After Helsinki, White House Staff Depressed and Ready to Bail

[babylonsister]

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/20/after-helsinki-white-house-staff-depressed-and-ready-to-bail.html

Posted on Fri, Jul 20th, 2018 by Leo Vidal
After Helsinki, White House Staff Depressed and Ready to Bail


One side effect of President Trump’s press conference with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was destroying the morale of his White House staff. According to a new article in POLITICO, morale inside the West Wing is extremely low following the Helsinki summit and many staffers want to quit but are afraid of a “backlash” from other party members if they do.

One Republican in Washington who is close to members of the White House staff had this to say:

“People are just depressed. Nobody wants to take on the public heat of resigning right now, but there are a bunch of people who were thinking maybe they’d leave after the midterms who are very seriously starting to consider accelerating their timetable.”

Due to their disenchantment with the president, many staffers had been planning to leave after the midterm elections in November. Now they are wondering if they can even wait that long, and many want to escape the bad environment right away.

Surprisingly, the issue that drew many young staff people to want to work in the Trump White House is morality. According to POLITICO, these staffers now feel that Trump failed morally in Helsinki, just as he did after Charlottesville, and they no longer want to be associated with him and his presidency. They say that morale has sunk to its lowest level since Charlottesville, when Trump refused to condemn neo-Nazi demonstrators. This triggered public soul-searching by Trump’s Jewish economic policy adviser Gary Cohn, who eventually left the administration.

Similarly, the Helsinki fiasco has raised questions for those who view Russia as a serious adversary. They are asking themselves how they can continue to work for a president who has now publicly supported and even befriended a brutal dictator like Vladimir Putin.

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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/20/after-helsinki-white-house-staff-depressed-and-ready-to-bail.html

[world wide wally]

1. I wish they would all quit enmass and say it's because Congress won't do anything

[irisblue]

2. 🎻

[tblue37]

3. Morality? Give me a break! His total lack of morality was evident not just during

the campaign but for decades before the campaign.

[onlyadream]

11. When they say morality

They mean anti brown people from shithole counties. That’s cool with them. But backing Russians apparently isn’t so cool.

[cally]

4. No excuses

Their lives will forever bear the taint of working for the traitor. They knew he had no decent morals from day one. I don’t buy the notion that anyone went to work for Trump for morality. They knew and didn’t care because they wanted power.

[Nevilledog]

5. Their only hope for redemption....

... is to leave and voice their reasons why LOUDLY and in PUBLIC without blaming anyone but TRUMP.

[RockRaven]

6. Anonymous leaks claiming that they're unhappy with Trump are merely

an attempt to avoid taking responsibility for their choice to a) work there in the first place and b) stay there now.

If they are truly critical of Trump, say so in public and/or actually resign. None of this second-hand-anonymous-quote-given-to-an-access-journalism-outlet BS.

[Captain Stern]

7. Fuck them. Every last one of them.

They weren't duped. They knew exactly what they were signing on for.

They're all pieces of shit that knew that the only way that they could float to the jobs they have is under trump. None of them would have been hired if there had been a real President in office, and that even includes Ronald Raygun and the Cheney/Bush regime.

For example...Sarah Huckabee Sanders....does anyone seriously think she could have landed that job under any other President ever? trump doesn't hire the best people. He hires the best people that are willing to work for him. And those people just plain suck.

[dalton99a]

9. +1. Decent people don't work for Donald Trump

[Ilsa]

14. Even SHS looks depressed.

Her speech is not energetic any more like it was before. She doesn't want to take on the press because she knows they are infinitely more honest than the WH and Trump. Her pressers always start late, too, like she's waiting for everyone to give up and leave or for Russia to nuke us. Then she doesn't have to be seen again defending the liar.

[Phoenix61]

8. Poor little snowflakes

They knew exactly what he was like when they took a job with this administration. Considering they can't get a date at least they won't be breeding anytime soon.

[Takket]

10. "Depressed and Ready to Bail"

we've all be sailing on this barge of the damned since November 6, 2016......... welcome aboard!

[Hekate]

12. Poor things

[NastyRiffraff]

13. "Because of morality"?

Seriously, many young staff people, that's why you wanted to work in the TRUMP White House? You all must have the attention spans of gnats.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. "Nobody wants to take on the public heat of resigning right now"

What public heat? A bad tweet from Trump?

The public expects firings and resignations. It's what defines the Trump administration.

[peggysue2]

16. Morality???

Morality attracted them to the Trumpster. WTF were they smoking? His abysmal relationship with and betrayal of women was on the record (and video--the famous 'grab 'em by the pussy' fiasco), he's been a bigot throughout his life and his claim to fame in business is an absolute sham, having stiffed contractors and tradesmen in his many failed, mob-tied enterprises.

The man is the antithesis of morality, and he has lived up to his history with every passing day.

Sorry but these staffers don't get off the hook that easily. When you sell your soul, you should not be surprised that the Devil cheats and/or that things can get dicey.

This stink will follow them for a long, long time.

[Garrett78]

17. To echo what others have said and always say when stories like this appear...

...these same individuals apparently had no problem with overt racism, sexual assault, mocking a person with a disability, kidnapping children and putting them in cages, and so on.

They are deplorable. Every last one of them.

[milestogo]

18. "the issue that drew many young staff people to want to work in the Trump White House is morality"

[GoCubsGo]

19. Tough shit.

Bed. Made. Lie.

[Mc Mike]

20. Their only hope for a future career is for them to quit, flip,

and immediately go publicly on the attack with loud denunciations of d Rump.