These fucking people:
Senior Trump administration official Mina Chang resigned from her job at the State Department two and a half hours after NBC News went to her spokesperson to ask about newly discovered false claims she had made about her charity work.
NBC News had previously reported that Chang, the deputy assistant secretary in the State Department’s Bureau of Conflict and Stability Operations, had embellished her resume with misleading claims about her educational achievements and the scope of her nonprofit’s work — even posting a fake cover of Time magazine with her face on it.
“It is essential that my resignation be seen as a protest and not as surrender because I will not surrender my commitment to serve, my fidelity to the truth, or my love of country,” Chang wrote in her resignation letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “Indeed, I intend to fight for those things as a citizen in the days and years to come.”
Why would you even lie on your resume to get a job in this administration, as it is completely unnecessary. Literally any shithead can get a job with this administration. I mean, Trump is the President- the bar is pretty god damned low.
tokyokie
I feel chastened and will remove a couple of the Nobel Prizes I include on my résumé.
Ruckus
Some people are really special.
You ask why would you lie to get a job with this maladministration?
It’s a job requirement, she just skipped the part about being asked.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
These people have weird ideas about the meaning of the word “truth”.
mrmoshpotato
Shot in the dark here, but, “Because it’s trash all the way down?”
mrmoshpotato
@tokyokie: And add 3 Peabodys, 2 Emmys and an Oscar! And a BAFTA award for good measure!
And don’t you be modest and leave off the Medal of Freedom you were awarded by Zachary Taylor.
sdhays
Someone got her job by mimicking the boss…
Omnes Omnibus
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?
Sab
Mina Chang with no qualifications, and many disqualifications (multiple cases of lying on her resume) had the same rank in the State department as George Kent. Good job vetting, Pompeo people.
mrmoshpotato
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: “Truth”*
*Also valid for massive amounts of steaming bullshit.
Chetan Murthy
I think you’re all being too hard on her. She couldn’t exactly lie about criming, could she? They check that shit out — gotta know if the yegg they’re hirin’ is actually legit, so to speak. So she had to lie about do-gooding — it was her only option.
Gin & Tonic
Why is “commitment to serve” and “love of country” always manifested in a six-figure job in DC, and not, say, in a gig with the Peace Corps in Cameroon, or aboard a destroyer in the Persian gulf?
Jay
So, petty mcgrifter saw an opportunity for the big grift by:
– paddington bearing the resume , ( would be useful post Dolt45, had it not been exposed during Dolt45)
– weaselling a post in Pompeo’s State for which one is wholly unqualified, but because it’s a Dolt45 Admin, easy in, chance for the Big Money Corruption,
– when exposed, do the Wingnut Victim Whine in the hopes some Sugar Daddy Kochsucker will give you a Welfare Job.
Martin
Can you get a job in this administration without lying on your resume? Isn’t the willingness to commit petty crimes and lapses of ethical behavior a prerequisite to getting hired?
EmanG
First, Obama led us into a post-racial society. Now Trump has led us into a post-shame society. Progress!!
Adam L Silverman
@mrmoshpotato: It was necessary to process the pay grade equivalency for her position. A Deputy Assistant Secretary is somewhere in the SES 2 or 3 range. It requires specific educational credentials. Even for political appointees.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I thought that was Rudy Giuliani.
mad citizen
@Gin & Tonic: I notice the term “serve” a lot in and around my state government job. I’ve noticed that the political appointees, governors, etc. who talk about “serving” are always making more money than myself. Mitch Daniels and his people would always write the press release about the person leaving as “returning to the private sector”, as if that was somehow the default and “serving” in government is some (low-paying/slumming) aberration. He even liked to talk about it referring to himself. What is doing today? In the public sector pulling down 400 or 500K a year as the president of Purdue University. Serving indeed. (you touched a nerve
Anyway, did this Trump criminal work for The Human Fund by any chance?
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: Because the people that decide who is and isn’t important all live in DC or in news studios and newspaper offices in NY.
MobiusKlein
@Adam L Silverman: Not even a carve out for ‘experience in the field’?
At some point, credentialism shuts out sensible candidates, replacing them with folks willing to lie.
Kay
The Q people think Trump is dead. Pence is President, and an actor plays Trump to avoid “civil unrest”.
Adam L Silverman
@MobiusKlein: There can be. It depends on how they’ve written the position description. And I’m sure there are some for the political appointments because you’ll get people with a wide range of degrees, from bachelors who are lifetime practitioners, to folks with professional degrees, advanced academic degrees, etc.
lgerard
@Kay:
I thought JFK Jr was supposed to take over
Something has clearly gone wrong
PS Love the new editing function
Adam L Silverman
Who could’ve ever predicted?
mad citizen
@Kay: This is awesome! Let’s not tell them about Paul McCartney, the Abbey Road cover, etc.
Adam L Silverman
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@mad citizen: I am the Walrus.
sdhays
@Kay: Well, if it’s true, they’ll be blabbing about it on unsecured cell phones and talking loudly on the phone in Starbucks, so we’ll hear about it soon enough.
TS (the original)
@Kay: Just heard the memo from his doc? (a doc) on MSNBC that says he is just fine, no heart problems, just a planned trip to the hospital (on a weekend without telling anyone).
Not showing himself to anyone.
Maybe Q is right.
Rusty
The fish rots from the head.
Keith P
If I’m Mike Pompeo, I’m calling in sick tomorrow.
Adam L Silverman
@Keith P: 24 hour case of pseudo-rapture.
gwangung
JFC….she should be disowned from Asian Nation….
I mean, if any card carrying member were gonna fake something, it wouldn’t be such a halfass mess of easily disprovable lies
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman:
I believe that a Adam L Sliverman did.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That guy is making me look bad!
mrmoshpotato
@Sab:
Vetting? We’re running a mobster shitpile administration here, not a hospital for Fido!
Chetan Murthy
And he’s younger than you, too!
Marianne 19
But N Y Times says the GOP has a new star. I have no idea how to post the link with the new site. Sorry.
Adam L Silverman
@Marianne 19: It’s okay because the article is terrible and misleading too.
mrmoshpotato
@Adam L Silverman: Coo coo kah I’m so sick of this Soviet shitpile crime cartel.
Marianne19
@Marianne 19: Oops I meant that comment for the Stefanik post. I really need training wheels!
Steve in the ATL
I feel silly now about the fake Time cover I had printed up, but I was embarrassed because I was actually only on the cover of Newsweek
Jay
Jay
tokyokie
@mrmoshpotato:
Because I’m a modest sort, I haven’t been listing that one, although I claim that Bruno Ganz gave me the Iffland-Ring before he died.
Jay
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/18/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-spy-cables.html?login=facebook&auth=login-facebook
JaneE
Because it was a demo tape for her audition.
NotMax
So old can remember when the saying “D.C. is Hollywood for ugly people” just referred to being unattractive on the outside.
JaySinWA
So you were the one the radical priest came to get released?
Elizabelle
Have been following Dallas media on her. And, in a 2014 profile, she claimed to be a first responder in the Philippines. While battling brain cancer. I wonder if any of this is true.
Dallas Observer:Singer-Turned-Activist Mina Chang Now Faces the Biggest Challenge of Her Life
Elsewhere in the story:
I wonder if any of her story is true. Had a much longer comment, destroyed when the internet connection failed when I posted, but I wonder if she got away with this for so long because she was claiming experiences not easily verified, because the work she claimed took place overseas.
The Dallas community appears to have bought her story hook, line, and sinker. She was profiled in 2014 as a city resident to watch. She also spoke at a 2017 CEO conference sponsored by D magazine. Which now has a blogpost up, Mina Chang’s Pants Are On Fire.
chopper
she continued, “as I said by video conference from the space station when I accepted the Nobel peace prize from the pope, this is just what i do every. single. day.”
J R in WV
@Kay:
I had to read this several times to figure out what was being said, it’s so strange. “The Q People” are stranger than fiction, even magical realism fiction. Thanks for sharing this fantasy with us. And what actor could possibly pull off a Trump in real time? Can’t be done!
Elizabelle
@chopper: Her “fidelity to the truth” when the only reason she’s leaving is that her resume was a fabric of lie upon lie upon lie.
The balls on these people. And not in a good way!
Uncle Cosmo
@Kay: A remake of Dave where all the characters are recast as sonsofbitches?
@Adam L Silverman: I see that image of Goombah Ghouliani with the cellphone & I want someone to crawl up behind him & whisper in his ear, Black Jack on Red Queen…