NO! I refuse to believe that the W.H. staff, with only the BEST people, is a circular firing squad.

[Miles Archer]

The ALL want to work for him!

He only hires the BEST people!

This CANNOT be TRUE.

After eight years of a presidency known as “no drama-Obama,” once again the Trump White House has taken another path. Axios reported Sunday that Trump brought communications staff together in the Oval Office after the leak was out. It was then that Trump promised Sadler she would not be fired, but that he wanted to know who the leakers were.

Sadler, Mercedes Schlapp, Raj Shah, and John Kelly were all present, though the door remained open for anyone to overhear what was being said to further leak to reporters. Sadler blamed Schlapp, her boss, for being one of the worst leakers, the source revealed. Schlapp defended herself and in subsequent conversations following the meeting.

Sadler then proceeded to sing about other staffers she named as leakers. However, pointing fingers at leakers has become the new way to attack someone a staffer does not like, knowing that it is a powerful tool that prompts Trump to react. There’s never any evidence presented with the accusation, merely the finger pointing.

“The allegation — like a previous internal meeting to deal with leaking — ultimately got leaked to us,” Axios reported, poking fun.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/white-house-aides-fights-front-president-pointing-fingers-leakers-report/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Skip Raw Story's clickbait. The whole story is at Axios, here:

https://www.axios.com/oval-office-leak-kelly-sadler-mercedes-schlapp-trump-0b622aa7-6719-47f0-89eb-8d12008f7cd9.html

[Miles Archer]

2. They seem to be heading further in that direction

Maybe it's time for me to wean myself off of R.S.

I did that with Huffington Post, which is barely worth a look these days.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Yeah, they used to be pretty good, but now they seem to specialize

in overheated headlines and lots of ads, so I prefer to go directly to the source. HuffPost is pretty much unreadable now, too.