FISA related: Boris Epshteyn, special assistant to the president, & transition team **FIRED**

[MelissaB]

Last edited Sat Mar 25, 2017, 09:13 PM - Edit history (1)

(Like Nunes) expected to leave his current post in the administration.

Read below about the news story Louise Mensch broke. This guy just may have been pointed to.

Update: Now Fired, not just leaving.

Boris Epshteyn, White House Press Official, Is Let Go From His Job

Boris Epshteyn, an official in the White House press office who had a contentious relationship with television producers and was once a frequent presence on TV himself, has been let go from his job, according to three people with knowledge of the move.

The departure was treated with some mystery. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, would not comment on the reason Mr. Epshteyn, an old friend of President Trump’s son Eric, was let go.

A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said only that officials were exploring other opportunities in the administration for Mr. Epshteyn, who at one point was on cable news as many as seven times a day promoting Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/us/politics/boris-epshteyn-white-house-press-official-is-let-go-from-his-job.html?smid=tw-share

Top Trump TV surrogate to leave high-profile post

Boris Epshteyn, a special assistant to the president who oversees Donald Trump's television surrogate operation, is expected to leave his high-profile post, multiple sources close to the administration told POLITICO.

The well known, combative talking head, who fiercely defended Trump on television during the campaign first as a surrogate and then as a paid campaign staffer, is expected to remain in the administration, but possibly in a less visible role.

"We are discussing opportunities within the Administration," a senior administration official said in an email Saturday night.

Epshteyn did not respond to a request for comment on Saturday night.

Link: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/boris-ephsteyn-trump-leaving-236506

Edited to add that this is in the original story Louise Mensch broke about the FISA Warrant.

Link to tweet

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Link to original story about the FISA Warrant: https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisa-warrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/

[MelissaB]

1. From Louise Mensch

Link to tweet

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[GP6971]

2. Rats jumping the ship. n/t

[MelissaB]

3. I think he may have been caught up in the FISA Warrant.

I updated the OP to reflect this.

[GP6971]

7. We can only hope

I hope that dolt45 travel restrictions apply to these criminals leaving the country, but that's a pipe dream.

[Nevernose]

19. At this point, the only travel restriction I want

Is one between DC and Mar-a-lago.

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. Remember Nunes blathered that one person in the WH was under surveillance

Be funny if a whole herd of them left, thinking they each were the one......

[DefenseLawyer]

4. Currently Googling "Countries with no Extradition Treaty with U.S." n/t

[dalton99a]

5. FWIW Epshteyn is a real Russian born in Moscow

This is the asshole who left out the Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day

[COLGATE4]

28. Isn't Epshteyn Jewish himself?

[dalton99a]

30. Yep. "Super Jewy"

[Motley13]

6. He was born in Russia to Russian parents

[LenaBaby61]

32. He was born in Russia to Russian parents.

I remember a conversation starting off with Hillary vs tRumputin, but ending up dealing with racism, and I remember him saying that while he was proud to be Russian, he's equally proud to be living his dreams of representing tRumputin in this great country (USA), a country where all anybody had to do was work hard and apply themselves, and their dreams could become reality.

What a bunch of BULL from a lying, crooked, POS, BS artist. One of the guests on the show asked him if he ever heard of Jim Crow, segregation or a need for passage of civil/voting rights legislation. Of course *crickets* after being checked, and it's difficult to shut that fools mouth up, because all he does is talk, talk, talk and gish-gallop.

[Gabi Hayes]

8. I think I loathe that fast talking blowhardbully most of all, and

that's saying something

remember his unstinting, obnoxiously, unsufferably, unhalting, unalterable contention that Melania absolutely did NOT palgiarize any PART of Michelle's speech? he put the ass in assure when he, with utmost certainty, insisted that anyone accusing her of this was beyond contempt

then, all of a sudden, he refused to discuss it. wonder why that was.......

those were the days

Bore USSSSS, we hardly missed ye, ye giant PRICK!

[sharedvalues]

20. Disinformation source - should be banned from media

[Leghorn21]

9. Merci, Melissa! I just saw this on Jester's twitter acct - thanks for collecting all these links and

tweets and such! Word to the wise: do NOT get in Ms. Mensch's crosshairs if you don't have to!

"Run, Borrest, run!"

[MelissaB]

13. No problem.

I gotta do something about this twitter addiction.

[Leghorn21]

14. Nyet! We are going to feed our tweet-hunger till this mofo plays out!! n/t

[MelissaB]

16. LOL! I'm hoping I can hold out. My butt hurts from sitting and my arm from clicking.

Twitter Anon, here I come.

[Leghorn21]

15. Haw haw - look who's in her crosshairs again:

Louise Mensch
@LouiseMensch

You know who was a member of the Transition Team? Boris Epshteyn. Is that not the case, @DevinNunes?

6:09 PM - 25 Mar 2017

[MelissaB]

17. I think he'll stay in her crosshairs.

LOL!

[Thrill]

10. They can run but they can't hide

[C_U_L8R]

11. This seems big

Boris was a true believer... lying his ass off for Trump on TV

[Gabi Hayes]

12. oh, lookee here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028168823

Trump: ''Take her bodyguards' guns away. Let's see what happens to her!"

in which, at post 11, I apparently saw Boris say, in defense, that DT's comment was sarcastic

and napkinz kindly provided this:

[MelissaB]

18. Jeebus! Gotta update the OP. He was FIRED.

[sunonmars]

40. translation...putting as much daylight between him and us.....

They are shitting themselves.

[orangecrush]

21. ...

[MelissaB]

22. Many in the twitter world wonder if he is Source E in the Steele dossier.

[alarimer]

23. I really think this woman is not someone we should hold up as a paragon of journalistic excellence

She is a conspiracy monger and not much else.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/08/is-conspiracy-queen-louise-mensch-right-about-donald-trump.html

[MelissaB]

24. She broke the FISA Warrant story!

The other sources are from the NYTimes and Politico. You got a problem with those as well?

[Leghorn21]

25. Copy, alarimer - but since I have been following her - 5/6 weeks now? - all her info

has been on the money...I take every word I read anywhere now with many teaspoons of salt, but I read her a LOT - plus she's funny as hell.

I first found her via a Nance retweet - I got the impression they had a falling out, but didn't know he called her "batshit crazy!" Damn!

But I read them both routinely, and I believe with all my heart they are both kicking some serious trumputin ass on my dear country's behalf, so - I'm stickin with 'em!

[womanofthehills]

37. I've just started following her and I'm impressed

She has been right on. I also like the Bill Palmer Report - the two of them seem way ahead of the mainstream news. Many on here seem to have a problem with Palmer, but when I ask them to point out something he has gotten wrong in the last few months, I never get an answer.

[babylonsister]

29. Thanks for the info. Now have to google Lloyd Grove. nt

[George II]

26. One of the more obnoxious surrogates during the campaign.

[LenaBaby61]

35. One of the more obnoxious surrogates during the campaign.

+1 million.

He needs to take his lying, gish-galloping, obnoxious butt back to where he came from.

[iluvtennis]

27. Glad Boris has been dumped..he always seemed dishonest during primary and GE reporting

[Cha]

41. They're all a bunch of Liars.. you mean extra

"dishonest"?

[iluvtennis]

44. +++

[HurricaneWarning]

31. At this point in time,

it's not a great idea to have a surrogate that is named Boris.

[iluvtennis]

33. LOL

[uponit7771]

36. +1

[ailsagirl]

34. House of cards

[sunonmars]

39. There is a smoking gun in here...who are these people working in the WH?

There is no way this guy could pass a security clearance.....

[FreeStateDemocrat]

42. Hypocrite and who knows what else:

" In June 2013, Epshteyn marked the passing of Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg by publicly thanking him for creating legislation that helped Epshteyn's family to emigrate to the United States: "... it was the Lautenberg amendment ... passed in 1990 [which] loosened the restriction on refugee states and thereby allowed for tens of thousands of Jews like me from the former USSR to come to America."[3][4]"

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

[sunonmars]

43. I dare say this was possibly used in the past to get Russian spy teams into the USA.