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RainCaster

(10,866 posts)
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:04 PM Nov 2018

National security aide headed for exit after clash with Melania Trump's office

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by DonViejo (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: CNN

Reflecting the fast-moving nature of the events, soon after a Wall Street Journal report surfaced Tuesday afternoon alleging Ricardel was fired and escorted off the White House grounds, a senior White House official denied the story to reporters.

The official said Ricardel was still in her office Tuesday afternoon. The official declined to speculate further about Ricardel's future in the administration.

Her departure would leave national security adviser John Bolton without one of his key allies in the administration, a deputy who has also shared his penchant for bureaucratic infighting.

It was those sharp elbows that sources said led to the first lady's stinging statement, with Ricardel most recently feuding with members of the first lady's staff over her trip to Africa. One person familiar with the matter said Ricardel quarreled with the first lady's staff over seating on the plane and use of National Security Council resources.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/13/politics/melania-trump-mira-ricardel/index.html



Another to add to Rachel's wall...
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National security aide headed for exit after clash with Melania Trump's office (Original Post) RainCaster Nov 2018 OP
Because pacifying Mrs. Trump is more important than national security dawg day Nov 2018 #1
Lesson: Don't cross paleotn Nov 2018 #2
OFF WITH HER HEAD, screams Queen Melania... PeeJ52 Nov 2018 #3
Remember the inquiries and investigations and outrage when the Clintons let the travel wiggs Nov 2018 #4
Did Melania insist .. jb5150 Nov 2018 #5
The Devil Wears Pravda jpak Nov 2018 #6
Duzy! Xipe Totec Nov 2018 #14
Imagine if Michelle Obama did this - or anything close to this as First Lady... jpak Nov 2018 #7
Exactly what I said to my husband. Nt a la izquierda Nov 2018 #9
The first lady is just a piece of furniture. erlewyne Nov 2018 #8
I think something else is going on. murielm99 Nov 2018 #13
Ahh the first nude model and sex worker in the white house Farmer-Rick Nov 2018 #10
Cat Fight... nt Progressive Jones Nov 2018 #11
Jealous someone else was brushing the mushroom? meadowlander Nov 2018 #12
How she did this duforsure Nov 2018 #15
Locking... DonViejo Nov 2018 #16

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
1. Because pacifying Mrs. Trump is more important than national security
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:05 PM
Nov 2018

paleotn

(17,911 posts)
2. Lesson: Don't cross
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:30 PM
Nov 2018

the first pole dancer.

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
3. OFF WITH HER HEAD, screams Queen Melania...
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:40 PM
Nov 2018

OFF WITH HER HEAD!

wiggs

(7,811 posts)
4. Remember the inquiries and investigations and outrage when the Clintons let the travel
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:42 PM
Nov 2018

staff go?

jb5150

(1,178 posts)
5. Did Melania insist ..
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:45 PM
Nov 2018

.. that the pool boy be sat next to her?

jpak

(41,757 posts)
6. The Devil Wears Pravda
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 08:47 PM
Nov 2018

Xipe Totec

(43,889 posts)
14. Duzy!
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 06:57 AM
Nov 2018

jpak

(41,757 posts)
7. Imagine if Michelle Obama did this - or anything close to this as First Lady...
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 09:04 PM
Nov 2018
GOP

a la izquierda

(11,791 posts)
9. Exactly what I said to my husband. Nt
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 09:58 PM
Nov 2018

erlewyne

(1,115 posts)
8. The first lady is just a piece of furniture.
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 09:21 PM
Nov 2018

We cannot believe anything we read about her even through
no fault of her own.

murielm99

(30,733 posts)
13. I think something else is going on.
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 02:06 AM
Nov 2018

Trump is hiding behind his wife's skirts.

Farmer-Rick

(10,154 posts)
10. Ahh the first nude model and sex worker in the white house
Tue Nov 13, 2018, 11:30 PM
Nov 2018

Weighs in with her own stupidity. She is such a twit, I'm surprised she has opinions. But she surprises us now and then with words strung together to make sentences.

I don't really care, do you?

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
11. Cat Fight... nt
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 01:24 AM
Nov 2018

meadowlander

(4,394 posts)
12. Jealous someone else was brushing the mushroom?
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 01:40 AM
Nov 2018

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
15. How she did this
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 07:36 AM
Nov 2018

Is another indication of how stormy her relationship is with him now, where she publicly had it announced about this person to get it done.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
16. Locking...
Wed Nov 14, 2018, 08:33 AM
Nov 2018
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