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Staff Turnovers: Casualties of the Trump Administration

As of May 3, 2018, here is a list of people who have left the Trump administration. We’ve compiled the list from multiple sources including the Rachel Maddow Show. You can view the latest video segment here.

Cabinet

  • Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price
  • Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
  • Secretary of Veteran Affairs David Shulkin

West Wing

  • Chief of Staff Reince Priebus
  • Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh
  • Deputy Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn
  • Director of Public Liaison George Sifaks
  • Office of Public Liaison Communications Director Omarosa Manigault
  • Staff Secretary Rob Porter
  • Deputy Assistant to the President Sean Cairncross
  • Chief Usher Angella Reid
  • Assistant to the President Reed Cordish
  • Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Carrol (moving to the “drug czar position”)
  • White House Chief Financial Advisor Gary Cohen
  • White House Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert
  • Special Assistant to the President for Tax and Retirement Policy Shahira Knight
  • White House Attorney Ty Cobb
  • White House Counsel’s Office Director of Special Projects Michael Roman

Self-Identified “Nationalists” in the White House

  • Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon
  • National Security Aide Sebastian Gorka

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No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down

The following article by Katie Benner was posted on the New York Times website February 9, 2018:

Rachel Brand, the associate attorney general, was widely seen as the most likely successor to Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general overseeing the inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election. Credit Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters

WASHINGTON — Rachel L. Brand, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department, plans to step down after nine months on the job as the country’s top law enforcement agency has been under attack by President Trump, according to two people briefed on her decision.

Ms. Brand’s profile had risen in part because she is next in the line of succession behind the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who is overseeing the special counsel’s inquiry into Russian influence in the 2016 election. Mr. Trump, who has called the investigation a witch hunt, has considered firing Mr. Rosenstein.

Such a move could have put her in charge of the special counsel and, by extension, left her in the cross hairs of the president. Continue reading “No. 3 Official at the Justice Department Is Stepping Down”