2022-02-13 at 6:31 AM UTC
Man, don't they know I'm
A
God
And the rules don't apply to me?
Business Insider
Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump 'would roll his eyes at the rules, so we did, too'
kvlamis@insider.com (Kelsey Vlamis)
Former press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Trump wasn't one for following the rules.
She said staff followed his lead, thinking they wouldn't get in trouble since he was president.
The Washington Post interviewed Grisham for a story about Trump's handling of presidential documents.
Former press secretary Stephanie Grisham said following the rules wasn't exactly a priority in the Trump White House for the president or his staffers.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Grisham described the mindset that contributed to former President Donald Trump's attitude towards dealing with official documents and other laws concerning the executive branch.
"He would roll his eyes at the rules, so we did, too," Grisham said. "We weren't going to get in trouble because he's the president of the United States."
Grisham, who also served as chief of staff to the former first lady, turned on Trump after the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. She's since become an outspoken critic of the former president.
The Post interviewed Grisham as part of their reporting on Trump's treatment of documents. Earlier in the week the outlet reported Trump brought boxes of presidential records – including some that were "top secret" – with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left office.
Other reports said Trump had a habit of tearing up documents, which would violate the Presidential Records Act. The law requires all presidential records to be preserved and handed over to the National Archives and Records Administration, which collects and sorts documents related to presidential duties.
A representative for Trump did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. He has previously denied any wrongdoing.
In a statement to The Post on Saturday, a spokesman for Trump said: "This unfortunate attempt by the media to twist a story, along with the help of anonymous sources, is just another sensationalized distraction of an otherwise uneventful effort to persevere the legacy of President Trump and a good faith effort to ensure the fulfillment of the Presidential Records Act."
Grisham also told The Post she once told Trump about a potential violation of the Hatch Act, which bans some executive branch employees from engaging in certain political activities. She said he responded: "Who's the boss of the Hatch Act? It's me. So say whatever you want."
Grisham previously said Hatch Act violations were laughed off in the Trump White House, Insider reported. She said such violations were considered a "badge of honor." Her comments came after the Office of the Special Counsel, an independent federal watchdog agency, released a report in November that said 13 Trump administration officials violated the Hatch Act.
2022-02-13 at 1:09 PM UTC
The hypocrites are as angry as all hell, because they keep all the rules and are all literal saints.
2022-02-13 at 4:20 PM UTC
POLECAT
POLECAT is a motherfucking ferret
[my presentably immunised ammonification]
dem spies doe, seems if they was spyin on trump they coulda busted him by now,
shits hitting the fan lefty's, you only have a few weeks left to try to denigh the truth.
I feel good enough to post one of my cherished itoldyouso's right here in this thread on this day
I TOLD YOU SO.
2022-02-13 at 4:24 PM UTC
Republicans and Democrats are all retarded
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2022-02-13 at 4:32 PM UTC
Election officials discovered that 25,000 of the votes for Trump actually came from rats living in Polecat's house.
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2022-02-13 at 5:18 PM UTC
Man at least BLM knows you gotta get VIOLENT to get shit done. The fuck wants a peaceful revolution? It ain't happening, SUNSHINE. take a page from the BLACKS and make something happen. Stop talking about it and BE ABOUT IT NIGGA.
2022-02-13 at 5:19 PM UTC
St|1 and tech work directly for Chinese and Russian intelligence agencies. The writing is on the wall.
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2022-02-13 at 5:32 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1
BROKEN RECORD.
That's the first time I've mentioned anything like that, maybe the second in a year or two.
Broken record, coming from you, is rich. Just rich.
*WALL OF COPY PASTA NOBODY READS*
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2022-02-13 at 6:57 PM UTC
May
All Republicans
Garner
A loss while infighting amongst themselves
Business Insider
Mitch McConnell is working a behind-the-scenes campaign to make sure Trump-backed 'goofballs' don't win their primaries: report
ydzhanova@businessinsider.com (Yelena Dzhanova)
Sen. Mitch McConnell has been quietly steering a campaign to recruit potential Senate candidates.
The New York Times reported on Sunday that it's an effort to gain a GOP majority in the upper chamber.
McConnell does not want the "goofballs" backed by former President Donald Trump to win.
Sen. Mitch McConnell is trying to thwart former President Donald Trump's efforts to shape the GOP, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
McConnell and a team of allies have, for months, been leading a behind-the-scenes campaign in which they try to recruit potential Senate candidates who could go up against Trump-backed picks. It's an effort to gain a GOP majority in the Senate, The Times reported.
The campaign consists of phone calls, meetings, and polling memos, the paper said.
Even after Trump vacated office last January, lawmakers have continued to argue that he maintains a tight hold on the GOP.
Last year, for example, Sen. Lindsey Graham said he wanted to leverage Trump's influence to ensure that the Republican party takes back the House and Senate in 2022.
In December, Graham suggested that Trump will continue to shape the political sphere and party leaders need to find a way to work with him to avoid getting ostracized.
"If you want to be a Republican leader in the House or the Senate and you don't have a relationship with Donald Trump, you cannot be effective. So I hope we'll get on the same page here," The South Carolina lawmaker said.
The Republican party can't "grow" without him, Graham said last year.
And among Republican voters, support for Trump still remains strong. An October poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that 78% of Republicans want to see Trump in the 2024 presidential election. That number went up from May by 12 percentage points.
McConnell, however, believes that Trump is "losing political altitude," The Times said.
Since leaving office, Trump has been endorsing candidates running for office across the US. At least 100 people have so far received an endorsement from him since he left the White House, Insider's Warren Rojas and Jake Lahut reported.
Those endorsements do not sit well with McConnell, per The Times, who characterized some of his picks as "goofballs."
A few of McConnell's prospects, who were not identified by The Times, declined his invitation to run for Senate. According to the report, they did not feel comfortable with the possibility of angering the former president.
