White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is breaking her silence after recent leaks of comments made during an internal White House staff meeting last week. Conway is ready to fire everyone involved.
“I had several discussions with the president on this very topic today,” Conway opined during a recent interview. And she fully expects immediate personnel changes.
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Conway’s warning came hours after Trump also condemned White House leakers as “traitors and cowards.” He has vowed to discover the source of the problem.
This situation started after it was reported that communications staffer Kelly Sadler made a mean joke about Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and his fatal brain cancer diagnosis. Sadler said during an internal staff meeting that McCain’s views about Trump’s CIA director nominee Gina Haspel “doesn’t matter” because “he’s dying anyway.”
Deputy press secretary Raj Shan said the issue was handled “internally” and didn’t share additional details. But it’s clear the White House has a serious leaking problem, where staffers with vendettas are using leaks to “shiv each other.” This sort of harsh political infighting makes it harder to promote and defend President Trump’s conservative agenda.
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Here is a video of Conway’s interview on Fox News. She means business:
Conway ends interview by remarking that she expects White House personnel changes as a result of the sort of leaks Trump denounced on Twitter this afternoon pic.twitter.com/TAiweTNd6W
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 14, 2018
The so-called leaks coming out of the White House are a massive over exaggeration put out by the Fake News Media in order to make us look as bad as possible. With that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards, and we will find out who they are!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 14, 2018
Now, “men in suits” are supposedly using large technical devices to track down unauthorized cellphones and expose the leakers. They will be found and immediately terminated:
The men roam throughout halls and rooms to sweep for items such as personal phones, which they detect using a handheld device, inside sources told CNN. If something is detected, they’ll ask if anyone forgot to put away their phone, giving them a chance to come forward.
That’s taken as an extra precautionary step on top of ordering staffers to stash away all personal devices in their cars or in lockers by the entrances to the West Wing, the outlet reported.
While inside the building, they’re prohibited to use the devices throughout the entirety of the workday. Aides told CNN that’s resulted in crowds of officials gathering around the lockers to check the loads of messages that have piled up on their phones while they’ve been gone.
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They really have to know who the REAL LEAKERS ARE BY NOW. There is no excuse after
all this time not to have the goods on the ones who are doing it. Kellyanne Conway said she
knew on one show who they were or was guessing…why are they still there? All of them are
among the smartest people around and they can’t plan a ploy to catch them? Come on….
Every Obama holdover should resign. Wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. Any one who is caught leaking information should be terminated immediately and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That is what a traitor is.
Remember when Trump promised that he would hire “the best”?
These leakers are the people he hired.
Here are the Steps; 1) Determine who is/are leaking WH Information, 2) Strip them of Any & All Security Clearances, 3) Charge them with the appropriate Crime(s), 4) Arrest them and put them in Prison! Next!
‘Leak” are very complicated but they violate federal law, which applies to anyone who “knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States’
So, irregardless of the intent, if the leak falls into the description above you may very well have leaker’s committing criminal acts, punishable by law.
ON THE ONE HAND, McCain has some strong opinions about torture because he was tortured as a prisoner. His arms were pulled out of his sockets. McCain could never put his hands up in surrender because he has not been able to lift them above his head. ON THE OTHER HAND, Muhammadans have been robbers, rapists, blackmailers , torturers, and murderers of unarmed men, women, and children. They justify that because Muhammad did it. BOTTOM LINE: We do not want to become the enemy by imitating the enemy. We save some lives with the intelligence from torture, but it generates as much or more violence with its martyrdom. Spies out of uniform are convicted of a war crime are given a summary execution in the field under the Geneva Convention. Let’s stick with the law.
Maybe take a page out of the Clinton playbook – when leakers are found they simply disappear or commit suicide. It has worked for the Clintons people are scared to death to tell the truth about them.
I completely miss the point of white house employees needed to check text messages and personal messages moment by moment. At 65, I well recall working for the department of treasury, the department of defense, the red cross and a few other employers and at no time did i bring my cell phone, or tablets or blackberry to work or carry it around like a second brain.
land lines had secretary’s, answering machines and operators. If it was so important it demanded my immediate attention, I would be told as appropriate.
far to many self important people forget what they do, their actual worth, and their positions. factually, the US president is the only person within our federal government who needs real time updates. The Associate Assistant Chief of legume production in the Department of Agriculture has no such need.
This information age has constricted, denied the time spent and dissipated the attention given to focus on the job. If a husband, wife or child needs to speak to you immediately, you have not set up your resources correctly. this entire brouhaha is simply a tempest in a tea pot. No one ‘needs’ to be that informed, so much so it can not wait 4-8 hours. barring a MVA and emergency hospitalization or the EQ, nothing can be that important.
I can’t imagine any reason, in the current state of anarchy prevalent in our government and throughout Washington DC that anyone should expect to be allowed a cell phone, recorder or any taping devise during the work day. It’s time our President’s privacy is honored and he is allowed to government as is directed by his position as head of the executive branch of the US government. Close the leaks!
YES…Americans don’t need to know what is going on in OUR government…we are already in the dark about most of what these thieves, liars, cheaters, phony, two faced, dishonest SOB’s are up to on a daily basis…and when we do get some information, it’s usually after all the damage has been done!
Any and ALL leakers should be fired, censured AND “blacklisted” so they will never be able to hold any government position.
Wish the F–ker would die already! His Judgement awaits him!
Every one leaking should be fired and barred from all federal employment as soon as identified. Can’t permit this type of insubordination and focus on doing the work to be done. No exceptions
I love Kelly Ann…..a GREAT American. I hope she doesn’t talk to her husband about in house goings on. I don’t trust him. HE would leak. I wish she would unload the idiot.
What are they waiting for, get the job done and move forward!
There is a very simple process used by all intelligence agencies. It’s called a Polygraph Test. There is also a Voice Stress Analysis Test. Have the white house staff gather in a meeting room. Then announce that these tests will be given to everyone before they can leave. See the ones that try to leave early. Fire them. I believe that every administration employee signs a release that, as a part of their employment, they can be subject to a Polygraph Test at any time without notification.
Trump is correct, leakers are despicable cowards & deserve to be fired. If terminations happened immediately after a leak it would be a clear example to all the others – open your mouth to leak, no matter what your reason & you won’t have a job. Comey is the perfect poster boy for leakers. Trump needs to also get rid of ANY/ALL cabinet members who previously worked for Obozo, Clinton or either Bush.
Names of every leaker should be made public and then FIRED immediately. This crap has got to stop!
When people act like children who have not been taught honesty, integrity they have to be cheated like children and monitored carefully.
Step one – Purge all Ovomits people and replace them as needed.
It is time for a complete “purge” of all people who are not on board with the presidents agenda. They are creating problems and issues that don’t need to be there. These leakers are dangerous to the security of the country and the fake news needs to pay the price for putting out unverified information to the public. The constant effort by these traitors to undermine and discredit everything the president tries to do is hurting the progress for America. Besides being fired, these people should be charged with sedition and if necessary…treason if it applies. These political games are a travesty and need to stop…the game is over..the election is long over…the president needs to be able to do what he was elected to do without interference from self appointed resistance fools.
GET RID OF THEM PRONTO AND EXPOSE WHO THEY ARE.
They shold be fired. and in the most shameful way possible
Well Marilyn, it appears you have the inside information on hiring/firing practices in the white house.
Maybe you are one of the leakers, or have a friend that may be a leaker? Kelley Ann may or may not be able to fire anyone except her staff, I’m positive she carries a lot of weight in the day to day activities in the White House. And especially of it could come down to a security issue. A load of BS? Maybe Secret Service or whatever intel agency is checking out the leakers, they may want to check your IP address and pay YOU a visit?
yada yada yada…. she has no authority to fire anyone
The sabotage being leveled at this POTUS & his administration is horrendous. I agree with Linda…no devices of any kind in staff meetings. It is horrid the FBI, an organization who is supposed to act in the best interest of the American people, is involved in such underhanded behavior.
– and they should be fired.
I think they should aggressively find out who the leakers are, and escort them Out of the White House!! Fire anyone leaking information, if it’s a Senator/Congressman, bar them from entry to any closed door meetings! Some things are better left behind the closed doors!!
Good job Marc! Marilyn is NOT her name either, she took that because of me (it’s actually my name & I stood up to her last year). She is a young lesbian Democrap who can’t get over the fact that her beloved Hillary didn’t win. She claimed to own a PR firm, which was a lie, I did some digging & she is a web designer for stores like Kmart. Her real name is Sue Everson & she used to post under the title of jeansandjackets. She is a hateful, vulger, nasty woman & I’m sure if her clients saw what she writes she wouldn’t have any business.
Marilyn, as an american you can be as uninformed, as vocal and as profoundly antagonistic as you chose. That is your right.
As your fellow Americans we too have rights. We can point you out as a fool, as a seditionist, and as an anti-american, and dismiss your opinions as trash. We have done that. Go play with the other faux vegetables and assure each other you alone have the vision required to run a national government while the adults clean up the mess you and your fellow pea pods left us in the past few decades.
Why do you suppose we can’t block her on this site? We can on Disqus.
marilyn is a soulless communist troll for whom her/its sole purpose of existence is to do the bidding of what ever lefty demigod is demagogging its way to the top slot of a mob of perfidious calumniators also known as the democrat party. Good luck and good hunting!
So are you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like it.
that’s a load of BS.
I agree. Just like teenagers in high school have to turn their phones in before class, these juveniles that are stirring up trouble as much as they can should be treated as juveniles.
I wouldn’t allow any cell phones in the White House at all,especially when meetings are taking place.None in the hallways or from outsiders at all.
They really have to know who the REAL LEAKERS ARE BY NOW. There is no excuse after
all this time not to have the goods on the ones who are doing it. Kellyanne Conway said she
knew on one show who they were or was guessing…why are they still there? All of them are
among the smartest people around and they can’t plan a ploy to catch them? Come on….
Every Obama holdover should resign. Wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. Any one who is caught leaking information should be terminated immediately and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That is what a traitor is.
Remember when Trump promised that he would hire “the best”?
These leakers are the people he hired.
Here are the Steps; 1) Determine who is/are leaking WH Information, 2) Strip them of Any & All Security Clearances, 3) Charge them with the appropriate Crime(s), 4) Arrest them and put them in Prison! Next!
‘Leak” are very complicated but they violate federal law, which applies to anyone who “knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States’
So, irregardless of the intent, if the leak falls into the description above you may very well have leaker’s committing criminal acts, punishable by law.
ON THE ONE HAND, McCain has some strong opinions about torture because he was tortured as a prisoner. His arms were pulled out of his sockets. McCain could never put his hands up in surrender because he has not been able to lift them above his head. ON THE OTHER HAND, Muhammadans have been robbers, rapists, blackmailers , torturers, and murderers of unarmed men, women, and children. They justify that because Muhammad did it. BOTTOM LINE: We do not want to become the enemy by imitating the enemy. We save some lives with the intelligence from torture, but it generates as much or more violence with its martyrdom. Spies out of uniform are convicted of a war crime are given a summary execution in the field under the Geneva Convention. Let’s stick with the law.
Maybe take a page out of the Clinton playbook – when leakers are found they simply disappear or commit suicide. It has worked for the Clintons people are scared to death to tell the truth about them.
I completely miss the point of white house employees needed to check text messages and personal messages moment by moment. At 65, I well recall working for the department of treasury, the department of defense, the red cross and a few other employers and at no time did i bring my cell phone, or tablets or blackberry to work or carry it around like a second brain.
land lines had secretary’s, answering machines and operators. If it was so important it demanded my immediate attention, I would be told as appropriate.
far to many self important people forget what they do, their actual worth, and their positions. factually, the US president is the only person within our federal government who needs real time updates. The Associate Assistant Chief of legume production in the Department of Agriculture has no such need.
This information age has constricted, denied the time spent and dissipated the attention given to focus on the job. If a husband, wife or child needs to speak to you immediately, you have not set up your resources correctly. this entire brouhaha is simply a tempest in a tea pot. No one ‘needs’ to be that informed, so much so it can not wait 4-8 hours. barring a MVA and emergency hospitalization or the EQ, nothing can be that important.
I can’t imagine any reason, in the current state of anarchy prevalent in our government and throughout Washington DC that anyone should expect to be allowed a cell phone, recorder or any taping devise during the work day. It’s time our President’s privacy is honored and he is allowed to government as is directed by his position as head of the executive branch of the US government. Close the leaks!
Any and ALL leakers should be fired, censured AND “blacklisted” so they will never be able to hold any government position.
YES…Americans don’t need to know what is going on in OUR government…we are already in the dark about most of what these thieves, liars, cheaters, phony, two faced, dishonest SOB’s are up to on a daily basis…and when we do get some information, it’s usually after all the damage has been done!
Wish the F–ker would die already! His Judgement awaits him!
Every one leaking should be fired and barred from all federal employment as soon as identified. Can’t permit this type of insubordination and focus on doing the work to be done. No exceptions
I love Kelly Ann…..a GREAT American. I hope she doesn’t talk to her husband about in house goings on. I don’t trust him. HE would leak. I wish she would unload the idiot.