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'I'm going to fire everybody,' says White House communications director

esquared

esquared

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Ha ha ha ha.

trump got himself another person, maybe as crazy as himself to keep that WH morale down,
nice and low.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...ci-fire-white-house-leaks-20170725-story.html

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But scaramucci also made clear "1,000 percent" that he is prepared to fire any communications staffer he suspects of disloyalty. "I've got the authority from the president to do that," he said.

"There are leakers in the comms shop; there are leakers everywhere," he said. "And leaking is atrocious. It's outrageous. It's unpatriotic. It damages the president personally. It damages the institution of the presidency, and I don't like it. I just don't like it."

The dude is unhinged. And what's clear 1000%? What's that, 10X more clear than 100%?


I guess a few hours later he backed off that Napoleonic tirade. I would have liked to see him fire the whole
staff. Would have made this cabal of clowns, look even more inept, if that is even possible.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/343827-scaramucci-scales-back-talk-of-firings

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pcgeek11 said:
And you think that leakers shouldn't be fired?

Why shouldn't they be fired?
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And they should start with the number one leaker - mr tweetstorm himself.😱😛 Oh now I understand the confusion like father like son like son in law. Sheesh the nepotism leaves me confused sometimes.😀
 
pcgeek11 said:
And you think that leakers shouldn't be fired?

Why shouldn't they be fired?
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A reasonable person looks for this thing called context, such as motive, the leaker's use of reasonable judgement and the nature of the information that was leaked.

For example, was a person doing it purely for personal profit, or for example were they of the opinion that something important needed to be brought to the public's attention? If it's the latter, then a decent administration should be asking itself why it apparently doesn't have the confidence of its staff to act in a reasonable manner. Should a decent administration automatically fire say an otherwise very competent member of staff who leaked information out of a sense of duty. Is an automatic firing policy (as evidenced in the OP quote):

esquared said:
"There are leakers in the comms shop; there are leakers everywhere," he said. "And leaking is atrocious. It's outrageous. It's unpatriotic. It damages the president personally. It damages the institution of the presidency, and I don't like it. I just don't like it."
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... actually going to encourage staff not to leak information when any who have or will do have already accepted the risk of being fired?

Here are two hypothetical examples of distinctly different types of leak in terms of context:

1 - After professional consultation for unusual symptoms, the president is diagnosed with bowel cancer. A member of staff leaks the information, despite the fact that the president is acting on the advice of his doctor and has also informed people in his administration and party who needs to be informed of the likely long-term implications of the diagnosis.

2 - After a professional consultation for unusual symptoms, the president is diagnosed with a chronic and degrading mental condition that is already affecting his judgement, for which there is no known effective treatment. The president has rejected the diagnosis and is acting to keep the diagnosis from everyone except an inner circle of enablers. A member of staff leaks this information.

IMO in scenario 1 the leaker is a douchebag who absolutely should be fired. The leaker in scenario 2 however might have averted a catastrophe with worldwide consequences.
 
I agree that it depends on the "context" of the leaked information as you described. But the petty backstabbing leaks that are coming from the Whitehouse communications staff as discussed in the article, they should be fired on the spot.

Thus far I don't think any of the leakage has been of the dire consequences as you described above ( mental illness, etc... ).

Of course the current investigations haven't completed and I would just wait on that to see the outcome. Allow the justice department to do its job.
 
pcgeek11 said:
I agree that it depends on the "context" of the leaked information as you described. But the petty backstabbing leaks that are coming from the Whitehouse communications staff as discussed in the article, they should be fired on the spot.
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But I thought that Trump was going to have the most open and transparent government?
 
The Mooch was widely regarded as a prime leaker during the primaries and beyond. lol

I like how he leaked the firing of that communications aide to the press, didn't tell the guy, then turned around and expounded on how thats an example of the damage leaks do. It's like a Jedi mind trick for morons.
 
pcgeek11 said:
I agree that it depends on the "context" of the leaked information as you described. But the petty backstabbing leaks that are coming from the Whitehouse communications staff as discussed in the article, they should be fired on the spot.
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Trump creating different factions who are constantly trying to knife each other inside his administration has led to the Olympics of Leaking that now takes place, this is by no means limited to the comms staff. If you want to start assigning responsibility start at the top.
 
well, Trump has been claiming all along there is a witchhunt going on, so I guess he had to make it happen himself in order to make it true.
 
HomerJS said:
If everyone who leaked in DC were to be fired or quit how many do you think would be left? You realize Scaramouch was guilty of leaking himself?
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Exactly.

GOP Campaigns Recall a Self-Dealing Leaker in Scaramucci

But aides to 2016 presidential candidates whom Scaramucci endorsed before coming around to Trump say he was suspected of leaking internal information, and left out of some internal discussions for fear that he would pass along those sorts of details to reporters---or that he already had.[/QUOTE]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-campaigns-recall-a-self-dealing-leaker-in-scaramucci
 
Just listened to Scaramucci talk complete and utter nonsense about the healthcare plan, Sessions, leakers, and how it wasn't the president who told him to fire someone.

Cuomo: "Did the president tell you to get rid of this guy, he's one of the leakers."

Scaramucci: "I'm not going to answer that question."

Cuomo: "Why?"

Scaramucci: "Because I just said I'm not going to answer that question."

Cuomo: "What happened to being straight?"

Scaramucci: "I'm straightly not answering your question."

And that was probably the most least offensive part of the exchange. I didn't think it was possible that this administration could put someone on camera that was more loathsome than Conway, Spicer or Huckabee. But they did.
 
Oddly enough since Mooch began his plumbing expedition the @RoguePOTUSStaff twitter account has gone silent. He does have a long history of doing wonders with leaks.



It's pretty hilarious that con men like mooch and nazis like gorka are by far the most competent people in the white house right now. The rest of them are a bunch of braying donkeys and nepotic invalids.
 
FIVR said:
Oddly enough since Mooch began his plumbing expedition the @RoguePOTUSStaff twitter account has gone silent. He does have a long history of doing wonders with leaks.



It's pretty hilarious that con men like mooch and nazis like gorka are by far the most competent people in the white house right now. The rest of them are a bunch of braying donkeys and nepotic invalids.
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That account has been known as a fake for a while now.

Gorka, on the other hand, is a lunatic. And a snowflake. And a nazi. And not a real PhD.
 
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