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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 06:40 PM Feb 2019

Oval Office Director rants about "hundreds of calls and meetings @realDonaldTrump takes everyday"

Madeleine Westerhout

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@madwest45

Madeleine Westerhout Retweeted Axios

What a disgraceful breach of trust to leak schedules. What these don’t show are the hundreds of calls and meetings @realDonaldTrump takes everyday. This POTUS is working harder for the American people than anyone in recent history.


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RockRaven

(14,966 posts)
7. that tweet should generate headline: TRUMP'S WHITE HOUSE STAFF ADMITS FALSIFYING OFFICIAL RECORDS
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 06:54 PM
Feb 2019

Think about it. It's not a "leak" if it is fabricated... So by calling this a leak, she is acknowledging the schedules ARE the schedules. But the schedules, by her own assertion, do not show the meeting and phone calls he actually engages in. One must assume some fraction of those meetings and calls are planned, they cannot plausibly all be spontaneous, so keeping them off the schedule is intentional deception.

Why is the White House generating falsified and misleading records? Who is he meeting with that they are trying to hide from the press and the American people? Hmmm???

This rebuttal, in addition to likely being false, merely makes Trump look bad in a different way. And lazy looks less bad than deceitful and corrupt, imo. That's badly done, Ms. Westerhout.

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
8. "It's disgraceful to leak his empty schedule. Very disgraceful! Very very disgraceful!
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 06:57 PM
Feb 2019

That's what people are saying. Many people! Many many people! What next? How low will they go? That's what people are saying. I'm not making this up. You could ask them."

procon

(15,805 posts)
13. Nah. Do the math. There's not enough time
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 09:01 PM
Feb 2019

for hours he already devotes to his special Executive TV Time, or the playtime daily briefing activity book, then snacktime, potty time, lunchtime, Brother Hannity's Psychic Hotline, more snacks with entertainment provided by praise chanting sycophants, and still hold "hundreds" of additional calls and meetings, too.

Unless... Trump's super powers lets him compress time, or he's stuck in the same bizzaro alternate universe where the Matrix is.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
17. Looks like Madeleine is Hope Hicks' replacement
Sun Feb 3, 2019, 11:27 PM
Feb 2019
The sole way of reaching Trump, according to the president, is a woman named Madeleine. “Did you speak to Madeleine?” the president asked Woodward.

No, the journalist replied.

“Madeleine is the key,” Trump said. “She’s the secret. Because she’s the person—”

Trump didn’t finish the thought, alas. But his description of Madeleine Westerhout, his 27-year-old executive assistant, piqued our interest.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/09/04/madeleine-is-the-key-who-is-madeleine-westerhout-trumps-27-year-old-secretary-and-gatekeeper-to-the-president/?utm_term=.3c5f2beab5e6

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