More Than 1,800 Resignations, Terminations Since Trump Inaugurated

 

Since the day Donald Trump took office, more than 1,800 resignations and terminations have occurred at media outlets (such as Vanity Fair), universities (including Harvard), at governmental agencies, and elected officials holding positions of power.

The mayor of Seattle resigned after his fifth accusation of child molestation. Oodles of people at USA Gymnastics have resigned. (No surprise there, but why didn’t this happen to these people, and I use that word loosely, a decade ago?) Eric Schmidt is gone but not forgotten. Cecile Richards resigned at Planned Parenthood, after presiding over at least 3.5 million abortions.

Here’s a Google document listing them all.

Additionally with the revelation of Zuckerberg selling off a significant portion of his FB stock once he knew he would be coming before Congressional oversight, it might be interesting to find out why this is not insider trading? At least one VP at FB also did the same thing.

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  1. The Scarecrow Thatcher
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    CarolJoy: Cecile Richards resigned at Planned Parenthood, after presiding over at least 3.5 abortions.

    Do you mean 3.5 million abortions?  .5 of an abortion is kind of hard to get my head around. (Then again, so is 3.5 million abortions. 😞)

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  2. AltarGirl Inactive
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    The Scarecrow (View Comment):

    CarolJoy: Cecile Richards resigned at Planned Parenthood, after presiding over at least 3.5 abortions.

    Do you mean 3.5 million abortions? .5 of an abortion is kind of hard to get my head around. (Then again, so is 3.5 million abortions. 😞)

    Twins

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  3. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    The Scarecrow (View Comment):

    CarolJoy: Cecile Richards resigned at Planned Parenthood, after presiding over at least 3.5 abortions.

    Do you mean 3.5 million abortions? .5 of an abortion is kind of hard to get my head around. (Then again, so is 3.5 million abortions. 😞)

    I did mean 3.5 million

    My typing put in 31.5million  and when I corrected that, I over corrected.

     

     

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  4. ST Member
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    Any thoughts concerning why there have been so many resignations?

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  5. The Scarecrow Thatcher
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    AltarGirl (View Comment):

    The Scarecrow (View Comment):

    CarolJoy: Cecile Richards resigned at Planned Parenthood, after presiding over at least 3.5 abortions.

    Do you mean 3.5 million abortions? .5 of an abortion is kind of hard to get my head around. (Then again, so is 3.5 million abortions. 😞)

    Twins

    Ouch. 

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  6. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    ST (View Comment):

    Any thoughts concerning why there have been so many resignations?

    Some people referred to are obvious acts of nature. A person is at one job and then moves on. The 92 year old founder and owner of IKEA is on the list for his death.

    But the ten or so USA Olympics folks went down for ignoring for over a decade the pleas of woman athletes who knew their being probed in their nether regions was not any real kind of therapy for spraining their ankle or bruising an elbow. The doctor involved should have been investigated during the time of the first complaint. Not dozens of complaints later.

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  7. The Whether Man Inactive
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    I don’t understand how most of these are connected to Trump taking office. 

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  8. Israel P. Inactive
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    The Whether Man (View Comment):

    I don’t understand how most of these are connected to Trump taking office.

    The same way Obama’s election was going to cause the oceans to recede.

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  9. Front Seat Cat Member
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    ST (View Comment):

    Any thoughts concerning why there have been so many resignations?

    I think it started before Trump, but all these groups protesting since his inauguration may have inadvertently revealed the garbage in their own trash cans – I credit many many prayers and the Holy Spirit cleaning house – amazing what is found when the light of day shines on it.

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  10. The King Prawn Inactive
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    What are the numbers compared to any equal space of time when Trump wasn’t president? It has to be higher than normal turnover to be significant. Also, correlation ≠ causation.

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  11. Stad Coolidge
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    The King Prawn (View Comment):

    What are the numbers compared to any equal space of time when Trump wasn’t president? It has to be higher than normal turnover to be significant. Also, correlation ≠ causation.

    Agreed.  All of these things happened after I voted for Trump, so I’m taking credit!

    Still, it’s an invitation for an analyst to see if there is something there . . .

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  12. drlorentz Member
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    The King Prawn (View Comment):

    What are the numbers compared to any equal space of time when Trump wasn’t president? It has to be higher than normal turnover to be significant. Also, correlation ≠ causation.

    Excellent question and valid observation.

    All resignations and terminations are not of the same kind. However, there have been some resignations that have been directly linked to Mr Trump. Undoubtedly, there have been many more, not reported in the press, that have been caused by sharp policy disagreements with the president. Whether or not this is going on at an unusual level is open to question. Nevertheless, here are two observations:
    1. Given the extremely vocal and strident opposition to Mr Trump from the Left, it’s reasonable to conjecture that the reactions are outsized this time. Bear in mind that most federal employees inside the Beltway are on the Left.*
    2. Press reports support the thesis that the resignations or terminations are unprecedented, in which “a mass exodus” of  “the [State] department’s entire senior level of management officials” who “abruptly left positions they’d held for years.” The article states “… that there is typically a high degree of turnover when new administrations are installed. But they all said that the abrupt and simultaneous exodus of senior management officials was unlike anything they’d seen before.” [emphasis added]

    Are all resignations and terminations caused by the election of Mr Trump? Of course not. Has there been an unusual amount of turnover (“swamp-draining”)? Seems likely.

    *The voters in the District and immediate surrounding precincts always overwhelmingly support the Democratic nominee for president, usually at the >90% level in DC. This was accentuated in the 2016 election.

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  13. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    Stad (View Comment):

    The King Prawn (View Comment):

    What are the numbers compared to any equal space of time when Trump wasn’t president? It has to be higher than normal turnover to be significant. Also, correlation ≠ causation.

    Agreed. All of these things happened after I voted for Trump, so I’m taking credit!

    Still, it’s an invitation for an analyst to see if there is something there . . .

    Great response. Thank you, Stad.

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  14. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    The Whether Man (View Comment):

    I don’t understand how most of these are connected to Trump taking office.

    Like Stad states in newer comments put up, it is a list with possible evidence. A starting point, as it were.

    After Trump got in office, he wholeheartedly accepted the challenge put to him by Melania and Ivanka to clean up the sex trafficking situation. (There is still a Feb 2017 youtube up about his announcement and press release regarding his commitment to this issue.) He made it possible for Homeland Security to go after people in sex trafficking rings inside the USA, whereas prior to his Inauguration, HS only could go after people in foreign nations.

    As of mid summer 2017, some 2,000 arrests had been made relating to child porn, sex trafficking et al. With some 600 to 800 sex slaves, most of them women and children, freed to begin normal lives. Now those numbers have tripled.

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  15. The King Prawn Inactive
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    drlorentz (View Comment):
    Given the extremely vocal and strident opposition to Mr Trump from the Left…

    This is half of the problem I have with the current climate we’re in: the unthinking, reflexive hatred of Trump. The other half is the unthinking, reflexive love of him from the right.

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  16. Stad Coolidge
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    The King Prawn (View Comment):
    The other half is the unthinking, reflexive love of him from the right.

    I wouldn’t call it “unthinking”.  My “love” (actually admiration) is based on what he’s done.

     Then there’s the fact he’s drawing so much hatred from the left.  Gotta mean he’s doing something right . . .

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