With This Cast Of Characters, No Wonder Trump's White House Is A Toxic Mess
6 years, 4 months ago

With This Cast Of Characters, No Wonder Trump's White House Is A Toxic Mess

Huff Post  

Members of President Donald Trump's Cabinet and other key administration officials surround him in March 2017. On the evidence to date, the past described in Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” is prologue for that ominous day when no one remains to constrain Trump’s excesses. his worst inclinations.” Collectively, they comprise a merciless X-ray of Trump’s inner landscape ― the “crazytown” described by Woodward, a Hobbesian White House where the saner inhabitants consider him a threat to national security. A particularly self-satisfied incompetent, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, also resembles Trump in that he’s an aspiring felon ― in this case, suspected of blatant insider trading. Then comes an admitted felon who lied to cover Trump’s dealings with Russia: erstwhile National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whose hallucinatory passion for conspiracy theories fed Trump’s own.

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2 months ago

Trump cabinet picks so far decried as 'nightmare fuel'

Raw Story  

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Stephen Miller will be Trump's homeland security advisor in new White House role
2 months ago

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NPR  

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'Is Stephen Miller okay?': Dems gleeful as Trump adviser has 'meltdown' over Biden dropout
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Raw Story  

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9 months, 1 week ago

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Raw Story  

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Raw Story  

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1 year, 1 month ago

"This is insane": Experts horrified by report revealing Trump's rumored "cabinet of losers"

Salon  

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2 years, 4 months ago

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Raw Story  

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White House deputy press secretary calls Trump 'nauseating, fearful pig' for praising Putin
2 years, 10 months ago

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Daily Mail  

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Former Pence aide says Trump and Stephen Miller fought against taking Afghan refugees with ‘racist hysteria’
3 years, 4 months ago

Former Pence aide says Trump and Stephen Miller fought against taking Afghan refugees with ‘racist hysteria’

The Independent  

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I Read (Almost) Every Memoir by a Former Trump Official
55 years ago

I Read (Almost) Every Memoir by a Former Trump Official

Slate  

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4 years, 8 months ago

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CNN  

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Sarah Sanders must go: After Mueller, the White House press secretary is toast
5 years, 8 months ago

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Raw Story  

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Sarah Sanders must go: After Mueller, White House press secretary is toast
5 years, 8 months ago

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Salon  

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5 years, 9 months ago

Trump aide Stephen Miller ‘going to clean house’ as immigration policy hardens

LA Times  

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Sarah Sanders blamed by ex-White House official for lacking the 'credibility' to sell Trump's policies
5 years, 11 months ago

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Raw Story  

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Donald Trump says he told Sarah Huckabee Sanders "not to bother" with White House press briefings
5 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump says he told Sarah Huckabee Sanders "not to bother" with White House press briefings

Salon  

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