Tag: Competence (law)

Waters recently called on Kelly to resign over his handling of domestic abuse allegations against ex-White House aide Rob Porter. But when FBI Director Christopher Wray testified in the Senate earlier this month, he said the agency completed the investigation into Porter in July and contradicted the White House’s timeline of his background check. “This self-centered president with his 3 a.m. tweeting is presiding over a chaotic administration with John Kelly who can’t get his lies straight,” Waters said during her Saturday keynote address in San Diego. “This president has managed to hire the most incompetent staff and he’s made the most ridiculous appointments to his Cabinet.” Waters also ticked through several of Trump’s Cabinet secretaries and argued why they are unfit to serve in the administration. "Give me a break, Betsy DeVos?” Waters said of the Education secretary. “This woman has never seen the inside of a classroom. All of her efforts have been to work on the elimination of public education in favor of privatization." She also took aim at “sorry” Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, who was a presidential candidate before endorsing Trump and a retired neurosurgeon. “Those skills do not qualify him to lead and manage HUD,” Waters said to roaring applause. “We must send Ben Carson back to the hospital where he can do some operating and get him out of HUD.