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 wonder if George Conway, Kellyanne’s “husband,” hacked into her computer.
A clear and present danger
I thought that he should have cleaned out all of the white house staff when he took office.
Someone needs to be flushed out and fired immediately, as in yesterday.
Yes. I don’t know how he does it all!
They certainly existed - but the Clintons had media and deep-state protection, so it was hard for this news to reach the light of day.
Maybe they’ve already been flushed.
“Before coming to a conclusion which may not be accurate, consider the evidence. My first thought was that it was an admin or secretarial person, possibly low level, ————, significant other egging him/her on-—
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Perfect description of FBI employee Martha,from “The Americans”———a superb show on Amazon.
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Amen, fire the whole bunch and make them reapply for thier jobs. They will find the traitor among them.
Didn’t a staffer already ‘blow the whistle’ that KellyAnne was bashing POTUS?
IIRC, the staffer was in KAC’s office, with KAC, fixing something on KAC’s laptop....all while KAC was trash-texting Trump. Unbeknownst to KAC, the texts were popping up on her laptop via iMessage...and, the staffer saw them.
If true....why is KAC still working for dear POTUS??
Folks learnt real quickly like not to rat on the Clintons, after Vince’s Ft Marcy Park ‘tragedy’.
Hey, am I losing my mind or did someone leak POTUS Trump’s schedule to Axios in January of 2018? WTFH?? I don’t get it.
Trump’s daily schedule v Obama and Bush
9 January 2018
.....” US President Donald Trump is under fire for the length of his daily schedule, but he would not be the first commander-in-chief to forgo a nine-to-five routine.
Mr Trump takes his first meeting of the day at 11:00 after three hours of “Executive Time”, according to a White House schedule leaked to news site Axios.
This is largely designed to accommodate the time that he spends in the White House residence watching TV and tweeting, according to the report.
The White House responded that Mr Trump spends this time making important calls and consistently “puts in long hours and long days nearly every day of the week all year long”.
The Axios report highlights a long-standing criticism that Mr Trump spends too much time in front of the television” .....
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42610275
Check the computer logs. And have the WH staff take lie detector tests. Perp-walk the guilty up and down Pennsylvania Avenue at noon in hand and foot chains.
It's maddening!!!
Trump is a workaholic and he always has been. Everyone including his enemies know this. The implications of this leak are laughable. But I do hope they catch and prosecute the leaker.
No one wants to talk about the REAL lazy POS—Barack Hussein Obama.
Oops, I called a half white man lazy, I must be a racist.
Imagine what he could do if he had any ambition?/sarc sarc sarc.
lamp-post tar feathers first.
Thank goodness that Trump is smart enough to leave his schedule open for unannounced trips, meetings and other matters that are pertinent to the US. Unlke Pelosi, who’s schedule is filled with tourist jaunts.
Sounds like Kellyanne Conway's doing.
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