Trump’s Personal Assistant Resigns After Spilling Deets About First Family To Reporters

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 2: Madeleine Westerhout watches as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with North Korean defectors in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, Feb. 02, 2018... WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 2: Madeleine Westerhout watches as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with North Korean defectors in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC on Friday, Feb. 02, 2018. President Donald Trump talked to reporters and members of the media about the release of a secret memo on the F.B.I.'s role in the Russia inquiry. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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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. 

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  1. Poor girl. I’m sure she’s broken up about not being a part of this dumpster fire administration!

  2. So can we expect her book by the election? She has to have some pretty good dirt on trump.

  3. Avatar for noonm noonm says:

  4. Avatar for ajoguy ajoguy says:

    “while Trump spent a working-vacation at his golf club…”

    Really, “working-vacation”?

  5. some additional detail from CNN

    Madeleine Westerhout was forced to resign as executive assistant to the President on Thursday after Trump learned she had shared information with reporters at a recent off-the-record meeting, during which she didn’t say her comments were off the record, according to sources familiar with her departure. A reporter divulged details about the dinner to White House staff, the people said.

    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.

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