or draining the swamp.

🚪🐀💨

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAY5yVTUAAECF6i.jpg This image continues to be more and more relevant as this shit goes on.

old men running the world

The people afraid of fascism coming to America have been screaming about the clear cult of personality Trump has, it’s like an American Stalin with a weaker jaw, and a weaker ego.