One banana short of a republic
Like Henry Hill’s fondness for gangsters, Donald Trump always wanted to be a dictator. He’s as desperate to be one as he is for a Nobel Peace Prize. The problem is that Trump wants to join a club that wouldn’t have someone like him for a member. So instead he’s gathered other lowlifes and formed his own club:
The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department’s headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The New York Times.
The women said Ms. Chavez-DeRemer’s husband, Dr. Shawn DeRemer, had touched them inappropriately at the Labor Department’s building on Constitution Avenue. One of the incidents, during working hours on the morning of Dec. 18, was recorded on office security cameras, the people said. The video showed Dr. DeRemer giving one of the women an extended embrace, and was reviewed as part of a criminal investigation, one of the people said.
Okay, so he’s just the husband of a Trump employee. How much of that reflects the character of Secretary Chavez-DeRemer?
Well:
The inspector general’s office is investigating a formal complaint that Ms. Chavez-DeRemer was having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate — a member of her security detail — and abusing her office by taking staff to strip clubs, drinking alcohol on the job and taking personal trips at taxpayer expense. Her lawyer has denied the allegations.
Innocent until proven a member of Trump’s cabinet, I say.
During her tenure as labor secretary, thousands of department employees have been pushed out of the federal service. Her department has also broadcast social media messages that echoed those used by white nationalists.
It’s quite a club he’s assembled.