Opinion | Why Trump's baffling inability to fire people is a key part of his impeachment

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Opinion | Why Trump's baffling inability to fire people is a key part of his impeachment
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Opinion | Suzanne Garment: Why President Trump's baffling inability to fire people is a key part of his impeachment. - NBCNewsTHINK

Let’s examine what was actually in play here. The people around Trump who were U.S. government officials clearly knew that firing a properly functioning U.S. ambassador would, to use the technical term, create a stink — which would translate into personal risk for them. That was likely even before the various complications posed by State Department rules, not to mention the mainstream media.

. In those days before burner phones, you had to make your hush money calls from street-corner phone booths. As Ulasewicz explained it, he had so many calls to make that he equipped himself with a bus driver’s coin changer to dispense all the quarters he needed.

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