Dumpster Fires

WH Deputy Chief Of Staff Joe Hagin Hits The Exit

The Associated Press reports: The White House aide who led the planning for President Donald Trump’s meeting last week with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has decided to leave the Trump administration to return to the private sector. Joe Hagin, the White House deputy chief of staff for operations, has served in every Republican White House since the Reagan administration. …

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REPORT: John Kelly Has Given Up On Trying To Rein In Trump’s Wild Behavior Even If It Leads To Impeachment

Politico reports: Kelly’s status in the White House has changed in recent months, and he and the president are now seen as barely tolerating one another. According to four people close to Kelly, the former Marine general has largely yielded his role as the enforcer in the West Wing as his relationship with Trump has soured. While Kelly himself once …

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Senior White House Staffer Marc Short Hits The Exit

Politico reports: White House legislative affairs director Marc Short told his colleagues Friday that he’s resigning, according to current and former administration officials. He is expected to leave the White House in mid-July, but it was unclear whether he has accepted a new position. Short, the top White House liaison to Capitol Hill, did not respond to several requests for …

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REPORT: Homeland Security Secretary Nearly Resigns After Browbeating By Trump In Front Of Entire Cabinet

The New York Times reports: Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation’s borders, according to several current and former officials familiar with the episode. Ms. Nielsen, who is a …

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REPORT: White House Staffers May Quit Over Giuliani

Axios reports: If you were gobsmacked watching Rudy Giuliani’s media tour this week — which he launched on Fox News’ Hannity by announcing that Trump reimbursed lawyer Michael Cohen for a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels — you weren’t alone. What we’re hearing: A White House official told me there were “a couple of Mooch references” in the West Wing …

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White House Pissed After Scott Pruitt’s Team Shops Negative Stories About Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke

The Atlantic reports: As Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt faces a seemingly endless stream of scandal, his team is scrambling to divert the spotlight to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. And the White House isn’t happy about it. In the last week, a member of Pruitt’s press team, Michael Abboud, has been shopping negative stories about Zinke to multiple outlets, …

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Trump Completely Melts Down On Fox & Friends

Glorious Leader just delivered what was perhaps his most spittle-flecked, raging, ranting, literally screaming performance during a phoned-in interview with Fox & Friends. Trump bounced around erratically from topic to topic and the interview will surely consume the news cycle for the rest of the day. Let’s start with Fox News. President Trump, in an exclusive interview with “Fox & …

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Sessions Told WH: I Might Quit If Rosenstein Is Fired

The Washington Post reports: Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange. Sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House counsel …

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REPORT: Hannity Hired Cohen To Investigate Left Wing Groups Calling For Hannity Show Boycott [VIDEO]

Media Matters reports: The mystery client that President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, fought in court to keep secret is Fox News host Sean Hannity, Cohen’s lawyer divulged on Monday. Cohen’s lawyers had acknowledged that Cohen had three legal clients since 2017 in a filing in federal court related to legal issues surrounding documents the FBI obtained by raiding …

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Trump Fires Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin

USA Today reports: Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is being replaced, President Trump tweeted Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation and uncertainty about his fate. He had been locked for months in a power struggle with a group of Trump political appointees among his senior staff who wanted him out. His ouster suggests they won the president over in the end, …

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COVFEFE: White House Email Heralds Latest Trump Executive Order To “Address The Situation In America”

So much winning: This White House is not the best when it comes to typos and errors in their communications, but this is covfefe. The White House Press Office sent out an email containing an executive order taking additional steps to address the situation in Venezuela. Except in the subject line, instead of Venezuela, it says “America.” No word yet …

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Sessions Fires McCabe Two Days Before His Retirement

CNN reports: Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe late Friday, less than two days shy of his retirement, ending the career of an official who rose to serve as second-in-command at the bureau. McCabe had more recently been regularly taunted by President Donald Trump and besieged by accusations that he misled internal investigators at the …

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Trump To Fire National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster

The Washington Post reports: President Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and is actively discussing potential replacements, according to five people with knowledge of the plans, preparing to deliver yet another jolt to the senior ranks of his administration. Trump is now comfortable with ousting McMaster, with whom he never personally gelled, but is …

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MSNBC’s Morning Joe Speculates About Trump’s Dick Pics: “Try Not To Throw Up In Your Mouth” [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Morning Joe took on the latest developments in the lawsuit that porn star Stormy Daniels filed against President Donald Trump over an alleged affair on Thursday, and speculated on that existence of possibly “compromising” photos of the tryst. MSNBC’s John Heilemann pointed out that “if there are photographs that are compromising,” the scandal could spill out into public …

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Trump Considered Firing WH Counsel Don McGahn If He Didn’t Deny NYT Report He Had Threatened To Resign

The Hill reports: President Trump reportedly considered firing White House counsel Don McGahn if he didn’t deny a report that he threatened to resign after Trump ordered him to fire special counsel Robert Mueller, according to The New York Times. In January, the Times reported that Trump ordered Mueller to be fired last year, but was stopped after McGahn threatened …

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White House On Stormy’s Lawsuit: We’ve Addressed Our Feelings On That Situation, Nothing More To Add

Politico reports: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday declined to comment in detail about the allegations, saying “we’ve addressed our feelings on that situation, and I don’t have anything else to add.” Allegations that Daniels had an affair with Trump surfaced in January in a Wall Street Journal report that included details of Cohen’s payment to the …

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BREAKING: Trump Adviser Gary Cohn To Resign

The New York Times reports: Gary D. Cohn, President Trump’s top economic adviser, plans to resign, becoming the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the Trump administration, White House officials said on Tuesday. The officials insisted there was no single factor behind the departure of Mr. Cohn, who heads the National Economic Council. But his decision to leave …

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White House Response: Conway’s Hatch Act Violations Only Show Her Desire To Comply With Hatch Act

ThinkProgress reports: “Kellyanne Conway did not advocate for or against the election of any particular candidate,” the White House statement, attributed to deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley, says. “She simply expressed the President’s obvious position that he have [sic] people in the House and Senate who support his agenda.” In an Orwellian twist, the statement concludes by asserting that Conway’s …

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OMG: Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Calls Sarah Huckabee Sanders An “Unattractive Fat Slob” [AUDIO]

Raw Story reports: Completing his bizarre scorched-earth media spree, onetime Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg took to a local news station to call White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a “fat slob.” “She’s a joke,” Nunberg said. “OK fine, yeah, she’s unattractive, she’s a fat slob, but that’s not relevant.” “The person she works for has a 30 percent …

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REPORT: Trump’s Worsening Volatility Worries Friends

The Washington Post reports: Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center. These are the darkest days in at least half a year, they say, and they worry just how much farther President Trump and his administration may plunge into unrest …

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