White House on edge: 'We are kind of helpless'
I have no empathy for them. None at all.
White House on edge: 'We are kind of helpless'
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-white-house-on-edge-238482
Recent scandals have left White House staff feeling besieged.
By Josh Dawsey and Matthew Nussbaum
05/17/2017 12:01 AM EDT
“Nobody knows where this really goes from here,” said one White House official. | Getty
It was, in the words of one senior White House official, the worst day of Trump’s presidency.
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“Nobody knows where this really goes from here,” the White House official said. “Everyone is walking around saying, ‘What is next?’”
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Staffers shuttled back and forth among West Wing offices debating what to say without divulging confidential material or getting anything wrong. A deflated and exhausted Sean Spicer, who continues to read reports that his job is in jeopardy while he works 12 hours every day in his office, huddled in his office with chief of staff Reince Priebus.
There was a pervasive sense, another official said, that “we are kind of helpless.”
...............But inside the White House, there was a struggle to get any surrogates on TV because no one knew what to say or how to defend the story, one White House adviser said. At one point in the evening, Fox News host Bret Baier told viewers that “there are not Republicans willing to go on camera tonight as of yet.”
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