White House comms team turns on each other in front of Trump
Source: Axios
Shortly after word leaked that Kelly Sadler had taken a nasty shot at John McCain, President Trump convened a meeting in the Oval Office for a tiny group of communications staffers, according to sources familiar with the gathering. Sadler, Mercedes Schlapp, Raj Shah, and John Kelly all gathered in front of the Resolute Desk for a conversation with Trump about the leaking problem. They were the only people in the room, though the door to the outer Oval was open.
What happened: The president told Sadler she wouldnt be fired for her remark. He added, separately in the conversation, that hes no fan of McCain. Then Trump, who had grown obsessed with the leaking problem, told Sadler he wanted to know who the leakers were. Sadler then stunned the room: To be completely honest, she said, she thought one of the worst leakers was Schlapp, her boss.
Schlapp pushed back aggressively and defended herself in the room. And in follow up conversations after the meeting, some of Schlapps colleagues also came to her defense. (In a prior meeting, she had said, "You can put this on the record: I stand with Kelly Sadler" ). Sadler went on to name other people she also suspected of being leakers.
The allegation like a previous internal meeting to deal with leaking ultimately got leaked to us.
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unblock
(52,220 posts)SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)and 'Arrested Development'.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)The Trump WH has a real Lord of the Flies vibe these days.
demmiblue
(36,850 posts)This too, also:
TEB
(12,842 posts)Cluster f..k this administration
Complete goat rodeo
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)PatSeg
(47,430 posts)Leak before you get leaked upon! Even Trump leaks. Then everyone blames everyone else. Its like some wacky comedy, except its not the least bit funny.
Solly Mack
(90,765 posts)They're a sitcom-dramedy and a bad one at that.
rickford66
(5,523 posts)red dog 1
(27,799 posts)and call the "Plumbers"
[E. Howard Hunt is dead, but G.Gordon Liddy is still around]
not fooled
(5,801 posts)what a bunch of toxic backstabbers and bootlickers. Too bad they are also vicious in their policy and have such power.
yonder
(9,664 posts)plus a valve and timing check still ain't going to get that "well-tuned machine" running right. No sir, take that heap to the crusher and let us select the new car.
Hugin
(33,140 posts)Hopefully, soon the "Out Yugo Administration."
At least the car had good radios... Made in Japan. Installed once they made it to the US.
AZ8theist
(5,461 posts)MBS
(9,688 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,796 posts)Donald wants his employees at each other's throats.
Donald Trump fostered fierce competition between employees at his ... he pitted his managers against each other in a ferocious competition ...
https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=wBwLW-GYF6q0jwSO5oKgDA&q=trump+wants+employees+competing+against+each+other&oq=trump+wants+employees+competing+against+each+other&gs_l=psy-ab.3...4173.26705.0.27971.55.52.1.1.1.0.231.5985.1j44j2.47.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..6.32.3959.0..0j35i39k1j0i131k1j0i131i20i264k1j0i20i264k1j0i3k1j0i22i30k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i21k1j33i160k1.0.j_kfyxNQtEI
brush
(53,776 posts)her back. I wouldn't want someone on my staff who tried to push me under the bus right in front of my boss.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)except, perhaps, for the leaking part.
Nitram
(22,800 posts)Alethia Merritt
(147 posts)They had full reign of the Oval Office and other places without our press being there.