Trump’s Personal Assistant Resigns After Spilling Deets About First Family To Reporters

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President Trump’s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout resigned on Thursday, the New York Times reported.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1245627
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Poor girl. I’m sure she’s broken up about not being a part of this dumpster fire administration!

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So can we expect her book by the election? She has to have some pretty good dirt on trump.

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“while Trump spent a working-vacation at his golf club…”

Really, “working-vacation”?

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some additional detail from CNN

Madeleine Westerhout was forced to resign as executive assistant to the President on Thursday after Trump learned she had shared information with reporters at a recent off-the-record meeting, during which she didn’t say her comments were off the record, according to sources familiar with her departure. A reporter divulged details about the dinner to White House staff, the people said.

I am going to bet that the other reporters at the dinner understood that her comments were off the record, and that the “didn’t say they were” is a red herring. Probably some Breitbart/Daily Stormer type was at the dinner…

Regardless, this is the height of unethical journalistic behavior. It would be one thing if the reporter published the story as “om the record”. Instead, he betrayed a source that he know would get fired.

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Is it wrong to notice she kind of looks like Monica Lewinski?

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Loose lips sink ships, but Trump’s was already taking on water.

Glub…glub…

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While vital positions in the government, such as in the State Dept, go unfilled, and the administration says it’s ok because it saves money, this 27-year-old was tRump’s greeter outside the Oval office, basically the sort of job that pays minimum wage at Walmart, and she was making $130,000. The swamp pays bigly.

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I wonder if she took over steaming duties when Hope Hicks left.

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No. That’s the Hope Hicks type, with the Trump fetishes of long loose straight hair, garish eye makeup, eyebrow pencil, short skirts. Those are all markers of his psychological fluffers.

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So, she talks to reporters against the wishes of the chosen one.

But, will she testify to Congress contrary to his certain-to-be-issued orders to not talk or produce documents.

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while Trump spent a working-vacation at his golf club

That’s quite a leap to take to assume Trump was working at the time.

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Not surprising–even a competent president would likely fire her.

So, the House Judiciary subpoena arrives in 5…4…3…2…

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It’s a leap to assume that Cheatolini is working at any time.

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I suspect that someone who was there from the start is a true believer and won’t have much of interest to say, besides don’t they all have to sign a non-disclosure agreement?

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Working on his drive.

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Hmmmmmm… Maybe she ‘spilled the deets’ about who co-signed Donnie’s loans?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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You have no idea how much work it is to keep generating those tweets.

Trying to make sure his personal businesses aren’t bleeding to death with his kids near - but not allowed to touch - the controls.

And walking a few steps from the cart to the ball and back again 80 times or so … the man is amazingly dedicated to the office he holds.

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I thought those NDAs were meaning less. There’s nothing like getting locked out of a job to turn that true believer status. Remember Amarosa?

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