One of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s senior aides was just fired after several members of her staff threatened to quit over her “abusive” management style.
Kiron Skinner was informed yesterday while she was on a trip to China that she was being ousted from her position as director of the agency’s Policy Planning Staff.
Politico reports that Skinner was let go because of “her ‘abusive’ management style, including making homophobic remarks and accusing people of having affairs.”
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Two other State Department officials said Skinner acted unprofessionally in multiple ways, including yelling in public spaces and using homophobic language. She retaliated against employees by kicking them out of their offices and even alleged that some people were having affairs, the two officials said.
Sounds like a nightmare.
Skinner, who was one of the few African American members of the Trump administration, was hired last year by Pompeo, who described her at the time as “a national security powerhouse” and “a one-woman, strategic thinking tour de force.”
But, according to the people who worked under her, she was such a terrible boss and micromanager that almost a third of her staff quit or transferred to other positions within months of her taking charge and another five recently threatened to leave if she wasn’t immediately let go.
In addition to allegedly mistreating her staff, Skinner, who has authored several glowing books about racist president Ronald Reagan, was also in charge of overseeing the Commission on Unalienable Rights, which investigated U.S. human rights polices.
The commission has drawn fierce opposition from human rights activists who say it has been designed to chip away at the rights of women and LGBTQ people.
Neither the State Department nor Skinner have released any comment over her firing.
Rex Huskey
angry black woman
RevJames
Dumb ass white guy.
WashDrySpin
Pence’s office deals with homophobia…she forgot to stay in her lane…
boymikefl
You mean Mike Pence’s office IS homophobic. Homophobia is a prerequisite. Didn’t pass the White Supremacist pre-interview. Bye Felicia.
Vince
Why can’t they find any normal black folks to work for them? It’s one thing to work for this administration as someone white. To be black you gotta have some serious issues.
dinard38
As an African-American man, every time I see a black person supporting that clown in the Oval office, it makes me cringe. I mean, it’s like Jews supporting Hitler. The man doesn’t give a damn about minorities, and it’s pretty damn obvious.
Kangol2
She looks a bit bonkers, so I’m not surprised she wrote books praising Reagan and was a Pompeo/Drumpf administration hire.
dinard38
Haha. Yeah, she does look bonkers. If she’s that homophobic, she’s probably a religious fanatic. I’ve seen her type many times over. She’s a Christian and she’s “saved”. But those saved Christians can be really nasty and gossipy, like this goofball seems to be.
Good riddance!!
surfpenis
F*k that nasty c*nt.
Yooper
Thank you. Exact.
nitejonboy
Can we leave her in China ???
James
GOOD RIDDANCE TO THAT MONSTER.