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brooklynite

(96,882 posts)
Mon Oct 5, 2020, 08:27 AM Oct 2020

A West Wing meltdown [View all]

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

Source: Axios

Frustration and anxiety built among White House staffers, who say they went days with no internal communication from Meadows about protocols and procedures — including whether they should show up to work — as COVID tore through the West Wing.

By contrast, the first lady’s chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, emailed her staff on Saturday advising them to work from home and reminding them of CDC guidance.

And the vice president’s chief, Marc Short, emailed his senior staff at 3 a.m. Friday with an update on the president’s situation and urged them to work from home. Short also had a conference call with his staff on Saturday to take questions and explain the protocol and situation.

A senior White House official said it was "ridiculous'" that there had been no proper internal communication from the chief or operations officials since COVID started rapidly infecting their colleagues: "A bunch of us are talking about it and just gonna make the calls on our own."

Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-mark-meadows-west-wing-65fb1a74-59b4-4cb3-9326-47aa7d83b946.html

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A West Wing meltdown [View all] brooklynite Oct 2020 OP
Wow. These people are inspiring, aren't they, in showing the Country just how much they are in... SWBTATTReg Oct 2020 #1
It's like our country is in Free-Fall Mike 03 Oct 2020 #2
And Nancy Pelosi ananda Oct 2020 #3
+1 Mike 03 Oct 2020 #4
Yup. Heck, they might as well all abdicate & let Joe take over now given the level of chaos going on onetexan Oct 2020 #20
"Pre-scheduled"? PatSeg Oct 2020 #9
Nothing inspires confidence quite like: central scrutinizer Oct 2020 #5
Still looking for the last copy of Obama's Pandemic Response Plan FakeNoose Oct 2020 #21
Without proper computer and phone safeguards Delmette2.0 Oct 2020 #6
Most agencies provide encrypted/secure laptops for staff at the worksite and for remote home use BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #8
Anything Obama did was wrong according to -45. Delmette2.0 Oct 2020 #12
It would be another genuine source of outrage Blackjackdavey Oct 2020 #14
That HSPD-12 Directive came out under Shrub in 2005 (HS standing for "Homeland Security") BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #15
I think we can agree Blackjackdavey Oct 2020 #17
From day one, when they spent a year avoiding the background checks for Jared and crew BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #18
"But her e-mails!!!" pazzyanne Oct 2020 #13
I'm sure Trump will write $50k checks for the best experimental drugs for all those infected Baclava Oct 2020 #7
They're very good businessmen-types, really skilled in being executives and the like greenjar_01 Oct 2020 #10
Zero sympathy for anyone "working" in this White House BlueNProud Oct 2020 #11
The Rose Garden Plague will go down in White House history...the only question is how many... Sancho Oct 2020 #16
Agencies were/are all required to have a COOP per past Presidential Directives BumRushDaShow Oct 2020 #19
After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve Oct 2020 #22
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