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Those were among a list of 10 conditions that Kris Kobach, the former Kansas secretary of state, has given to the White House if he is to become the administrations immigration czar, a job President Trump has been looking to create to coordinate immigration policy across government agencies. The list was described by three people familiar with it.
Mr. Kobach, who once served as an adviser to the hard-line immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio and helped write an Arizona law requiring local officials to verify the citizenship of anyone they had reasonable suspicion to believe was an unauthorized immigrant, said he would need to be the main television spokesman for the Trump administration on immigration policy. And he said he wanted a guarantee that cabinet secretaries whose portfolios relate to immigration would defer to him, with the president mediating disputes if need be.
The list was submitted by Mr. Kobach in recent weeks as he discussed his interest in the job. Other conditions included having a staff of seven reporting to him, walk in privileges to the Oval Office, a security detail if deemed necessary and the title of assistant to the president.
He would need access to the jet, he said, for weekly visits to the border and travel back to Kansas on the weekends. The existence of the list has become known among officials in the Trump administration, some of whom were taken aback by what they regard as its presumptuousness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/20/us/politics/kris-kobach-trump.html
Kali
(55,042 posts)or vomit in disgust?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Wow, there's some real objective reporting! As if anyone looking over that list couldn't draw the same (or worse) conclusion than that it is "presumptuous." But news reporters have to be ultra careful characterizing Republican bullshit, and always - Always! - attribute any conclusory language to some unnamed officials or other apocryphal third party.
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,586 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)'cause I don't see rump jumping through all those hoops for him...particularly after they've been made public.
to whoever objected to the presumption and leaked it
Mc Mike
(9,118 posts)Obviously top shelf talent. You have to pay big for that, lotta perks, etc.
Gothmog
(146,198 posts)spanone
(136,006 posts)who the fuck does this guy think he is?
hatrack
(59,612 posts)Hiring somebody who couldn't come within 5 points of his Democratic opponent doesn't come cheap.
lpbk2713
(42,784 posts)... and you'll see his picture.
Tripper11
(4,338 posts)Gothmog
(146,198 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,221 posts)This is the kind of list I'd submit if I didn't really want the job.
nuxvomica
(12,486 posts)I'm surprise he doesn't specify the brand and amount of spring water, and two pounds of stuffed olives with the pimentos removed.
Ilsa
(61,721 posts)KK wants to form a troika, with shared powers of the president.
11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)Krissie hates brown people and other brown stuff!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)And I want a gazillion dollars deposited into my bank account, a castle made out of diamonds and a pink unicorn.
What an arrogant prick!
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)and we are glad he and brownstain are GONE from our fair state
unc70
(6,135 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)via leak to the Times, he's not getting the job. He should have stuck with the plane, the salary, and the nomination. The Trump-time bullshit, and access to the spotlight are where he lost his head.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)nt
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