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[[Barack Obama]] dismissed [[Corporation for National and Community Service]] inspector general [[Gerald Walpin]] citing a lack of confidence in him.<ref name=Kirby/> After Congress objected to his lack of explanation, the Obama administration cited that Walpin had shown "troubling and inappropriate conduct", and pointed to an incident that year when Walpin was "disoriented" during a board meeting of the corporation, because of which the board requested Walpin's dismissal.<ref name=Kirby/> Walpin sued for reinstatement, but the courts ruled against him.<ref name=Kirby/> | [[Barack Obama]] dismissed [[Corporation for National and Community Service]] inspector general [[Gerald Walpin]] citing a lack of confidence in him.<ref name=Kirby/> After Congress objected to his lack of explanation, the Obama administration cited that Walpin had shown "troubling and inappropriate conduct", and pointed to an incident that year when Walpin was "disoriented" during a board meeting of the corporation, because of which the board requested Walpin's dismissal.<ref name=Kirby/> Walpin sued for reinstatement, but the courts ruled against him.<ref name=Kirby/> | ||
In 2020, [[Donald Trump]] [[2020 dismissal of inspectors general|dismissed or replaced five inspectors general within six weeks]]. Two permanent inspectors general were dismissed and three acting inspectors general were replaced.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/|title=The internal watchdogs Trump has fired or replaced|last=Quinn|first=Melissa|date=May 19, 2020|publisher=[[CBS News]]|access-date=June 11, 2020}}</ref> Just after firing intelligence inspector general [[Michael Atkinson (Inspector General)|Michael Atkinson]], Trump criticized Atkinson as having done a "terrible job" and that he "took a fake report and he brought it to Congress", in reference to the whistleblower complaint of the [[Trump–Ukraine scandal]], which other testimony and evidence largely verified. Trump also described Atkinson as "not a big Trump fan".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Peter |title=Trump Proceeds With Post-Impeachment Purge Amid Pandemic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-post-impeachment-purge.html |access-date=April 24, 2020 |work= | In 2020, [[Donald Trump]] [[2020 dismissal of inspectors general|dismissed or replaced five inspectors general within six weeks]]. Two permanent inspectors general were dismissed and three acting inspectors general were replaced.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-inspectors-general-internal-watchdogs-fired-list/|title=The internal watchdogs Trump has fired or replaced|last=Quinn|first=Melissa|date=May 19, 2020|publisher=[[CBS News]]|access-date=June 11, 2020}}</ref> Just after firing intelligence inspector general [[Michael Atkinson (Inspector General)|Michael Atkinson]], Trump criticized Atkinson as having done a "terrible job" and that he "took a fake report and he brought it to Congress", in reference to the whistleblower complaint of the [[Trump–Ukraine scandal]], which other testimony and evidence largely verified. Trump also described Atkinson as "not a big Trump fan".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Peter |title=Trump Proceeds With Post-Impeachment Purge Amid Pandemic |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-post-impeachment-purge.html |access-date=April 24, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=April 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200405041817/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-post-impeachment-purge.html |archive-date=April 5, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Cook |first=Nancy |date=June 11, 2020 |title=Sideshow Don: Trump pursues a non-virus agenda |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/04/trump-non-coronavirus-agenda-165086 |work=[[Politico]] |access-date=April 24, 2020}}</ref> Around one month before Trump replaced Christi Grimm as acting health inspector general, he had called her report of shortages of medical supplies in American hospitals during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]] as "wrong", "fake", and "her opinion", despite the report being based on a survey of 323 hospitals. Trump also questioned Grimm's motives for the report.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stracqualursi |first=Veronica |date=May 2, 2020 |title=Trump names his pick for HHS inspector general after criticizing acting official over coronavirus report |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/02/politics/hhs-inspector-general-trump-nominee-jason-weida/index.html |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=June 11, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Robertson |first1=Lori |date=7 April 2020 |title=The HHS Inspector General Report |url=https://www.factcheck.org/2020/04/the-hhs-inspector-general-report/ |publisher=[[Factcheck.org]] |access-date=June 11, 2020}}</ref> | ||
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