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applegrove

(119,079 posts)
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 05:00 PM Mar 2019

Trump's Phone Friends Are More Important Than His Staff

Trump’s Phone Friends Are More Important Than His Staff

March 16, 2019 at 9:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 43 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/16/trumps-phone-friends-are-more-important-than-his-staff/

"SNIP....

Olivia Nuzzi: “Shortly after news broke this month that Bill Shine would resign as the White House communications director and deputy chief of staff, a person knowledgeable about his decision told me the former Fox News exec had come to understand the counterintuitive dynamic that defines many of Donald Trump’s relationships: Proximity can be meaningless, as those who have his ear are often out of his sight.”

Said the person: “When you talk to him at night, you’re gonna have more impact than sitting in a room with six people.”

.....SNIP"

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Trump's Phone Friends Are More Important Than His Staff (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2019 OP
As I thought. Wellstone ruled Mar 2019 #1
Do those friends have secure encrypted lines ? C_U_L8R Mar 2019 #2
The thought of listening to that man drone on and on about himself tanyev Mar 2019 #3
I'd say it is a sign of dementia. demigoddess Mar 2019 #4
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. As I thought.
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 05:04 PM
Mar 2019

This POS has a major dissociative disorder . He is one f---ed up person and needs mental health treatment.

tanyev

(42,725 posts)
3. The thought of listening to that man drone on and on about himself
Sat Mar 16, 2019, 05:35 PM
Mar 2019

every night on the phone makes my flesh crawl. And I bet some of his phone friends feel the same way, if they’re honest. But they get the opportunity to influnce/manipulate the President of the United States of America, so they suck it up.

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