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Musicmystery -> RE: White House Panic Erupts: Bannon, Spicer and Sanders Screaming (5/17/2017 10:39:54 AM)
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ORIGINAL: bounty44
in case this hasnt been said enough yet:
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It seems an apt description of the White House:
There was a pervasive sense, another official said, that “we are kind of helpless.”
Republicans outside the administration didn’t mince words. “We've seen this movie before,” Sen. John McCain said at a dinner for the International Republican Institute. “I think it appears at a point where it’s of Watergate size and scale.”
It was, in the words of one senior White House official, the worst day of Trump’s presidency.
“Nobody knows where this really goes from here,” the White House official said. “Everyone is walking around saying, ‘What is next?’”
Inside the White House, there was a struggle to get any surrogates on TV because no one knew what to say or how to defend the story, one White House adviser said. At one point in the evening, Fox News host Bret Baier told viewers that “there are not Republicans willing to go on camera tonight as of yet.”
White House officials, one person said, are becoming increasingly leery of putting their names on statements in the immediate aftermath of stories — because Trump often contradicts them publicly or on Twitter.
“They’re in a bad situation,” said one adviser who has known Trump for years. “If people wanted the Comey situation to go away, he did nothing to help that happen.”
“And we are hoping the president doesn’t tweet,” one said. “Fingers crossed.”
More: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-white-house-on-edge-238482
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