Eric Trump's Brother-In-Law Is The New Deputy NASA Chief Of Staff. Seriously.
Kyle Yunaska Named Deputy Chief of Staff At NASA Headquarters
“NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has named Kyle Yunaska as the agency’s Deputy Chief of Staff. … Yunaska also served as the Principal Deputy Director and Chief of Staff for DOE’s Office of Policy and held several advisory roles throughout the Department. Prior to his work at DOE, Yunaska held a range of positions at various academic, nonprofit, and private sector organizations.”
Eric Trump’s brother-in-law gets promoted. E&E News (2017)
“Eric Trump’s brother-in-law is now chief of staff in a Department of Energy policy shop that was once tasked with carrying out President Obama’s climate change agenda, according to DOE’s online registry. Kyle Yunaska at DOE’s Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis (EPSA) may manage the front office operations and strategy and advise EPSA’s principal deputy director, Carol Battershell, and Executive Director Sean Cunningham, according to a description of the position on DOE’s website.”
Meet The Hottest Bachelors Of Washington D.C., Inside Edition
“Kyle Yunaska is an accounting manager for a non-profit. The 29-year-old is ready to settle down.”
Kyle Robert Yunaska, ProPublica
The first rule of ethics training is to avoid the appearance of impropriety. This is the opposite of that. Do better.
trump and ethics .. two words never seen together.
Only the best people.
I have gained an instinctual understanding of the phrase
“I didn’t know whether to laugh, or to cry’.
Other terms that have become visceral: disheartening, and dismay.
Nepotism.
That solved the DOE’s problem.
And what if he does succeed? You can’t say “Ahh nepotism! He will fail!” What if he doesn’t? Maybe he is the best one for the job. Maybe the first stage of rockets CAN return safely to the Earth too.
Trump has tried many times people with no expertise who are supposed to outperform real experts through common sense. It has not turned out well.
How do you hire people to fill positions you don’t understand? For jobs you just ‘know’ represent a flabby federal government?
And the two things have as much to do with one another as floor wax and dessert toppings.
You can certainly say, “Ah, nepotism!” in this case. It doesn’t matter if he does a good job or not, that is not what nepotism is about. It is about, how did he get the job? Did he go through the normal vetting process? Was there a talent search to fill that particular vacancy, and was he the best qualified? Or instead, did Bridenstine decide that it was in the best interests of NASA and his own position of influence to hire this POTUS family-connected person to a position that will not be particularly harmful if he is totally incompetent (which he probably isn’t), and may be beneficial to his own power base (otherwise known as brownie points with POTUS) so he can achieve what he wants to do. That is the essence of nepotism.
Bridenstine had no say in this. The White House told him that Kyle was coming over to NASA. He had no option except to say yes. This happens all the time with all Administrations.
Only so blatant in recent years. I was in DoD and DoE back in the days of GHW Bush and before. Yes, there were WH agents put in Schedule C jobs here and there to help assure nothing was done to embarrass the WH, but never in technically demanding posts. Higher executive posts, including any rank with the term ‘Secretary’ in the job title often went to people out of their depth, but their role was policy and the lower orders mapped out the technicalities of implementing the policy. It’s difficult to know how much Yunaska will interface with space scientists and really screw up.
I hope he DOES succeed, as I do for the President.
Grifters, all of them.
I eagerly await the comments of the usual apologists.
Quid Pro Quo
No comment from Dr. Matula? MagaKen?
What is there to do a comment on other than it shows the importance President Trump puts on space to give his son’s brother-in-law the job. He could have put him at another less visible government agency. But it is still bad form to do so.
Placing this guy at NASA is an indication of how important space is to the President – that’s how you see this? (I can’t see to find a cv)
We’re gonna need a bigger swamp
Now THAT’S funny!
Looks to me like he has a lot of positive experience over many years. Maybe it will help to have a direct line to the President? Together with Bridenstine maybe they can get us back to the Moon?
check the last link. Resume?
It only seems to show the last job-about 2 years.
Oh, you mean he’s meant as a mole to find out if anyone is letting reality seep into discussions of the likely earliest dates for new bootprints on the Moon — and rat on them to the Tweeter-in-Chief?
Maybe Trump is worried that his Administration went to great lengths to get Mr. Loverro engaged and then Loverro left after only six months. Seems like maybe someone needs to keep an eye on things.
The eye is pointed in the wrong direction; they should look to themselves and not to NASA.
Ah, the old “Yes, but….” irrelevant comment.
But I should correct that. The Politico hatchet piece does admit that, “Obama has hewed to a course reminiscent of his own political pedigree, a mix of Chicago and Harvard, where merit is a must but connections help, too.”
Can you produce any evidence that Mr. Yunaska had many merit other than his relations by marriage?
Six degrees of separation throughout this entire crime syndicate of an administration.
How much can be embezzled from the NASA budget?
Why can’t you folks get Obama out of your head? We all know DJT has done everything he can to destroy Obama’s legacy. The proof is in the pudding.