Trump's 'white power' retweet set off 'five-alarm fire' in White House

[crickets]

7. The lie doesn't pass the smell test. Not even close.

1/ trump left his phone where? Since when is he allowed to leave a source of potentially sensitive information anywhere unattended? Regardless of his own carelessness, he has handlers around him to take care of these details.

2/ trump is surrounded by handlers, including scads of Secret Service. All of them have phones and will certainly answer WH calls promptly.

3/ No one had any trouble reaching trump, they just didn't have access to his twitter account for three hours.


How much do you want to bet Dan Scavino is no longer the only alternate person with access for when this happens again? (Notice I don't say 'if.')

The WH had no trouble getting in touch with trump. They just tried desperately to get him to delete the tweet for three hours and were faced with "I don't wanna." Highly likely the impasse broke when Scavino was finally reached. He deleted the tweet pronto, though the damage was already done, and here we are.

Pathetic.