appointee attempting to assert independence from a questionable White House policy by leaking internal deliberations to the press to distance himself. The problem was that he threw a more veteran and ruthless political staffer under the bus. “That was a bad move. He brought a knife to a gun fight,” a communications aide said after reading the news article. “That fucker will be dead by morning.” If the Trump administration is good at anything, it knows how to eat its own. The cannibalistic culture is deterring good people from coming on board. Mick
