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In reply to the discussion: Trump's personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany [View all]hatrack
(63,755 posts)If so, then WTF was she doing working for Shtstain in the first place?
Today we have yet another in the endless story of Trump White House dysfunction. President Trumps personal assistant was abruptly fired, translated into a separated employee after Trump learned that shed blabbed to the press about Trumps family. For good corporate measure, she was also barred from even entering the White House today. Again, yet more Trump nonsense.
But let me come at this from a different direction. We dont know just what these family details were. But a personal assistant to the President has access to the President, his family and many of their collective intimacies and legitimately private life. If she really shared truly personal details with the press that is a massive breach and I suspect it would lead to termination under any White House maybe not quite so jaggedly, with the equivalent of being escorted out of the building. But fired? Im pretty sure yes.
But theres another nugget that to me is the real story. Heres a paragraph from the Times piece yesterday breaking this story.
Ms. Westerhout, a former Republican National Committee aide who also worked for Mitt Romneys 2012 presidential campaign, reportedly cried on election night because she was upset over Mr. Trumps victory. As such, the president at first viewed her warily, as a late convert to his cause who could not be trusted.
In the Trump world and with the kind of access journalism it spawns, I never know quite what to believe, quite what to take at face value. But if this is more or less accurate its just astounding. In November, Westerhout not only wasnt a Trump loyalist she was apparently driven to tears when she learned hed be President. Shed worked for the RNC and the Romney campaign. So shes a professional Republican. But she holds Trump in such contempt that she still was driven to tears when he, the Republican nominee, won the presidency over Hillary Clinton?
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/getting-fired-aint-the-story
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But some of Mr. Trumps top officials like John F. Kelly, who has since left as chief of staff tried to turn Ms. Westerhout into an ally who could help them manage Oval Office traffic. They hoped that she could block individuals from reaching the president on the phone or in person, and that she would report back on the calls and meetings that made it through.
Ms. Westerhouts power in the White House came almost entirely from proximity. She is not a name-brand White House aide and has never appeared on television, unless it was an accidental shot of her hovering behind her boss. But while she was not a decision maker, she enjoyed unique access to Mr. Trump.
She also often shared snapshots on her private Instagram account of her life in the West Wing, including travel to rallies and Trump properties, and in one post she joked that she had been responsible for printing out a piece of paper that Mr. Trump held up and referred to at a public event.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/politics/trump-madeleine-westerhout.html
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