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Sean Spicer resigns as White House Press Secretary

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VaultBoy101

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Iolo said:
Um, what? Am I wrong? Hiring Scaramucci causes Spicer/Priebus to resign, sparing Trump from firing them.
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I mean there is literally a bottomless pit of negative+true things you can say about Trump, but "he doesn't have the guts to fire anyone" actually isn't one of them considering the record.
 
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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
I feel like the crowd at the end of Braveheart. I disagree with Spicer on everything but the last couple months I just wanna yell "MERCY!" and hope they just get it over with.
 
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n00bsauce87

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Tovarisc said:
He didn't resign, he was just changing his position / duties within WH. Not demotion or promotion, more like vertical movement.

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https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/888437307677790209
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7:35pm? What time zone are you in?
 
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Acorn

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Jarmel said:
Kind of surprised about Bannon but I can see it. Guy is probably corporate and establishment, everything that Bannon hates.

Prebius probably hates him on the fact that the guy is clearly not prepared for the role.
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At what point does the president of the united states and his staff become "the elite" or will they hide behind that for 4+years. It's such nonsense that falls apart like cardboard in the rain.
 
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rjinaz

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Saganator said:
Depends. He worked at Goldman Sachs for like 7 years. For some, that's enough to make someone evil.

Crazy how Hillary was vilified for speaking at Goldman Sachs events, but Trump can fill his administration with them.
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It's amusing because many Trump supporters claimed that was one of their biggest issues, getting the money out of politics and the White House and Trump was going to do it! Some even acted disappointed at least for a little bit. But, they just don't care anymore. Not enough to ever complain about it or make them sore on Trump at all. Maybe it's because they never really cared and it was something else that they like about Trump. Hmm? hmm..
 
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jay

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Acorn said:
At what point does the president of the united states and his staff become "the elite" or will they hide behind that for 4+years. It's such nonsense that falls apart like cardboard in the rain.
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Conservatives have been working the word for decades now. Their goal is to make it mean intellectual elite and not financial elite because they have little representation in the former and huge representation in the latter.
 
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KoopaTheCasual

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Reading up on Scaramucci, dude is pretty much text-book corporate banker Republican. He was the guy who referenced Obama's scrutiny as "wacking the Wall Street pinata."

So yea, pretty easy to see which way this guy butters his bread.

It's just fascinating to see the intense hatred he's generating from the current WH staff. Really interesting.
 
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Brawly Likes to Brawl

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Acorn said:
At what point does the president of the united states and his staff become "the elite" or will they hide behind that for 4+years. It's such nonsense that falls apart like cardboard in the rain.
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The dude lived in a literal gilded condo and his base was stupid enough to fall for the "champion of the little guy" facade he put up.
 
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megalowho

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Story ties in nicely with the article from yesterday focusing on Trump's one-way loyalty management style.

Atlantic: Donald Trump is an impossible boss, demanding absolute personal loyalty—even when it conflicts with the law or other key principles—and offering little faithfulness in return.
Trump's willingness to humiliate his aides seems to connected to the same lack of interest in principle that animates his fury at the ones he believes have betrayed them. Just as he sees no excuse for prioritizing rule of law, longstanding alliances, or treasured norms over personal loyalty to him, his policy positions seem to be grounded not in ideology but in a simple calculus: What's best for Donald J. Trump? That makes it easy for him to change his position 180 degrees when the political winds change, but it makes it impossible for his aides to keep up.
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Spicer coveted and may have been informally promised the communications director role after Dubke resigned. In exchange for his loyalty as a punching bag and laughingstock tasked with defending the indefensible, Trump turns to one of his NYC sycophants who he likes better on TV instead on a whim. I don't expect any sort of turncoat, tell-all reversal from Spicer, but we can reasonably expect the purging to continue both from the WH and staff resigning due to the hypocritical environment Trump has fostered as much as any exterior pressures.
 
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Jarmel

Banned
KoopaTheCasual said:
Reading up on Scaramucci, dude is pretty much text-book corporate banker Republican. He was the guy who referenced Obama's scrutiny as "wacking the Wall Street pinata."

So yea, pretty easy to see which way this guy butters his bread.

It's just fascinating to see the intense hatred he's generating from the current WH staff. Really interesting.
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It's amazing, it's a pick that everybody there hates. He's too traditional for the Bannon wing and too incompetent for the Preibus/Kushner wing.
 
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mugurumakensei

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I'll have to pour one up for Spicer. You're crazy loyalty this far never got returned. You probably won't learn anything, but you will serve as another footnote in just how terrible Trump is to everyone not family or Putin.
 
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kess

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By the way

Trump Aide Talks Investment With Sanctioned Kremlin Fund

Anthony Scaramucci, aide to President-elect Donald Trump and founder of SkyBridge Capital, discussed possible joint investments in a meeting in Davos with the head of a Russian sovereign wealth fund that the U.S. sanctioned in 2015, the fund’s press service said.

The meeting with Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a $10 billion state-run investment vehicle, is the first public contact between the incoming administration and Kremlin-backed business. Trump has suggested he could ease the sanctions on Russia if the Kremlin cooperates on his policy priorities. Scaramucci confirmed the Davos meeting.

In an interview with the Russian state news agency TASS Tuesday, he also criticized the sanctions as ineffective. Trump’s view about Russia is that “there’s probably shared values or shared interests, that we can align ourselves with each other and this could be mutually beneficial,” he said.
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Pastry

Banned
I don't think an administration can force employees to sign NDAs, why do people keep parroting this? These people work for the federal government, not Donald Trump.
 
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Iolo

Member
VaultBoy101 said:
I mean there is literally a bottomless pit of negative+true things you can say about Trump, but "he doesn't have the guts to fire anyone" actually isn't one of them considering the record.
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That's fair. What I meant to say was he hates conflict and doesn't want to fire anyone to their face, so he will take the indirect method. Even Comey, who the president hated (I assume this is your objection) only found out he was fired on the news.
 
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Dash_Riprock

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n00bsauce87

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Tovarisc said:
CEST +1, I live in Finland. Why? Want to join me in future?
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It can only be better than what it is now

On-Topic: I would not be surprised if there was a leak to happen to keep piling on this shit storm. WH isn't looking to great (in comparison to any other day)
 
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