Farah, youthful and conservative, had been Pence’s press secretary and had worked for Esper. She had been friends with Hicks and had been one of Meadows’s first hires as White House chief. Trump was no longer listening. “You can have all sorts of structures and reporting mechanisms in place,” she said. “But at the end of the day, he’s going to call people up from his dining room. He’s going to bring in who he wants to. Or he’s going to have them at the residence, and you won’t even know until you get alerted by Secret Service.” It was all too much. She resigned.
