Rule number one, don’t text or call anyone, esp a reporter, when you’ve had two too many scotches.
I was gob smacked simply by who he chose to phone. CNN? Ryan Lizza?
Heck, *I* needed a drink on that bone headed move.
Who could LEAK all that bile against your boss, the Chief of Staff, slander him, brag about how you were the one with the straight line to the POTUS, and leak a declaration the Chief of Staff was beneath you and to be gone on Friday, for LEAKING. Laughable on its face.
We could guess there might be a noose and a trap door rustled up, just for Mooch’s public stupidity. Too bad. He was silver tongue talent at the presser, as you said.