We all know by now that Trump-aide Omarosa Manigault Newman recorded her firing by Chief-of-Staff John Kelly in the White House Situation Room, and today we learn that the next day she recorded a conversation with the Buffoon-in-Chief. He commiserates, claiming he knew nothing about the firing and adds, “I don’t love you leaving at all.”
Today, there are these tweets:
Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
…really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me – until she got fired!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
While I know it’s “not presidential” to take on a lowlife like Omarosa, and while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible. Sorry!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2018
OK — Trump talks out of both sides of his mouth, is incapable of meaningful friendships, will say anything. We all knew that; the White House is occupied by an amoral whore.
But did you know that a low-level flunky can carry a recorder into the Situation Room, the “safe” room for dealing with national crises, and walk out with a recording that can be e-mailed to anybody in the world, or stolen by any country’s intelligence agencies? I sure didn’t.
“Gentlemen do not read each others’ mail.”
Allen Dulles
It seems that there is a rule that phones and other electronics aren’t carried into the Situation Room, and a box where they are to be left behind, but there is no surveillance to verify compliance. To put the point a bit differently, if you work in the White House you are assumed to be an honorable grown-up who can be trusted to conduct yourself responsibly. What is more, there is no federal law against surreptitiously recording conversations in the White House, or with the federal government’s officers.
Whoops.
A lot of public sector employment is nothing but pity-gigs; we all know that. Large state bureaucracies, such as DOTs, are especially notorious dumping grounds for idiot nieces and sons-in-law. If Trump had asked the Department of the Interior if it could find a job for a friend, perhaps leading fungus walks at a remote national forest in northern Idaho, or work writing press releases for an obscure national park in North Dakota … well, that’s swampy allright, but the way things work and nobody would actually care.
But when the president is a sleaze with no sense of honor or responsibility, no sense of anything but opportunities for self-aggrandizement … birds of a feather, and all that. In the event it appears, so far, that no harm has been done. But what a pointer toward the recklessness of Donald Trump.