President Trump’s personal assistant Madeleine Westerhout resigned on Thursday, the New York Times reported.
According to two people familiar with her departure who spoke to the Times, she left the White House after Trump learned that she had shared information about Trump’s family and Oval Office operations with reporters during an off-the-record dinner earlier this month while Trump spent a working-vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Westerhout’s departure is significant, given she has served in the Trump administration since day one.
Upon learning this information, Westerhout was reportedly labeled a “separated employee” and was not allowed to enter the White House grounds Friday.
Read the Times’ full report here.
Poor girl. I’m sure she’s broken up about not being a part of this dumpster fire administration!
So can we expect her book by the election? She has to have some pretty good dirt on trump.
“while Trump spent a working-vacation at his golf club…”
Really, “working-vacation”?
some additional detail from CNN
I am going to bet that the other reporters at the dinner understood that her comments were off the record, and that the “didn’t say they were” is a red herring. Probably some Breitbart/Daily Stormer type was at the dinner…
Regardless, this is the height of unethical journalistic behavior. It would be one thing if the reporter published the story as “om the record”. Instead, he betrayed a source that he know would get fired.