As a unit of measure, a ālongtimeā is approximately 4.25 Scaramuccis.
Legal jeopardy has a way of stressing people.
Trumpās departure from the White House is also a long time in the making.
But itās getting closer!
I suppose we should be grateful TPM didnāt write āalong timeā ā¦
There canāt be anyone in the WH who isnāt thinking of an escape plan. Working in the WH would be a meat grinder in a sane administration, and this one would be brutalāIām not saying that I feel sorry for them but how could you stay?
Weāll hear more soon.
āThis was a case of, āIām done. Physically. Emotionally. Just drained,āā the friend told Politico.
I imagine that physical and emotional draining was amped up about the time she got that first call from the FBI.
āBoth CBS News and CNN reported that Trump was angry with Hicks for acknowledging the white lies and that he made that known to his communications director, though the White House denied the CNN report that Trump berated Hicks over her testimony.ā
Confirmed - he berated her. āTrump does not tell āwhite liesā or have anyone tell āwhite liesā for me. I tell huge lies, outrageous lies, in-your-face lies, the big easily-disprovable lies. Do NOT minimize my lie-telling or the lie-telling of my administration.ā
So she was thinking of leaving even BEFORE she took up this latest job ?
I can understand not wanting to still be a member of the White House staff when you emerge as a key witness for the Special Prosecutor.
Zing.
ESOL
English eeees so complicated
She added
I banged my way through the White House ā¦on to greener pastures
āIām done. Physically. Emotionally. Just drained,ā
Yeah, you are looking a bit peaked for an on-staff geisha these days.
Actually Iām deeply concerned that sheāll now have enough time on her hands to let her plastic surgery habit spiral out of control. Womanās about 1.63 nose jobs away from Voldemort status.
"Long time, " not ālongtime.ā You guys need a proofreader.
Two pathological liars walk in to a bar.
One says to the other: āYouāre fired.ā
āFor what?ā
āFor doing your job.ā
āLiar.ā
Youāre right - youāre not fired."
A year later, the same two pathological liars walk in to the same bar.
One says to the other: āYouāre doing a great job.ā
āI resigned today.ā
āBut youāve been doing a great job.ā
āLiar.ā
Maybe she was concerned that there were no more abusive males on the White House staff to hook up with after Porter left.
TPM achieves Guarniad-level copy editing. Huzzah!
(Pedant alert for curious mods/TPM-ers: ālongtimeā is an adjective, e.g. āTrumpās longtime aide Hope Hicksā What you mean is āa long timeā.)
This must be true because by Occamās Hammer when several people say the same thing it must be true and several people have said the same thing and several TV stations have said the same thing too.
So the WH is in turmoil over this resignation and all the other shiznit going on. Good.
If Hicks cooperates with Mueller maybe thatās enough to create a final psychotic break and we gleefully watch this (mal)administration enter its final death spiral, caveat being hopefully it doesnāt take the rest of world with it.
Still awaiting the insane-o-crazed tweet storms from hair fuehrer.
One misuse? Okay, so in the headline.