Trump aides begin looking for the exits

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




After a wave of high-profile White House departures this summer, staffers who remained are reaching out to headhunters to discuss their next moves.

By NANCY COOK 09/22/2017 05:02 AM EDT Updated 09/22/2017 07:28 AM EDT

A fast-growing number of White House staffers are starting to look for the exits, even though the one-year mark of President Donald Trump’s first term is still months away.

Many who joined the administration in January did so with the explicit idea that they’d stay for at least a year, enough to credibly say they’d served. But in the aftermath of a wave of abrupt, high-profile departures over the summer that culminated with former strategist Steve Bannon’s ouster in August, aides up and down the chain are reaching out to headhunters, lobbyists, and GOP operatives for help finding their next job.

Staffers from the National Economic Council—where director Gary Cohn is expected to be on his way out altogether after tax reform or onto a different role—as well as the communications shop and beyond are quietly exploring their next moves. They’re talking to headhunters about positions as in-house government affairs experts at major companies, or as executives at trade associations, universities, or consulting firms – ironically, jobs that run counter to Trump’s “drain the swamp” mantra.

Political appointees want to leave for myriad reasons, according to recruiters, Republican operatives, and White House officials. Morale is low, the Russia investigations only seem to grow in scope, and constant churn at the top has left some staffers without patrons in a workplace known for back-biting and a tribal-like attitude.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/22/trump-aides-staffers-departures-white-house-242990

[underpants]

1. Damn people who get involved with Trump later regret it

Who could've seen THAT coming?!??

[rock]

13. Or as I thought when first read the OP

Now? NOW? Timing is everything!

[Pachamama]

2. What about their loyalty oaths?

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

8. "loyalty" is just another

Word to these types, that carries no actual meaning. Like morality, integrity or, most especially honesty.

Complete gibberish to these folks.

[ffr]

11. In their defense, they don't really know what any of those words mean anyway

So how can they be held to account, right?

Being a grifter has so many perks!

[Sunlei]

3. hard on people who really love their work,to see the destruction of beautiful places for R greed.

[Corgigal]

4. They served?

What exactly do they serve? Putting a year of working in the White House on your resume is for your personal catalog. Now go join the military, coast guard looking busy. If you want to serve, then fucking serve and do the sacrifice.

[marylandblue]

5. They want to be "in house government affairs experts"

Who would hire them to do that now?

[dalton99a]

6. The world knows the orange dotard only hires the best people

the very best

[Hortensis]

14. Yes, I was imagining the intense competition out there for them. Just think of

the very rare and invaluable experience they've gotten in backstabbing, infighting, trashing procedure manuals, and methods of leaking confidential information.

[Achilleaze]

7. They have an urgent need for republicans in Siberia

so get your freaking republican asses away from our US government, and go cozy up with your freaking evil empire* sweethearts.

* per ronald freakin reagan

[n2doc]

9. Trump's definition of 'Drain the Swamp" get rid of Democrats and competent Bureaucrats

in the Government. That's what he meant, and what the Trumpsters want too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Agent Orange is toxic. . . nt

[niyad]

12. I have not the slightest bit of sympathy for these people. anybody who thought the orange

madman was a credible employer, anybody who deliberately CHOSE to work with this disgusting replicant, deserves what happens to them.

[Dave Starsky]

15. "Mr. Smith, there's a gap on your resume here."

"Can you tell us what you were doing during this time? I mean, between your experience in Washington D.C. as a highly paid political consultant and when you started your job on the ice cream counter at Thrifty Drug? These dates appear to coincide EXACTLY with the Donald Trump administration."

(bites lip and looks around) "Well, actually... during that time... I was offering blow jobs to strangers on Pennsylvania Avenue in exchange for loose change, gum, and subway tokens."

(nods, smiling) "That's good."

[roamer65]

16. Looks like the rearrangement of deck chairs is ending.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. If I ever got a CV citing work in the Trump WH/Admin,

that resume would go right in the nearest trash can.