Boris Epshteyn, who pushes Trumps message out on the airwaves, has offended network bookers and co [View all]

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Another snot in the WH who is too big for his britches!!




White House official terrorizes network green rooms

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/boris-epshteyn-television-networks-behavior-235787

Boris Epshteyn, who pushes Trump’s message out on the airwaves, has offended network bookers and contributors across Washington.

By Annie Karni

03/07/17 04:29 PM EST




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Boris Epshteyn’s rise to a position of prominence in the Trump White House reveals how the president has rewarded his loyalists. | AP Photo



By Peter York

White House official Boris Epshteyn, a combative Trump loyalist tasked with plugging the president’s message on television, threatened earlier this year to pull all West Wing officials from appearing on Fox News after a tense appearance on anchor Bill Hemmer’s show.

Epshteyn, according to multiple sources familiar with the exchange, got in a yelling match with a Fox News booker after Hemmer pressed him for details of President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order cracking down on immigration from Muslim-majority countries — a topic he was not expecting to be grilled on.

“Am I someone you want to make angry?” Epshteyn told the booker, the sources said. When he threatened to pull White House officials from the network, the fed-up booker had had enough.

“Go right ahead,” the booker fired back, the sources said, aware that Epshteyn had no power to follow through on a threat that would have upended the administration’s relationship with a sympathetic news network.

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Epshteyn’s official job is to oversee White House officials who appear on television to speak on behalf of the administration, and defend and explain Trump on TV himself. In recent weeks, he has been aligned with counselor Kellyanne Conway in pushing the administration to use Cabinet secretaries to talk about policies on television, and reduce the on-air profiles of White House staffers................................