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Kelly 'It Doesn't Matter, He's Dying Anyway' Sadler Is Reportedly Out at the White House
White House special assistant Kelly Sadler reportedly no longer works in the administration, according to CNN, after saying last month that the terminally ill Senator John McCain’s opposition to CIA director Gina Haspel “doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway.”

The White House and Donald Trump refused to publicly condemn Sadler’s comments after the Hill reported them back on May 10. (“We respect Senator McCain’s service to our nation and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time,” the White House said at the time.)

Instead, the White House chose to get insanely mad at the leak of Sadler’s comments. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to comment on it in a press conference because to do so would “validate a leak,” she claimed. Privately, however, she reportedly lit into a room full of communications staffers and told them, “I am sure this conversation is going to leak, too. And that’s just disgusting.” Hilariously, five people told Axios about the meeting afterwards.

As for Sadler, Axios reported late last month that she reportedly pinned the leak on her boss, White House director of strategic communications Mercedes Schlapp, in front of Trump during a meeting at the Oval Office. Schlapp denied that, and the Daily Beast reported last week that Schlapp called Sadler a “bitch” multiple times following that meeting, although Schlapp vehemently denied ever saying that about another White House staffer.

Sarah Sanders, Raj Shah planning to depart the White House
Two of the most visible members of the Trump administration are planning their departures, the latest sign of upheaval in a White House marked by turmoil.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders and principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah are both heading for the exits, according to sources inside the White House and close to the administration. Sanders, who has become a confidante of President Trump since the departure of former communications director Hope Hicks, has told friends that she plans to leave the administration at the end of the year.

Shah is also considering his exit, but he has not yet settled on an exact date. Neither Sanders nor Shah immediately responded to repeated requests for comment.

Several other lower-level positions in the communications department left vacant in recent weeks are likely to remain unfilled, with more departures expected in the coming weeks, according to a former official.
Numerous staffers have left the White House over the last several months

Trump’s ‘Best People’ Are the Absolute Worst
At this point you have to ask: Just what do job postings for the Trump administration look like? Surely they must stipulate that relevant experience isn’t a plus, but that a flexible notion of ethics is. They must demand references who can recount specific instances of demonstrated incompetence. How else to explain the sheer number of poorly prepared or careless or sticky-fingered officials crammed into this careening clown-car of an administration?

Consider the Trump appointees who have been in the news lately.

Let’s start with Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House physician who on Thursday backed out of his nomination to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, which provides health care to more than nine million vets and is the largest federal department after the Pentagon, and whose nomination was just withdrawn by the White House.
More than 20 people who have worked with Dr. Jackson told senators either that he was drunk on the job, handed out sleeping pills, and even opioids, like Skittles, or screamed at his staff. The latest allegation is that he reportedly got drunk and wrecked a government car.

No one should have expected the lack of qualifications to matter to Mr. Trump. That wasn’t an obstacle to his decision to give his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a portfolio that includes negotiating peace in the Middle East, reforming the criminal justice system and making the government more tech-savvy. Mr. Trump also considered appointing his personal pilot to head the Federal Aviation Administration.

As for the lobbyist-loving wing of the Trump administration, one of its leading members — Mick Mulvaney, who heads the Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — was extolling the practice of pay-to-play public service the other day. At a speech before the American Bankers Association on Tuesday, Mr. Mulvaney said that as a congressman he would only meet with lobbyists who gave money to his campaign. He also encouraged bankers — many of whom have given generously to him — to let their needs be known to lawmakers.

On the other hand, Scott Pruitt, who runs the Environmental Protection Agency, has been taking care of himself. He got a sweetheart deal for a $50-a-night room from the wife of a lobbyist whose company was seeking goodies from the E.P.A. He has liberally spent government funds on first-class flights and a security detail large enough for a minor potentate. He also spent $43,000 on a soundproof phone booth for his office that might remind some of the “cone of silence” from “Get Smart.” When he was an Oklahoma state senator, The Times recently reported, Mr. Pruitt came to own a stately house overlooking the State Capitol, a million-dollar lakeside manse in Tulsa and a stake in a minor-league baseball team. He accomplished all that with the help of a couple of old associates, one a banker and the other a lawyer … both of whom are now on the public payroll, working with Mr. Pruitt at the E.P.A.

Remember when Mr. Trump said he would hire the “best people”? Of course, he said Mexico would pay for his border wall, too.