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    1. Late on a Friday night in the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, Trump has fired Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general who insisted on telling lawmakers about the Ukraine scandal whistleblower complaints. w/ @maggieNYT @npfandos nytimes.com/2020/04/03/us/inspector-general-intelligence-fired.html
  1. …in reply to @charlie_savage
    Trump also announced a slew of IG nominations, incl making a White House aide the independent watchdog for $500 billion corporate relief fund & making a CBP policy official the DOD IG, which would oust the very independent Glenn Fine as chair of panel overseeing all pandemic $$$