Sickening: WH official tells Washington Post that mass shooting was a 'reprieve' from their scandals

[babylonsister]

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Sickening: WH official tells Washington Post that mass shooting was a 'reprieve' from their scandals
By Jen Hayden
Monday Feb 19, 2018 · 3:23 PM EST


The Trump White House has been faced with one scandal after another from the minute he took office. Last week was a particularly bad one. The adult film star he allegedly had an affair with said her $130,000 hush money agreement was null and void and she was ready to talk. A former Playboy model stepped forward to detail her 9-month-long affair with a recently married Donald Trump in 2006. The White House backed and then backed away from Rob Porter, Trump’s staff secretary who reportedly physically abused both his former wives and inexplicably got hired by the Trump White House, despite an FBI background check finding credible evidence he was abusive and open to blackmail. And then, of course, came the tragedy in Florida, where a former student used an assault weapon to commit mass murder at his former high school.

At least one White House official said the tragedy gave the White House staff just the break they needed. From the Washington Post:

“For everyone, it was a distraction or a reprieve,” said one White House official, speaking anonymously to reflect internal conversations. “A lot of people here felt like it was a reprieve from seven or eight days of just getting pummeled.”

The official likened the brief political calm to the aftermath of the October 2017 gun massacre in Las Vegas that left 58 dead and hundreds more injured. That tragedy united White House aides and the country in their shared mourning for the victims and their families.

“But as we all know, sadly, when the coverage dies down a little bit, we’ll be back through the chaos,” the official said.

Absolutely sickening.

[johnp3907]

1. Scum.

But we knew that.

[CTyankee]

2. WHAT?

Jeez, these assholes!

Just when you've recovered from one outrage, along comes another and another and another...

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired....

[MustLoveBeagles]

3. Gross

[3catwoman3]

4. Here's a novel idea for getting a reprieve from scandals -

- stop acting like entitled, insensitive assholes.

[Snackshack]

5. Yes,

It is sickening.

No one is making these people stay. Any of them could leave at anytime if it is that bad that they would make a comment like this. They have chosen to remain in their job on Cadet Bone Spurs administration. What is the major malfunction these people have...wow.

[politicaljunkie41910]

6. I don't see how they consider it a 'reprieve'. To me it's just a continuation of

their lousy business as usually. Let's see, first he blamed the shooting on the FBI. Then he made a big announcement that he was going down to Florida to visit the families and the injured. He got into a screaming fight with Melania, kicked the media off the plane, and spent a total of 20 minutes on site at the hospital visiting the medical staff, the families, and the injured, and then left. He spent the next three days golfing when not tweeting. Refused to mention the easy access to high powered guns that killed the students. And refused to acknowledge the students grievances that the relative ease of access to high powered weapons were making their schools unsafe.

[mainstreetonce]

7. That person's name

Should have been disclosed.

[MoonRiver]

8. I heard that. Hope the entire world did too.

This is the scum we are dealing with!