National Journal: Trumps dismissed ushers before Bidens' arrival

[Nevilledog]

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National Journal: Trumps dismissed ushers before Bidens' arrival

Trumps dismissed ushers before Bidens' arrival
The chief usher was sacked, and the staff was sent home early Wednesday, which may explain why the Bidens arrived to find the doors to the North Portico closed.
nationaljournal.com
10:49 AM · Jan 22, 2021

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[machoneman]

1. Why? To what end?

[Nevilledog]

5. Being petty.

[octoberlib]

2. JFC. The pettiest people on earth.

[denbot]

3. 100% grade F asshole.

Losers gonna be losers..

[soothsayer]

4. I was so scared they'd find them locked

Seriously.

[dalton99a]

6. "There was nobody to open the doors to the Bidens"

“It’s a big protocol breach for the president to ever stand in front of a closed door at the White House,” a veteran White House social expert said.

That same source suggested Harleth’s sacking might be to blame: "That may be why there was nobody to open the doors to the Bidens. You couldn’t expect the Biden staff to know to do that. Doors are opened and closed by ushers. There are rules about all these things and everyone has their job.”

Sidelining the ushers and sacking their boss amidst the most chaotic, intense several hours for any White House—moving one president and his family out and another in—was perhaps the final break with precedent at the end of a wholly unorthodox transition, several sources confirmed. Neither Trump met with the Bidens, transition meetings were delayed by several weeks, and Trump administration officials withheld sensitive foreign policy and national security information.

Harleth was considered an unabashed Trump loyalist in White House circles but had told associates he was hoping to stay on with the new regime. That was never going to happen beyond a decent interval, insiders told National Journal, mainly because of his close ties to the Trumps and ongoing friction between him and the scrupulously nonpartisan household staff. In November, he fired some long-serving residence staff, depriving Jill Biden and her East Wing team of more institutional experience and complicating the transition.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. "the final break with precedent at the end of a wholly unorthodox transition"

The press should put it in plain English: Dump and his family are lower than whale shit.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Terminally small-minded.

It’s takes a bit of work to be such an ass.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

9. Another petty and childlike response to tradition and decorum. Sad but not surprised. N/T

[WA-03 Democrat]

10. 100 years from now

Joe will be a Saint
Donny will be Satan

[onetexan]

11. Hm i had read Bidens dismissed the chief usher themselves. When did this happen the door was closed?

[wishstar]

12. Probably didn't want them spilling any secrets about them to the Bidens

but good riddance if they were loyalists in the cult