“The best people” - WH Staff Secretary dating Hope Hicks resigns after spousal abuse allegations

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Anonymous wrote:Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/john-kelly-rob-porter-security-clearance-400987

Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance

The former White House staff secretary, who left the Trump administration on Thursday, was among multiple West Wing aides who had been working with only an interim security clearance.

White House chief of staff John Kelly was told several weeks ago that the FBI would deny full security clearances to multiple White House aides who had been working in the West Wing on interim security clearances.

Those aides, according to a senior administration official, included former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who left the White House on Thursday after reports that he physically and verbally abused his two ex-wives.

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The White House chief-of-staff told confidants in recent weeks that he had decided to fire anyone who had been denied a clearance — but had yet to act on that plan before the Porter allegations were first reported this week.

Trump jokingly told economic adviser Gary Cohn several months ago that while he initially thought Porter was “just some guy who handed me papers,” he had since realized that Porter was “the smartest guy in the White House.”

Porter, Trump told Cohn, had not one but two degrees from Harvard — one from the undergraduate college and one from the law school — and he was a Rhodes Scholar. “Even Gorsuch wasn’t a Rhodes Scholar,” Trump said, referring to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, who spent two years at Oxford on a Marshall Scholarship.

“Maybe he’ll be my next Supreme Court pick,” Trump said.

So who are the other people who aren’t going to get their security clearances and why are they still working with classified information weeks after Kelly found out?

They may be people like Rob Porter, who have background "issues", which make issuing them a security clearance very difficult, if not impossible. These are quite strategic options to have as staffers in a White House which is being investigated. The fact that the White House is aware of their "issues", and is still willing to employ and protect them, makes these kind of no-clearance staffers particularly loyal to the White House. And if their background "issues" should be discovered, as Porter's were, then everyone except the White House will professionally eschew them for those "issues". The President will still support their professional futures, as he did for Porter today, and thus the resigning no-clearance staffers with background "issues" will remain particularly loyal allies to an administration under investigation.

You're thinking strategically. I think it's more likely that they just can't get anyone better.

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Surely he warned Hope Hicks, right? Or did he just leave her to fend for herself?

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is stuck with Kelly. It's not like there's a line of quality applicants for the job.

Rumor is Rick Mulvaney is leading candidate to take over for Kelly.

Personally, I'd prefer him to be out of OMB and CFPB where he's creating havoc.

Mick Mulvaney, love him or hate him, has been very effective and successful at implementing the Trump administration's policies and goals at both OMB and CFPB. Mulvaney would undoubtedly be a very effective WH Chief of Staff, but wouldn't the Trump administration be hesitant to remove him from the OMB and CFPB?

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is stuck with Kelly. It's not like there's a line of quality applicants for the job.

Rumor is Rick Mulvaney is leading candidate to take over for Kelly.

Personally, I'd prefer him to be out of OMB and CFPB where he's creating havoc.

Mick Mulvaney, love him or hate him, has been very effective and successful at implementing the Trump administration's policies and goals at both OMB and CFPB. Mulvaney would undoubtedly be a very effective WH Chief of Staff, but wouldn't the Trump administration be hesitant to remove him from the OMB and CFPB?

Mulvaney is even more of a tone deaf jerk than Kelly. Trump does probably see him as a “killer” but it would be a bad move on the PR front. This administration is bleeding problematic people faster than it can hire probelmatic people.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump is stuck with Kelly. It's not like there's a line of quality applicants for the job.

Rumor is Rick Mulvaney is leading candidate to take over for Kelly.

Personally, I'd prefer him to be out of OMB and CFPB where he's creating havoc.

Mick Mulvaney, love him or hate him, has been very effective and successful at implementing the Trump administration's policies and goals at both OMB and CFPB. Mulvaney would undoubtedly be a very effective WH Chief of Staff, but wouldn't the Trump administration be hesitant to remove him from the OMB and CFPB?

Are the heads of OMB and CFPB Senate confirmed? I can’t remember.

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Frustrated Hope Hicks Wishing She Could Find One Nice Guy in the Autocratic Personality Cult.. LOL. Dead.

https://politics.theonion.com/frustrated-hope-hicks-wishing-she-could-find-one-nice-g-1822879296

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Porter is disgusting. Kelly needs to go now. Hicks needs therapy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump is stuck with Kelly. It's not like there's a line of quality applicants for the job.

Rumor is Rick Mulvaney is leading candidate to take over for Kelly.

Personally, I'd prefer him to be out of OMB and CFPB where he's creating havoc.

Mick Mulvaney, love him or hate him, has been very effective and successful at implementing the Trump administration's policies and goals at both OMB and CFPB. Mulvaney would undoubtedly be a very effective WH Chief of Staff, but wouldn't the Trump administration be hesitant to remove him from the OMB and CFPB?

Are the heads of OMB and CFPB Senate confirmed? I can’t remember.

I think so. Mulvaney is only Acting head of CFPB, remember, because this one would be very hard to get anyone confirmed.

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Kelly pushing out false narrative in an attempt to cover his ass. Where are the “good people” on Trump’s side?

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/373156-kelly-told-wh-staff-to-say-he-took-immediate-and-direct-action-on?amp&__twitter_impression=true

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We talk about faux relationships all the time. Sometimes they are constructed to mask the true sexual preference of one or both parties. Sometimes they are purely for promotional purposes, to increase TV ratings or movie ticket sales or album sales.

This faux relationship was assembled for a very different reason. It was to discredit anybody who claimed that this under-30 female was having an affair with one of the most famous men in the world. They had to find her an alternative public boyfriend to put some credible distance between her and the much older married man.

The only problem? They paired her with the wrong faux boyfriend! Cute and more age-appropriate… but a bad person with a sordid history that caused him to get fired. Yes, fired!

What a disaster. Now that he’s been fired, they have to find a replacement for him really fast. She will “break up” with him and will be seen dating someone new within the next few weeks.

With all the resources at their disposal, they should have done their due diligence on him in the first place. They won’t make that mistake again.

The next one will be more thoroughly vetted.

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http://blindgossip.com/?p=89824

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Well uh...MS-13
Those are some bad hombres

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