I'll take "what is grabbed by the pussy?" for 100$ Alex https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/29/us/politics/trump-madeleine-westerhout.html Trump’s Personal Assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, Steps Down Madeleine Westerhout, the president’s personal assistant, was said to have indiscreetly shared details about the president’s family and the Oval Office operations she was part of during a recent off-the-record dinner with journalists. Ms. Westerhout, a former Republican National Committee aide who also worked for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, reportedly cried on election night because she was upset over Mr. Trump’s victory. As such, the president at first viewed her warily, as a late convert to his cause who could not be trusted. But some of Mr. Trump’s 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.
Are you insinuating Trump sexually harassed or inappropriately touched her or is that just more snark? Seems to me the woman was hired for a job that required discretion. Since she was unable to provide this discretion, she had to go.
Never heard of her but she probably has plenty of gossip. Thus, she is well on her way to becoming a CNN contributor or writer of a big explosive anonymous letters to the New York Times or the Post "from a high official within the Trump Administration." Where "high official" is defined as "glorified walmart greeter."
Think it was her that wrote this? I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration I work for the president but like-minded colleagues and I have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. Sept. 5, 2018 The Times is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers. We invite you to submit a question about the essay or our vetting process here. [Update: Our answers to some of those questions are published here.] President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader. It’s not just that the special counsel looms large. Or that the country is bitterly divided over Mr. Trump’s leadership. Or even that his party might well lose the House to an opposition hellbent on his downfall. The dilemma — which he does not fully grasp — is that many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. I would know. I am one of them. To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous. But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues to act in a manner that is detrimental to the health of our republic. That is why many Trump appointees have vowed to do what we can to preserve our democratic institutions while thwarting Mr. Trump’s more misguided impulses until he is out of office. The root of the problem is the president’s amorality. Anyone who works with him knows he is not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making. Although he was elected as a Republican, the president shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people. At best, he has invoked these ideals in scripted settings. At worst, he has attacked them outright. In addition to his mass-marketing of the notion that the press is the “enemy of the people,” President Trump’s impulses are generally anti-trade and anti-democratic. Don’t get me wrong. There are bright spots that the near-ceaseless negative coverage of the administration fails to capture: effective deregulation, historic tax reform, a more robust military and more. But these successes have come despite — not because of — the president’s leadership style, which is impetuous, adversarial, petty and ineffective. From the White House to executive branch departments and agencies, senior officials will privately admit their daily disbelief at the commander in chief’s comments and actions. Most are working to insulate their operations from his whims. Meetings with him veer off topic and off the rails, he engages in repetitive rants, and his impulsiveness results in half-baked, ill-informed and occasionally reckless decisions that have to be walked back. “There is literally no telling whether he might change his mind from one minute to the next,” a top official complained to me recently, exasperated by an Oval Office meeting at which the president flip-flopped on a major policy decision he’d made only a week earlier. The erratic behavior would be more concerning if it weren’t for unsung heroes in and around the White House. Some of his aides have been cast as villains by the media. But in private, they have gone to great lengths to keep bad decisions contained to the West Wing, though they are clearly not always successful. It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t. The result is a two-track presidency. Take foreign policy: In public and in private, President Trump shows a preference for autocrats and dictators, such as President Vladimir Putin of Russia and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, and displays little genuine appreciation for the ties that bind us to allied, like-minded nations. Astute observers have noted, though, that the rest of the administration is operating on another track, one where countries like Russia are called out for meddling and punished accordingly, and where allies around the world are engaged as peers rather than ridiculed as rivals. On Russia, for instance, the president was reluctant to expel so many of Mr. Putin’s spies as punishment for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain. He complained for weeks about senior staff members letting him get boxed into further confrontation with Russia, and he expressed frustration that the United States continued to impose sanctions on the country for its malign behavior. But his national security team knew better — such actions had to be taken, to hold Moscow accountable. This isn’t the work of the so-called deep state. It’s the work of the steady state. Given the instability many witnessed, there were early whispers within the cabinet of invoking the 25th Amendment, which would start a complex process for removing the president. But no one wanted to precipitate a constitutional crisis. So we will do what we can to steer the administration in the right direction until — one way or another — it’s over. The bigger concern is not what Mr. Trump has done to the presidency but rather what we as a nation have allowed him to do to us. We have sunk low with him and allowed our discourse to be stripped of civility. All Americans should heed his words and break free of the tribalism trap, with the high aim of uniting through our shared values and love of this great nation We may no longer have Senator McCain. But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue. Mr. Trump may fear such honorable men, but we should revere them. There is a quiet resistance within the administration of people choosing to put country first. But the real difference will be made by everyday citizens rising above politics, reaching across the aisle and resolving to shed the labels in favor of a single one: Americans. The writer is a senior official in the Trump administration.
Yep. A prime example of piss-poor reporting. A massive response and distribution of the letter from leftyville to tardville but no real investigative work to uncover the identity of the person who wrote it, which is the real story. Such is the nature of the lefty media. We have another prime example right as we speak. The lefty Washington Post just slammed the shiite out of Joe Biden and developed and disseminated the story about his phony war recollections. They didnt have to do that and they dont objectively cover both sides and all candidates. The real story is that the Washington Post has decided that they are not going to make Joe president and are beginning to get on with it. That little development is a much worse sign for him than their reporting of the gaff of the day.
If you have a free market and other countries are not, then you are at a disadvantage. Always go for fair trade. If you are the only one practicing free trade, then you are doomed. If you have made a decision a week earlier based on the information that you have at that time, and a week later when you receive new information which requires you to change your made decision, do you still hold to your previous decision or change your decision based on the new information? Common sense. This article is heavily opinionated without any examples or evidence. Anyone could come up with a story like this.
The other thing that comes into play is that there is no honor among thieves when it comes to the lefty media and a president or party that is not represented by their PACS - ie. CNN, MSNBC. They self-regulate when someone says something that would piss Obama off for example. And there is a certain code of ethic that if you are allowed up close and personal that you self-regulate a bit and don't stick something up someone's arse just because they dont say it is off record each and every time. A classic example of this occurred a few months ago, when Trump invited/allowed Obama-Clinton bootlicker George Staphalococcus into the Oval Office. Mulvaney was there- I think it was Mulvaney- and kept coughing during the interview so Trump told him to basically knock it off or get the fuck out. Well, guess what appeared on the news that day - the only thing that Stapho seized upon was that little episode. Almost every honorable or old school journalist of either the lefty or right persuasion knows that that was a cheap, cheap fucking shot and an abuse of his access to the Oval Office. What was Trump thinking anyway, to not see that upfront- in regard to that warmed-over turd. So yeh, I see the little wise-cracks about Trump not having the best the best people. But let me throw out the little factoid that white house staff of yesteryear did not have to deal with the lefty trash of today and should never-ever assume that civility prevails based on any inner sense of ethic they have- or rather don't have. For another clear example of this, refer to the collapse of the White House Correspondent's dinner. Anything that depends on the press to self-regulate as far as the depth to which they will go is doomed. There is no bottom. Lefty trash.