re: #208 Belafon

Early on, Biden removed a number of people that were quickly appointed to the DoD, including, IIRC, Dinesh de Snooza.

The Secret Service is part of the Executive Branch and the president has the power to fire them, so I don’t understand how Tony Ornato still has a highly-placed job.

wapo.st

The Secret Service also took the unprecedented step of allowing the former detail leader to temporarily leave his job to become a White House political adviser. Anthony Ornato was hired as White House deputy chief of staff earlier this year. In that role, he helped coordinate a controversial June photo opportunity in which Trump strode defiantly across Lafayette Square to pose with a Bible after the park was forcibly cleared of peaceful protesters.

Ornato also helped coordinate numerous rallies across the country during the pandemic, per Trump’s wishes. The mass gatherings were blamed for increasing the spread of the coronavirus in some of the communities where they took place and left many in the ranks of the Secret Service infected or exposed.