‘The communications team s*** the bed on the Comey firing … If I worked there I’d be dialing up my attorney’: Trump insider reveals ‘chaos’ inside White House after FBI firing
President Trump’s White House communications shop was sent reeling by the firing of FBI director James Comey
The team reportedly got just an hour’s notice
Various early accounts – that Comey got fired at the urging of the deputy attorney general, and because of his handling of the Clinton investigation, were later contradicted by the president
Press Secretary Sean Spicer has been on and off this week doing Navy reserve duty
A former transition official called it ‘total chaos,’ saying, ‘Thank God I don’t work there’
Spicer defended his staff’s conduct, saying they work ‘day and night’
By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor
DailyMail.com
13 May 2017
The White House has grown so tumultuous in the wake of FBI Director James Comey that a former Trump transition official is advising whipsawed staffers to lawyer-up.
Trump’s firing of Comey on Tuesday caught his own press shop off guard, and the initial explanations they came up with for the firing failed to hold up for more than a single news cycle – and sometimes got contradicted by later explanations and by the president himself.
‘It’s total chaos,’ a former Trump transition official with close administration ties told The Hill.
Explaining the flurry of competing leaks, the former official said: ‘It’s image-making on the inside and people trying to protect themselves. There is a deep streak of paranoia among staff. The communications team sh** the bed on the Comey firing and now the war with the FBI has them all scared and throwing each other under the bus.’
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