Kellyanne's Fascist Victim Complex

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

During his final bitter days in office, one of the ways Diaper Don killed time before that last taxpayer-funded flight to Mar-a-Lago was by rewarding his loyal minions with various positions in the federal bureaucracy that they could burrow into and perhaps use to harass and hobble the incoming Biden administration.   Some Trump appointees would be hard to blast out of their political sanctuaries - Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, for instance - while others were easier targets.

Yesterday the Biden administration went after several of the easier targets.

During the day eighteen Trump appointees to the "Academy Board of Visitors" of the US Military Academy (West Point), the US Air Force Academy, and the US Naval Academy received letters saying that they had until six p.m. to resign their positions or they would be fired.  Apparently some chose to accede to the President's wishes and left those advisory positions voluntarily, but at least four have refused.

John Coale, a Washington lawyer, said that he was "pissed off" about having to leave his position on the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors before even getting to attend one meeting - and apparently David Urban, a lobbyist, Afghan War vet Meaghan Mobbs, and retired General Jack Keane are all stepping down from the US Military Academy's Board of Visitors without a lot of drama.

But there is some high theatre to be had from a few of the last-minute Trump appointees.

Jonathan Heiler, who had been the director of legislative affairs for Mike Pence, is refusing to leave his perch on the Naval Academy's Board of Visitors, as is Russell Vought, the former White House Budget Director.   Vought has said that he has a three-year term and intends to serve it out.  A third Trump appointee to that same board, former Press Secretary Sean Spicer, said that he intends to take legal action to keep the largely ceremonial position.

But the loudest cackle had come from former White House Counsel Kellyanne Conway who wrote a lengthy letter of rebuttal to the President which she then posted on Twitter.  Conway accused President Biden of going after the Trump appointees as a way of distracting from other problems that she thinks are currently besetting the White House, and, in particular, difficulties encountered as Biden ended the war in Afghanistan.  Conway concluded her diatribe by stating that she would not resign from the Air Force Academy's Board of Visitors, but she feels that Biden should resign his job.

In her letter to the President, Conway posed as the victim of a political purge.

Not long after Kellyanne Conway posted her tweet and letter to Biden, it brought a response from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of Congress from New York.   AOC had this to say to Ms. Conway:

"A predictable, if not unfortunate, outcome.   Clinging onto vestiges of power against the people's will is kind of your / Trump's / the GOP's thing.  When you're fired, don't let the fascist victim complex hit you on the way out."

AOC has previously been a player in the continuing drama surrounding Kellyanne Conway.  Last summer Conway's troubled teenage daughter, Claudia, while in a public spat with her mother, went on Twitter and asked AOC to adopt her!

Fortunately for AOC, she resisted!