People are scared: Paranoia seizes Trumps White House

[brooklynite]

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Source: Politico

A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies—inside their own government.

In interviews, nearly a dozen White House aides and federal agency staffers described a litany of suspicions: that rival factions in the administration are trying to embarrass them, that civil servants opposed to President Donald Trump are trying to undermine him, and even that a “deep state” of career military and intelligence officials is out to destroy them.

Aides are going to great lengths to protect themselves. They’re turning off work-issued smartphones and putting them in drawers when they arrive home from work out of fear that they could be used to eavesdrop. They’re staying mum in meetings out of concern that their comments could be leaked to the press by foes.

Many are using encrypted apps that automatically delete messages once they’ve been read, or are leaving their personal cell phones at home in case their bosses initiate phone checks of the sort that press secretary Sean Spicer deployed last month to identify leakers on his team.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-white-house-paranoia-236069

[George II]

1. This is after only 54 days and no crises to handle (other than protecting their butts)

[Lochloosa]

8. Actually they do have a crisis to handle....they just aren't

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028794437

[C_U_L8R]

2. They should be.

I'd be sparkling up my resume and out interviewing with a crazy boss like that.

[heaven05]

3. much more paranoia, please

much more internal suspicion please. Much more backstabbing please, much more bleeding repuliKKKans please, metaphorically speaking of course.

[blueseas]

5. +1001

It is what they do best

[azureblue]

4. so what can be done

to make them even more paranoid? Leak fake news under one of their names, perhaps? Turn one against another with more fake news? Treat them like a bunch of gossipy mean girls?

[Kolesar]

6. "Your cellphones are *not in order*" -- Josef "Spicey" Goebbels

This is hilarious. Federal agency officials are calling Vogel and Eisenstadt after hours to tell them it's blowing up.

[n2doc]

7. It's the Ides of March, Donald

Et Tu Bannon?

[Phoenix61]

9. I'm not positive, but isn't this 45's management style?

Encourage conflict between groups in the belief that the ones with the best ideas will win.

[DonViejo]

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