'None of this is surprising or unprecedented and the statements by former Trump officials are no more than unseemly political grousing — in the service of nothing more than trying to undermine the President of the United States' | Joe Lockhart, CNNOpinion
Joe Lockhart is a CNN political analyst. He was the White House press secretary from 1998 to 2000 in President Bill Clinton's administration. He cohosts the podcast"Words Matter." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN.
We're shocked. The Biden administration is removing a group of Trump appointees from their ceremonial positions on the advisory boards of the military service academies. Joe LockhartIf you believe the outraged whining on social media from people like Trump's former senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, who was one of those told to resign, it was an egregious act. She called Biden's actions"petty and political, if not personal."She and others of the Trump appointees are blasting the President's actions, which the administration addressed Wednesday, as an unseemly act of political vengeance, both unjust and unexpected.On the contrary.
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