One of the inspectors -general fired at the end of Friday by President Donald Trump shared the brutal way in which he heard that he was out of a job.
Mark Greenblatt was one of the more than a dozen inspectors -general who were extracted by the president on the way to the weekend.
The move brought alarms to Trump critics who warned that independent supervision of multiple government agencies is eliminating while the president is moving to install loyalists across the board for his second term.
Greenblatt was the inspector general of the domestic department, which was served since he was appointed by Trump during his first term in 2019.
He revealed on Monday that he heard that he was fired when he received an e -mail.
“So Friday night I received an e -mail on my work telephone, and I checked it, and there was a mentioned report of the White House, and I knew that couldn't be good,” said Greenblatt on Monday in an interview with CNN.
Mark Greenblatt was one of the more than a dozen inspectors general who were fired by President Trump on Friday. He told CNN that he heard that he was being fired from an e -mail sent at 7:30 PM. He called the move 'disturbing' while Trump critics sound the alarm about the president who purifies independent supervision for less than a week in his second term
Greenblatt said the e -mail came in at 7:30 PM and contained only two penalties from the director of presidential staff.
It stated that he was ended in the light of changing priorities from the position that immediately came into force.
Greenblatt noted that he knew it wasn't good news before he even opened the e -mail, because the president also removed two inspectors -general on Friday evening during the first Trump period.
He said he didn't even know how to get his things from the office, because his e -mail was also cut off.
Greenblatt said he did not know why he was on the list of inspectors generally fired and the only reason he got was the “changing priorities” indicated in the E -mail.
“As far as I know, we all essentially received the same e -mail that said that changing priorities,” said Greenblatt about the 18 fired.
“We do honestly, objectively, independent supervision,” said Greenblatt. “I have been doing that for five and a half years, and I am very proud of the work that my team did as an inspector general during my term of office.”
Greenblatt warned that the removal of inspectors -general is 'disturbing'.
“These deletions must send alarm bells for a number of different reasons, but in my opinion the primary is the independence of these positions,” he said CNN.
“The entire construction of inspectors -general, it is based on the fact that we are independent that we are not obliged to be at a political party of a line,” said Greenblatt.
President Trump did not give the Congress the required 30-day notification before he fired at least 18 Inspector General on Friday evening
Inspectors general are civil servants who serve as independent watchdogs of the government in charge of investigating countless agencies for waste, fraud and abuse of power.
Greenblatt described his role as the representative of the 'taxpayers' within the Ministry of the Interior'.
He raised questions whether the president would nominate Waakhonden or 'Lapdogs'.
Trump defended the fire on Saturday and told reporters 'it is very common' and suggested that some of them were 'unfair'.
He did not say how he would fill the positions in the future or with whom.
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Other inspectors General Raised were those who supervised the Defense departments, State, Transport, Energy, Trade and Agriculture as well as The Environmental Protection Agency, Small Business Administration and Social Security Administration.
“It is a brutal attempt to set up these offices to look the other way when violations of the law take place,” warned Senator Dick Durbin (D-Onlinois) in a statement after the purification.
Democratic legislators during the weekend also beat the 78-year-old before violating the law that requires the president to give the congress for 30 days of cancellation period before removing an Inspector General.
But Republicans indicated that they thought it was good that he violated the law that needed notification.
“I'm not worried about that,” Senator Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) told Meet the Press.
“It is not the first time that people enter and put their team in,” he claimed.
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