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Trump’s Personal Assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, Steps Down
The New York Times ^ | 08/29/2019 | Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman

Posted on 08/29/2019 7:16:56 PM PDT by RightFighter

President Trump’s personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout, whose office sits in front of the Oval Office and who has served as the president’s gatekeeper since Day 1 of his administration, resigned on Thursday, two people familiar with her exit said.

Ms. Westerhout’s abrupt and unexpected departure came after Mr. Trump learned on Thursday that she had indiscreetly shared details about his family and the Oval Office operations she was part of at a recent off-the-record dinner with reporters staying at hotels near Bedminster, N.J., during the president’s working vacation, according to one of the people, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss White House personnel issues...

Ms. Westerhout, a former Republican National Committee aide who also worked for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, reportedly cried on election night because she was upset over Mr. Trump’s victory. As such, the president at first viewed her warily, as a late convert to his cause who could not be trusted.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: backstabbers; corruption; leaker; madeleinewesterhout; massachusetts; michigan; mittwit; nevertrump; nevertrumper; nevertrumpers; potus; prestrump; trump; utah; westerhout; yourefired
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To: Alberta's Child

I just threw up a little...


101 posted on 08/30/2019 4:03:51 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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To: 9YearLurker

Trump talks to the NYT all the time. As do Javanka and their PR team.


It’s a vanity move. No good can come of it. NYT is just fishing for negative angles on everything.


102 posted on 08/30/2019 4:16:42 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: rbg81

Agreed.


103 posted on 08/30/2019 4:19:22 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: RightFighter
A Romney supporter who CRIED after Trump won because she was upset about his election was serving as his PERSONAL FREAKING ASSISTANT?
Yep


104 posted on 08/30/2019 4:29:01 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: RightFighter

AGAIN, who is doing the job recommendations, huh? That’s who the snake in the grass and needs to be fired.


105 posted on 08/30/2019 4:41:29 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Alberta's Child

Little Head making the hiring decisions.


106 posted on 08/30/2019 4:50:32 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: blueyon

Trump has hired the worst people and only has himself to blame. Instead of hiring MAGA people, he let Priebus fill the WH with swamp rats. Very smelly swamp rats.


107 posted on 08/30/2019 4:50:33 AM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: DoodleDawg

Personal assistant probably has a lot of pull with respect to scheduling and “access”...which indirectly touch on who the President sees, and in what light. Which then affects decisions made. Or, alternatively, hears the President unguarded, and can pass on to Swampies the Prez’s thinking, so they can color their presentations.


108 posted on 08/30/2019 4:54:43 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: RightFighter

She was bought off by the media to make up stories.


109 posted on 08/30/2019 5:24:12 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Why?
Well my first guess is to keep close track of his enemy’s actions, motivations and general state of Romney type followers.
I think such actions are part of trump’s modus operadus... which is politically uncoventional.
Trump SOP for continuous smoking out his opposition.
such an obvious and repetitive personal anomaly/characteristic is not a defect... it is a feature... and it is very very intentional.


110 posted on 08/30/2019 5:39:22 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (Imho)
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To: Bryan24

“at a recent off-the-record dinner with reporters..”

As soon as I found that out, I would fire her.
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She’s a women who let her job and too much wine get to her head and she destroyed herself. Live and learn the hard way.


111 posted on 08/30/2019 5:46:45 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: 9YearLurker

“Javanka”

Your dumb made up word is always my cue to stop reading...


112 posted on 08/30/2019 6:21:16 AM PDT by enumerated
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To: RightFighter
Ms. Westerhout, a former Republican National Committee aide who also worked for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign

she was finally fired.

113 posted on 08/30/2019 6:24:36 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bankwalker

Sorry but while it is necessary to support Trump and he is far preferable to any Democrat, cannot be in an adulatory mode especially on a conservative web site that is a free and open forum for ideas. It is not inappropriate to criticize or make observations regarding his performance, behavior and leadership. On occasion it may actually help.


114 posted on 08/30/2019 6:25:26 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Caipirabob
Folks on twitter were saying it was the “nuke a hurricane” leak that was the trap that caught her.

Essentially the same tactic used by the US to get the Japanese to reveal that Midway was their next target during WWII.

115 posted on 08/30/2019 6:34:22 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Elitist Liberals have no idea the hunger and strength of the beast they have uncaged.)
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To: RightFighter

“indiscreetly shared details about his family and the Oval Office operations she was part of at a recent off-the-record dinner with reporters staying at hotels near Bedminster, N.J”

What are these details? I haven’t seen these written any where. I think this is also B.S.


116 posted on 08/30/2019 6:56:38 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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To: allendale
It's fine to criticize Trump when called for.

I'm calling you out on your "mind reading".

You have no idea if he expected to win or not.

now STFU and GTFO!

117 posted on 08/30/2019 7:17:40 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Paul R.
“Bella Donna” - “In Italian, a beautiful woman, in English, a deadly poison, thereby demonstrating the similarity of the two languages.”

(I believe that’s attributed to Anton Levay, but he probably stole it somewhere.)

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Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

118 posted on 08/30/2019 7:18:24 AM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: 9YearLurker

“No, Trump’s supporters would not have complained had Trump picked a real loyalist as AG.”

We didn’t know he wasn’t a loyalist.


119 posted on 08/30/2019 8:18:58 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: TakebackGOP

But to claim as you did that Trump’s supporters wouldn’t have backed him naming anyone but Sessions as AG is ridiculous


120 posted on 08/30/2019 9:05:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker (.)
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