Start your day with the stories that matter from Axios by Mike Allen, the world's most-wired reporter. I'd like to suggest some of this salve it's DJT approved.Sign up for the newsletter and many more: It sure seems that butthurt is raging among the right-wing on NT. I'm not worried about Biden's plans for Syria, but it sure seems that you are or you're using a self-serving comment to try and prove a useless point. Yes, he is leaving as the American public voted him out yet here he is filing lawsuits claiming the election was stolen from him which is proving to be nothing more than his usual bullshit. I never thought of Trump as a boogeyman, more of a petulant child with a bad habit of lying. It could make a difference in the case of our security or dealing with the pandemic little things like that but toddlers don't worry about adult things. Yes, of course, he can make any changes in the administration he wants, much like a toddler can throw a tantrum anytime it wants.

Don't worry, the left's boogey man is leaving.

The butt clenching from the left over every single damn action from Trump is ridiculous. He can change his administration any way he wants to up until that time and it won't make one damn bit of difference. Who gives a fuck? Really, Trump has less than 2 months in his presidency. The Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for intelligence was also forced to resign and replaced with Ezra Cohen-Watnick, another former NSC staffer and Trump loyalist.

Trump officials named Kash Patel, another former aide to Devin Nunes, as chief of staff to the secretary of defense.Anderson was replaced by Anthony Tata, an administration loyalist who was denied the job earlier this year after his prior bigoted comments came to light. The Pentagon's top policy official, James Anderson, resigned in anticipation of being fired by Trump.Trump named Michael Ellis, a former aide to House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, who most recently served as the NSC official in charge of intelligence programs, general counsel of the National Security Agency.

Christopher Miller, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, replaced Mark Esper as active secretary of Defense, after Trump clashed with Esper over a number of issues since the summer.

The big picture: Krebs' firing signals that Trump continues to feel unshackled in the post-election period to punish officials he views as disloyal, even if it's at the expense of his own administration's morale and ability to function. Our thought bubble: Krebs is a universally respected figure even in the notoriously fractious world of cybersecurity and information security, notes Zach Dorfman, author of Axios' Codebook newsletter. Reuters recently reported he expected to be fired after he pushed back against false claims that Democrats 'rigged' the election, a claim that Trump has heavily promoted. Why it matters: Krebs, who is responsible for securing voting technology, has drawn bipartisan praise for his handling of the election and debunking of misinformation. President Trump announced on Twitter Tuesday night that Christopher Krebs, the head of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, had been fired effective immediately.

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