Trump is ready to ‘take out the trash’ as he green-lights plan to stop leaks by FIRING mid-level and junior communications aides
Chief of Staff John Kelly has plan in-hand to go on firing spree for Trump
President is impatient with press leaks and angry enough to swing the axe
Senior-level people like Sarah Sanders and Mercedes Schlapp appear safe
Stems from controversy over mid-level aide’s insensitive remark about John McCain’s cancer battle – which promptly leaked
By DAVID MARTOSKO
DAILYMAIL.COM
23 May 2018
President Donald Trump has signaled to his top communications aides that he’s ready to send some of their less senior staffers packing – a move he hopes will cut the White House’s culture of leaking off at the knees.
Chief of Staff John Kelly has signed off on the plan, according to Politico, a direct consequence of this month’s leak of an insensitive comment about Sen. John McCain’s brain-cancer battle.
That episode, a White House official told DailyMail.com, was a public black eye that focused the president’s attention on his porous West Wing.
The president realizes that ‘it’s time to take out the trash,’ the official said Wednesday. ‘Some of these kids are more trouble than they’re worth, with all the leaks. This is the White House, not a seventh-grade lunch table.’
It’s not clear when the axe will swing at mid-level and junior employees, or how many Kelly plans to fire.
But it appears press and messaging leaders like Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp are safe.
Senior Trump-whisperer Kellyanne Conway said last week, however, that the White House had identified some secret leakers, and ‘they’re not all junior folks.’
The administration has suffered from a culture of leaks since before Inauguration Day, with top-shelf officials initially being the most sieve-like among disloyal White House staff.
Lower-level staffers are thought to be behind more recent breaches, however, including the embarrassing McCain episode.
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