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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Looking Like a Liar or a Fool: What It Means to Work for Trump
Yet, there is no shortage of Republicans who want to work for Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/us/politics/trump-sean-spicer-sarah-huckabee-sanders.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
WASHINGTON President Trump has never shown any reluctance to sacrifice a surrogate to serve a short-term political need, so he apparently did not think twice this week about exposing a series of staff members to ridicule as he repeatedly shifted his explanation for firing James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director.
Mr. Trump, obsessed with the F.B.I.s investigation into Russias meddling in the 2016 election and increasingly frustrated by the hyper-scrutiny of the Washington press corps, is more in need of effective spokesmen than ever, and aides say he is considering a broad shake-up of his team.
But his career-long habit of viewing his public protectors as somewhat disposable, on vivid display after Mr. Comeys sudden ouster, has not exactly been an incentive to step into the firing line on his behalf.
After the Access Hollywood scandal, Mr. Trump raged at Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, for going on TV to defend him, arguing that he wanted to attack Hillary Clinton, not play defense. Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trumps 2016 campaign manager until he fired him, repeatedly groused to friends that he was forced to absorb all of the criticism for the campaigns practice of confining reporters at rallies in small pens. Mr. Trump, he told two people close to him, had ordered him to do it but placed the blame on Mr. Lewandowski when reporters complained about it.
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'Looking Like a Liar or a Fool: What It Means to Work for Trump (Original Post)
TomCADem
May 2017
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Badscooter1
(24 posts)1. Putins puppet
Fuck trump
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)2. Welcome to DU. As your welcome gift, here's an
apostrophe '. Grammar Nazis are abundant in these parts. Oh, today only a period is thrown in too-..
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. Let's not be cheap with our new member.
We can afford 2 periods.
Welcome, Badscooter.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)4. I missed that one. n/t
Badscooter1
(24 posts)6. Thanks
But the real nazis are in the whitehouse. What about the t in fuck trump?
dawg
(10,624 posts)5. If they had any sense of shame, they wouldn't have taken their jobs in the first place.
Lots of people did, in fact, turn them down.
Shameful, hateful people.