GOOD READ - White House systems failed with Comey firing, but Trump pushed the buttons

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-systems-failed-with-comey-firing-but-trump-pushed-the-buttons/2017/05/13/e9db104e-375c-11e7-b373-418f6849a004_story.html?utm_term=.465481202074


Across Washington, Trump’s allies have been buzzing about the staff’s competence as well as the president’s state of mind. One GOP figure close to the White House mused privately about whether Trump was “in the grip of some kind of paranoid delusion.”


Inside the White House, there was widespread agreement that Comey had to go. But how and when Trump would fire him — and how it would be rationalized to the public — was the subject of considerable debate.

“Reince Priebus has made rookie mistake after rookie mistake,” Whipple said. “But ultimately, it’s fundamentally on Donald Trump. A chief of staff can do very little to make the White House function if he’s not empowered by his president. That simply has not happened.”

“Trump is so unsophisticated about government, and he lacks even basic knowledge about how the government functions, of what the unwritten but very important rules and traditions are. His attitude toward all those things is they don’t matter: ‘I’m going to drain the swamp!’?” said a veteran of past Republican administrations who is close to the Trump White House and spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly critique the president.

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1. Very good read.

Thanks for posting it!

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2. Thanks.

I tried to pick out 4 paragraphs from throughout the article.