Trump Staff Picks, Co-Conspirators and the Revolving Door of Departures

[KaraBulut]

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Um... does Larry Kudlow always slur his words?

 

[KaraBulut]

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Details are leaking out about why Madeleine Westerhout, Trump's personal assistant, was fired...

Trump's personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany [Politico]

Madeleine Westerhout, who left her White House job suddenly on Thursday as President Trump’s personal assistant, was fired after bragging to reporters that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, and that the president did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he perceived her as overweight.

 

[gsdx]

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^ That thing about Tiffany doesn't surprise me one little bit. Can you imagine how she must feel knowing she's not Daddy's 'type'?

 

[KaraBulut]

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^ That thing about Tiffany doesn't surprise me one little bit. Can you imagine how she must feel knowing she's not Daddy's 'type'?

Oh dear...

What Trump sees...

 

[smokeshadow]

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Details are leaking out about why Madeleine Westerhout, Trump's personal assistant, was fired...

Trump's personal assistant fired after comments about Ivanka, Tiffany [Politico]

Remaining staffers are concerned about what else she might reveal, as they're not sure she signed an NDA

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmoveme...nal-assistant-may-spill-more-serious-secrets/

 

[KaraBulut]

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Remaining staffers are concerned about what else she might reveal, as they're not sure she signed an NDA

Not the only ones worried...
'I love Tiffany': Donald Trump defends daughter after Madeleine Westerhout ousted from White House [CNN]

"While Madeleine Westerhout has a fully enforceable confidentiality agreement, she is a very good person and I don't think there would ever be reason to use it," Trump tweeted Saturday morning. "She called me yesterday to apologize, had a bad night. I fully understand and forgave her! I love Tiffany, doing great!" Trump made a similar comment to reporters Friday about his daughter as he departed for Camp David.

 

[rareboy]

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I just wish that Tiffany didn't have an NDA.

 

[KaraBulut]

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I just wish that Tiffany didn't have an NDA.

I suspect that there are several First Amendment attorneys willing to represent her.

 

[frankfrank]

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I just wish that Tiffany didn't have an NDA.

If he says she does, there's a good chance it's fake news, which is about the only thing that ever comes out of his piehole.

 

[KaraBulut]

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If he says she does, there's a good chance it's fake news, which is about the only thing that ever comes out of his piehole.

I can't say that this particular employee has an NDA but this issue came up during the Michael Cohen testimony during Congressional hearings.

Trump is notorious for using NDAs in his private business to silence people that he has done business with. During the 2016 campaign, he also tried to get campaign employees to sign NDAs. He continued to pressure White House staffers to sign NDAs after the election, which creates yet another complication because once these people became Federal employees, they were subject to Federal laws that may conflict with the NDA.

House Dems introduce bill to protect Trump admin whistleblowers with NDAs [The Hill]

House Democrats introduced a bill Monday to ensure White House staffers can come forward and report “wrongdoing” from inside the administration even if they are subject to a nondisclosure agreement (NDA).

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) filed the legislation in response to testimony last week from President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, who said it was common practice in the Trump campaign and White House to have staffers sign NDAs. Reports have also surfaced in recent months saying signing NDAs was often a prerequisite for employment.

Trump has tweeted at several former employees who have left the administration with implied threats about their NDAs. However, since he's notoriously cheap and he doesn't have Michael Cohen around to make threats, there's no indication that he's pursued any actual legal action against these former employees who, it could be argued, are exercising their First Amendment right to free speech.

 

[Dystopian]

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Hmmmm. P. Brennan Hart III turns out to be a drunken sex addict playing with a White House Staffer in the GSA Building....office, roof, bj's all around. The gender of the White House Staffer seems intentionally vague. This also goes to prove unequivocally that if you can't get laid in the Trump Administration, you're not breathing




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[KaraBulut]

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Refilling the swamp... and destroying the Alaskan wilderness...

Trump Interior Official Who Pushed Arctic Drilling Joins Oil Company In Alaska [NPR]

A top U.S. Department of the Interior appointee who pushed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil leasing is taking a job with an oil company seeking to develop a major project in Alaska.

Joe Balash, an assistant secretary at the department who oversaw the Bureau of Land Management, left his job last week. On Wednesday he announced his new position as senior vice president for external affairs with Oil Search, a Papua New Guinea-based company that first expanded into Alaska in 2017.

 

[KaraBulut]

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Peace in the Middle East. Mission accomplished?

Trump's envoy for Middle East, architect of peace plan set to leave post [The Hill]

President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East and an architect of the administration's long-awaited peace plan for the region is leaving the White House, a senior official confirmed to The Hill on Thursday.

Jason Greenblatt will depart the administration in the coming weeks to return to New Jersey, where his wife and six kids reside, the official said. His exit had been discussed at the end of 2018, and the administration began taking steps to transition oversight of the peace plan.

Trump's special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, will assume some of the responsibilities of handling the Middle East peace process, according to the administration official. Avi Berkowitz, a top aide to senior White House adviser Jared Kushner, will also play a more prominent role.

Prior to this role, Mr Greenblatt's primary qualification was that he was the executive vice president and chief legal officer to Donald Trump and The Trump Organization. Thankfully, he didn't have to marry Tiffany to get the job.

 

[rareboy]

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Didn't Jared school the Middle East about all of this and clear up the pesky Middle East Peace problem?

I suspect that the only thing that Israel ever cared about was the US moving the embassy to Jerusalem and making sure that all that dole keeps rolling in.

 

[KaraBulut]

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I suspect that the only thing that Israel ever cared about was the US moving the embassy to Jerusalem and making sure that all that dole keeps rolling in.

Unfortunately, the Palestinians do care that the "neutral zone" of Jerusalem now hosts the U.S. embassy.

Right before the Trump family vacation in Buckingham Palace, there was an interview that Jared did in Bahrain. I remember thinking, "WTF is Kushner doing in Bahrain?".

Seems that Jared decided to have a "Palestinian Economic Summit". The Palestinians didn't attend. Trump cut aid to the Palestinians before the conference. That didn't win "hearts and minds", nor pocketbooks.

Palestinian snub of Kushner's conference highlights failure of admin's outreach effort [CNN]


His friend Sheldon, however, got to go to Jerusalem for the embassy opening, though.

 

[KaraBulut]

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Adventures in Mini-Me and bringing peace to the Middle East...

Can Jared’s millennial ‘mini-me’ bring peace to the Middle East [Politico]

Before his promotion this week to a leading role in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, 30-year-old Avi Berkowitz filled a number of odd jobs in the West Wing. They have included shepherding distinguished visitors — the likes of Kim Kardashian, Jeff Bezos, Sheldon Adelson — around the White House, and hanging onto Jared Kushner’s phone while Kushner is in meetings, a duty that sometimes had Berkowitz responding to messages on his boss’ behalf.

“There are times when people think they’re texting with Jared, but they’re actually texting with Avi,” said one former White House official, who recalled thinking, “Holy crap” when witnessing Berkowitz reading an incoming message from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman on Kushner’s phone. (Berkowitz and Kushner dispute this. “I have never texted anyone from Jared’s phone nor do I read his messages,” said Berkowitz. “Anyone who says otherwise is mistaken.”)

 

[TX-Beau]

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Oh God, there's another one. So, two Jewish dweebs are going to make all those Arabs behave?

 

[gsdx]

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Adventures in Mini-Me and bring peace to the Middle East...

So, Avi used to be Jared's coffee boy before his promotion. Not only does Jared like them short, he likes his coffee with cream.

 

[rareboy]

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This is beyond pathetic.

 

[rareboy]

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Ima gonna sleep better tonight knowing that Bolton has been removed from any position of influence.

I'd love to know what finally got him turfed before he could start a 3rd World War...probably his moustache....but hopefully this finally, once and for all, sidelines him.

President Trump fired John R. Bolton, his third national security adviser, on Tuesday amid fundamental disagreements over how to handle major foreign policy challenges like Iran, North Korea and Afghanistan.

...“I informed John Bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the White House. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the Administration, and therefore I asked John for his resignation, which was given to me this morning..." Trump tweeted this morining. I'm surprised he didn't just fire Bolton by tweet.

Churn.....churn...churn....it is one of the moments that I am glad...along with Putin and Kim and the Ayatollahs...that the US has a feckless and capricious foreign affairs policy.