On Trump's second day in office, he fired Coast Guard Commander Linda Fagan, one of his first shots in his rebranded bigotry, racism, and misogyny, his 'war against DEI.' In Trump's mind, she was a woman in command of a branch of the armed services, so she clearly was unqualified.
When a commanding officer leaves a position, they are given a customary grace period to vacate the government housing they occupy. In this case, Coast Guard leaders had given her 60 days to find new housing.
That was until Trump demanded she be thrown out of the housing immediately. He had the acting director of Homeland Security call the Coast Guard directly and demand she leave her house in THREE HOURS! THREE HOURS!!!
And they even get more mean. She barely had time to pack her bags and had to leave her personal effects in the house to be moved later. That's when Sean Plankey, a DHS advisor, ordered her to leave her house unlocked and open so photographers could take photos of the property and her personal items. She insisted she did not authorize anyone to enter her home and left the doors locked and most of her personal items inside. It's unclear whether DHS opened the house and took photographs.
Were they planning on taking all of her stuff? Were they planning on having one of their militia groups storm the house? AT BEST, it sounds like they were going to photograph all of her personal belongings. And now that the story has become public, the DHS is insisting she was offered other housing, but apparently, that was never discussed until the public became aware of the vindictive eviction. They still have not explained what alternative housing she was "offered."
This is a third-world dictator level of petty.
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