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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFISA related: Boris Epshteyn, special assistant to the president, & transition team **FIRED**
Last edited Sat Mar 25, 2017, 10:13 PM - Edit history (1)
(Like Nunes) expected to leave his current post in the administration.Read below about the news story Louise Mensch broke. This guy just may have been pointed to.
Update: Now Fired, not just leaving.
Boris Epshteyn, an official in the White House press office who had a contentious relationship with television producers and was once a frequent presence on TV himself, has been let go from his job, according to three people with knowledge of the move.
The departure was treated with some mystery. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, would not comment on the reason Mr. Epshteyn, an old friend of President Trumps son Eric, was let go.
A senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said only that officials were exploring other opportunities in the administration for Mr. Epshteyn, who at one point was on cable news as many as seven times a day promoting Mr. Trump during the presidential campaign.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/us/politics/boris-epshteyn-white-house-press-official-is-let-go-from-his-job.html?smid=tw-share
Boris Epshteyn, a special assistant to the president who oversees Donald Trump's television surrogate operation, is expected to leave his high-profile post, multiple sources close to the administration told POLITICO.
The well known, combative talking head, who fiercely defended Trump on television during the campaign first as a surrogate and then as a paid campaign staffer, is expected to remain in the administration, but possibly in a less visible role.
"We are discussing opportunities within the Administration," a senior administration official said in an email Saturday night.
Epshteyn did not respond to a request for comment on Saturday night.
Link: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/boris-ephsteyn-trump-leaving-236506
Edited to add that this is in the original story Louise Mensch broke about the FISA Warrant.
Link to tweet
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Link to original story about the FISA Warrant: https://heatst.com/world/exclusive-fbi-granted-fisa-warrant-covering-trump-camps-ties-to-russia/
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Link to tweet
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GP6971
(31,141 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)I updated the OP to reflect this.
GP6971
(31,141 posts)I hope that dolt45 travel restrictions apply to these criminals leaving the country, but that's a pipe dream.
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Is one between DC and Mar-a-lago.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Be funny if a whole herd of them left, thinking they each were the one......
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)dalton99a
(81,456 posts)This is the asshole who left out the Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)dalton99a
(81,456 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)I remember a conversation starting off with Hillary vs tRumputin, but ending up dealing with racism, and I remember him saying that while he was proud to be Russian, he's equally proud to be living his dreams of representing tRumputin in this great country (USA), a country where all anybody had to do was work hard and apply themselves, and their dreams could become reality.
What a bunch of BULL from a lying, crooked, POS, BS artist. One of the guests on the show asked him if he ever heard of Jim Crow, segregation or a need for passage of civil/voting rights legislation. Of course *crickets* after being checked, and it's difficult to shut that fools mouth up, because all he does is talk, talk, talk and gish-gallop.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)that's saying something
remember his unstinting, obnoxiously, unsufferably, unhalting, unalterable contention that Melania absolutely did NOT palgiarize any PART of Michelle's speech? he put the ass in assure when he, with utmost certainty, insisted that anyone accusing her of this was beyond contempt
then, all of a sudden, he refused to discuss it. wonder why that was.......
those were the days
Bore USSSSS, we hardly missed ye, ye giant PRICK!
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)tweets and such! Word to the wise: do NOT get in Ms. Mensch's crosshairs if you don't have to!
"Run, Borrest, run!"
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)I gotta do something about this twitter addiction.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)Twitter Anon, here I come.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Louise Mensch
@LouiseMensch
You know who was a member of the Transition Team? Boris Epshteyn. Is that not the case, @DevinNunes?
6:09 PM - 25 Mar 2017
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)LOL!
Thrill
(19,178 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)Boris was a true believer... lying his ass off for Trump on TV
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Trump: ''Take her bodyguards' guns away. Let's see what happens to her!"
in which, at post 11, I apparently saw Boris say, in defense, that DT's comment was sarcastic
and napkinz kindly provided this:
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)They are shitting themselves.
orangecrush
(19,546 posts)MelissaB
(16,420 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)She is a conspiracy monger and not much else.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/08/is-conspiracy-queen-louise-mensch-right-about-donald-trump.html
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)The other sources are from the NYTimes and Politico. You got a problem with those as well?
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)has been on the money...I take every word I read anywhere now with many teaspoons of salt, but I read her a LOT - plus she's funny as hell.
I first found her via a Nance retweet - I got the impression they had a falling out, but didn't know he called her "batshit crazy!" Damn!
But I read them both routinely, and I believe with all my heart they are both kicking some serious trumputin ass on my dear country's behalf, so - I'm stickin with 'em!
womanofthehills
(8,701 posts)She has been right on. I also like the Bill Palmer Report - the two of them seem way ahead of the mainstream news. Many on here seem to have a problem with Palmer, but when I ask them to point out something he has gotten wrong in the last few months, I never get an answer.
babylonsister
(171,057 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)+1 million.
He needs to take his lying, gish-galloping, obnoxious butt back to where he came from.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)Cha
(297,171 posts)"dishonest"?
HurricaneWarning
(220 posts)it's not a great idea to have a surrogate that is named Boris.
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)uponit7771
(90,335 posts)ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)There is no way this guy could pass a security clearance.....
FreeStateDemocrat
(2,654 posts)" In June 2013, Epshteyn marked the passing of Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg by publicly thanking him for creating legislation that helped Epshteyn's family to emigrate to the United States: "... it was the Lautenberg amendment ... passed in 1990 [which] loosened the restriction on refugee states and thereby allowed for tens of thousands of Jews like me from the former USSR to come to America."[3][4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Epshteyn