Trump’s scandal-ridden Labor Secretary resigns after misconduct allegations
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s exit marks third high-profile departure from Trump administration in recent weeks

Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s exit marks third high-profile departure from Trump administration in recent weeks

Donald Trump’s Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned in the wake of allegations of misconduct in office, marking the third high-profile departure from the president’s Cabinet within recent weeks.

Inquiries into complaints about her leadership — alleging abuses of her position’s power, having an affair with a subordinate and drinking alcohol on the job — have also forced out at least four other officials within the nation’s labor agency, including her former chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, among others.

Another staffer was fired late last month after she sat for a four-hour interview with the department’s inspector general.

  • disorderly@lemmy.world
    32·
    22 days ago

    I just love that there are multiple people in Trump’s administration who are credibly accused of “drinking and misconduct” so you need to actually read their names and titles to know which one got canned on any given day.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    6·
    22 days ago

    Chavez-DeRemer’s resignation on Monday was not announced by Trump, who had previously delivered news of his ousting of Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem. Instead, the announcement came from White House Assistant Director of Communications Steven Cheung.

    The greatest indignity possible.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
    4·
    21 days ago

    I’m not surprised his secretaries keep leaving in disgrace, but I am surprised at how much it just keeps being alcohol and sex with subordinates.

    Like, seriously, I’m a hobag, but I don’t shit where I eat. How do people make these choices‽

    • booly@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      21 days ago

      This particular scandal was worse than you think. It wasn’t just that she was suspected of sleeping with her bodyguard, but it’s that she was abusing her position to make young female staffers communicate work stuff through her father or through her husband (neither of whom were government employees) so that they could sexually harass them. It’s fucked up.

      If it were just shitting where she ate, it wouldn’t even register in this administration. This was worse.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      22 days ago

      Pretty sure being a hardcore alcoholic is just about the only way to handle being stuck in Trump’s presence constantly. Either that or you gotta start doing ketamine like Elon.