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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWorth posting just for the photo, Marone
That's your messiah, Deplorables. Tell him to take some walks
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It was, in the words of one senior White House official, the worst day of Trumps presidency.
White House officials spent early Tuesday wondering who was leaking details of President Donald Trumps classified conversations with Russian officials about intelligence shared by the Israelis, and moving to contain the fallout ahead of Trumps planned trip to Jerusalem next week. They spent the evening facing a report that before he fired FBI director James Comey, Trump directly asked him to stop investigating the Trump campaigns Russia tiesand worrying what else might yet be revealed.
Nobody knows where this really goes from here, the White House official said. Everyone is walking around saying, What is next?
In interviews, multiple White House officials indicated they feel under siege unsure who in the intelligence community was leaking, how much damaging information was out there, when the next proverbial shoe would drop and what Trump might say.
Staffers shuttled back and forth among West Wing offices debating what to say without divulging confidential material or getting anything wrong. A deflated and exhausted Sean Spicer, who continues to read reports that his job is in jeopardy but is working 12 hours every day in his office, huddled in his office with Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-white-house-on-edge-238482
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Worth posting just for the photo, Marone (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
May 2017
OP
tanyev
(42,544 posts)1. Worst day so far.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. I'm loving it.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)3. Oooohh where is my violin? I feel like playing it
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,715 posts)4. Wait a couple days... Then that day will be his worst.
He's had more "worst" days in the White House early in his term than most other presidents have had their entire term.
Good gravy!