Posted on 02/04/2019 2:33:37 PM PST by Red Badger
The White House found itself knocked off balance ahead of the State of the Union after an anonymous staffer leaked months of President Donald Trump’s schedules to Axios, two administration officials told The Daily Caller.
Axios published months of Trump’s private schedules Sunday evening, detailing how Trump spends nearly 60 percent of his time in unstructured “executive time.” One administration official said the leak itself did not reveal any information, which wasn’t already known generally, but was “aghast and disgusted” that anyone in the president’s circle would reveal so much proprietary information.
Another administration official said rank and file White House staffers were particularly upset about the leak because it demonstrated clear malice towards the president, and fostered a general atmosphere of distrust. The official said many younger staffers were in “complete disbelief” in morning meetings and expressed open wishes that those who harbor such obvious disdain for Trump should just leave the White House.
Trump’s director of Oval Office operations, Madeline Westerhout, slammed the leak of the schedules in a Sunday evening Twitter statement, saying:
What a disgraceful breach of trust to leak schedules. What these don’t show are the hundreds of calls and meetings @realDonaldTrump takes everyday. This POTUS is working harder for the American people than anyone in recent history. https://t.co/n1HrxmCsiB
— Madeleine Westerhout (@madwest45) February 3, 2019
“This leak is truly disgraceful. There’s no obvious rhyme or reason for it other than to cause mayhem and increase paranoia. Whoever leaked it knew it would be used to portray the President as not working hard,” former White House aide Cliff Sims and author of a new book about the dysfunctional staffing relationship inside the West Wing told TheDC.
“There are plenty of justifiable criticisms of Trump. That isn’t one of them. Why work in a White House where you clearly think that poorly of the president you’re there to serve? There’s nothing patriotic about being the so-called ‘resistance’ on the inside.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the president’s “executive time” to Axios telling them in a statement, “while he spends much of his average day in scheduled meetings, events, and calls, there is time to allow for a more creative environment that has helped make him the most productive President in modern history.”
I give my President permission to personally execute any such traitors he comes across . On the spot
Start putting out slightly different intel to all suspects.
Trump is lazy? That will never stick.
I am constantly amazed at how disloyal people are in Washington DC.
I’ve lived there, and I know the town is full of arrogant, narcissistic people who fancy themselves as masters of the universe.
But even I can’t believe how bad it is.
Somebody needs to go to jail over this.........................for a loooooong time....................
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That’s why this crap keeps happening, because THEY NEVER DO because we have a “justice” department that’s utterly and completely corrupt.
And no one does anything about it - including The President, sad to say.
Kelly?
KellyAnne?
Who did this, Axios? Name names.
The FBI needs to get the hell over themselves and their Russki bull**** and start doing their jobs of defending the country and its president.
There is no doubt that Trump is a busy, smart, and hard working man. It is clear that he is not lazy.
Let it go. It’s just stupid noise.
I wish I had some of the energy and savvy that President Trump has.
When people called Obama ‘lazy’ they were ‘racists’.................
Detector test all who would possibly be involved. Terminate the failures, and prosecute. Collateral damage be damned!
Exactly!! There’s not lazy cell in his brain.
During his 60% unstructured time, he gets more done for the American people than the last 3 presidents, combined!
That had occurred to me, but even she would not be so overt.........................I don’t think................
WHAT!!!? Are you aware that the security of our President was just breached? WOW!!!
Who was ever disloyal to the Clintons?
“But even I can’t believe how bad it is.”
Lifes a bitch when U can NO LONGER BUY a politician -huh....
Pigs at the trough will NEVER understand....
This is just more propaganda from the people that want you deaf, dumb and blind to the positive things that are happening under this administration.
Good point!
KellyAnne's husband is the slimiest of the pond scum. I can see a scenario where she has the POTUS schedules on a laptop which she may carry home. It's possible scum hubby knows the password and downloaded and forwarded them to make sure they bite Trump.
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