{"id":8663,"date":"2018-08-13T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:57:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T15:57:26","slug":"failures-of-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=8663","title":{"rendered":"Failures of character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, \u201cI don\u2019t love you leaving at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, there are these tweets:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1028996374174593025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;really bad things. Nasty to people &amp; would constantly miss meetings &amp; work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser &amp; nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me &#8211; until she got fired!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1029002242932834310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While I know it\u2019s \u201cnot presidential\u201d 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!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1029010124881453056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>OK &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n<p>But did you know that a low-level flunky can carry a recorder into the <i>Situation Room<\/i>, the &#8220;safe&#8221; 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&#8217;s intelligence agencies?  I sure didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<div style='width: 160px; text-align: right; border: 0px; padding: 5px; background: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; line-height: 18px;' class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\" >\n<hr>\n<p><b>&#8220;Gentlemen do not read each others&#8217; mail.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Allen Dulles<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p>It seems that there is a rule that phones and other electronics aren&#8217;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&#8217;s officers.<\/p>\n<p>Whoops.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8230; well, that&#8217;s swampy allright, but the way things work and nobody would actually care.<\/p>\n<p>But when the president is a sleaze with no sense of honor or responsibility, no sense of <i>anything<\/i> but opportunities for self-aggrandizement &#8230; 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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