Posted on 11/14/2016 5:04:21 AM PST by maggief
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Re. Jake Tapper’s “family friend,” Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky.
November 21, 1993
Tapper had read in the newspaper that Margolies-Mezvinsky, a family friend, was running for Congress. He called the house, and she immediately invited him over.
“You know, when you think about a political campaign, you picture this giant, organized machine,” Tapper said. “I got over there, and it was just Marjorie and two women sitting there talking.”
Tapper helped her with speeches, planning events, and “fell into” working with the press. After her primary victory, he joined her staff full time, where he has gained a reputation for bombarding media outlets with forests of shiny fax paper.
“I was seeing the fax machine in the beginning, but it was never a serious relationship. I really fell in love with my fax modem,” he quips.
After the election, Tapper asked Margolies-Mezvinsky on a train ride to Washington if he could be her press secretary. She agreed.
Margolies-Mezvinsky says she has known Tapper “since he was in the womb” and sometimes has to remind herself not to act like a doting relative. But she says Tapper instantly proved his worth early on in the campaign with his resourcefulness combined with a healthy sense of humor.
“I can’t say enough nice things about him without sounding like his mother,” Margolies-Mezvinsky said. “I had been in the media for 25 years, and I had gotten dozens of calls from friends after I won who wanted to work as press secretary. When Jake came to me and said, ‘I want to go to Washington,’ it was crystal clear to me that, despite all these people I had worked with in the field, he would be wonderful here, he would be just fine.”
Why are you surprised? So Trump ran as anti-establishment... with clear establishment support. Now there is a stimulus planned by dt. A stimulus.. and “settled law”.. of gay marriage, he is ok with that.. as long as its settled law. Now his supporters act surprised? Already looking like the second leg of the Bush presidency. Maybe he will surprise us all and really build a wall, establish national concealed carry before he starts his stimulus. Didn’t Obama call healthcare.. “settled law”? Yes he did! Yawn same old uniparty.
He and Reibus make such a cute couple, it warms my heart.
That being said, Pence is the real deal, or he was.
They gain nothing in the long term. They occupy a public opinion, but they don't change the facts of the situation.
Trumps team needs to say that if the word... Bigot, hate race, mean, xenophobe, islamophobe, homophobe .... Is in any question then the interview is.over. ... No exception for all members of his team.
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