Boris Epshteyn, who pushes Trumps message out on the airwaves, has offended network bookers and co

[riversedge]

Another snot in the WH who is too big for his britches!!




White House official terrorizes network green rooms

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/boris-epshteyn-television-networks-behavior-235787

Boris Epshteyn, who pushes Trump’s message out on the airwaves, has offended network bookers and contributors across Washington.

By Annie Karni

03/07/17 04:29 PM EST




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Boris Epshteyn’s rise to a position of prominence in the Trump White House reveals how the president has rewarded his loyalists. | AP Photo



By Peter York

White House official Boris Epshteyn, a combative Trump loyalist tasked with plugging the president’s message on television, threatened earlier this year to pull all West Wing officials from appearing on Fox News after a tense appearance on anchor Bill Hemmer’s show.

Epshteyn, according to multiple sources familiar with the exchange, got in a yelling match with a Fox News booker after Hemmer pressed him for details of President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order cracking down on immigration from Muslim-majority countries — a topic he was not expecting to be grilled on.

“Am I someone you want to make angry?” Epshteyn told the booker, the sources said. When he threatened to pull White House officials from the network, the fed-up booker had had enough.

“Go right ahead,” the booker fired back, the sources said, aware that Epshteyn had no power to follow through on a threat that would have upended the administration’s relationship with a sympathetic news network.

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Epshteyn’s official job is to oversee White House officials who appear on television to speak on behalf of the administration, and defend and explain Trump on TV himself. In recent weeks, he has been aligned with counselor Kellyanne Conway in pushing the administration to use Cabinet secretaries to talk about policies on television, and reduce the on-air profiles of White House staffers................................

[Renew Deal]

1. "Boris Epshteyn is a Russian-born American Republican strategist" that denies Russia siezed Crimea

"Boris Epshteyn (born 1982) is a Russian-born American Republican political strategist, investment banker, and attorney."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Epshteyn

And there’s also Boris Epshteyn, a Trump surrogate who frequently appears on television and describes himself as a senior adviser to the campaign. The Russia-born investment banker and attorney moderated a panel at an October 2013 conference in New York City called “Invest in Moscow!” The panel was mainly comprised of Moscow city government officials, like Sergey Cheremin, a city minister who heads Moscow’s foreign economic and international relations department.

While business transactions may seem innocuous in and of themselves, getting the full picture of Trump confidantes’ investments in Russia could provide essential information about his potential political conflicts of interest.

“In Russia, where business and the state are so closely linked, business dealings automatically imply ties to people high up in government as well,” said Kathryn Stoner, an expert in U.S.-Russia relations at Stanford University.

In keeping with that pattern, Epshteyn has adopted some of the Russian government’s narrative about its annexation of Crimea, Ukraine’s southern peninsula, in 2014. The international community does not recognize Crimea as part of Russia, given the illegal nature of its acquisition of the territory. 

“Again, Russia did not seize Crimea,” Epshteyn said in an appearance on CNN on July 31. “We could talk about the conflict that happened between Ukraine and the Crimea, it’s an ongoing conflict, but there was no seizure by Russia. That is an incorrect statement, characterization, of what happened.” 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-advisers-russia-ties_us_57acd474e4b007c36e4db94c

[HipChick]

2. Everyone hates Boris...even Faux...

[coco22]

3. i was wondering where he was...

I suspected him of working for the Russians during the campaign. He is one of the worst.

[Glitterati]

4. Do all the Trumpsters wear Trump clothing?

I've never seen such ill fitting clothing on people - especially in the public eye!

Good Lord some get that man a tailor!

[anneboleyn]

5. Another Russian shill for Trump. Boris is horrendous. He yells over everyone else and is an idiot

[coco22]

6. Keep this kicked I have been trying to keep ..

the spotlight on him since the campaign,now finally someone notices this mole.

[Gabi Hayes]

7. world's fastest talking shill?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8764780

[Initech]

8. Kiss Trump's ass 5 times, the sixth time is free?