Posted on 11/14/2018 6:43:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Just one day after the office of first lady Melania Trump issued an extraordinary call for her dismissal, deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel is officially set to exit the White House, the Trump administration has announced.
“Mira Ricardel will continue to support the president as she departs the White House to transition to a new role within the administration," White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Wednesday, without naming a replacement. "The president is grateful for Ms. Ricardel’s continued service to the American people and her steadfast pursuit of his national security priorities.”
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Ricardel had clashed with Melania Trump's staff over seating arrangements on a plane during the first lady's trip to Africa last month. The paper added that the first lady's office suspects Ricardel of leaking negative stories about the first lady and her staff.
"It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that [Ricardel] no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,” Stephanie Grisham, Melania Trump's communications director, said in an extraordinary statement on Tuesday.
Sources tell Fox News that National Security Adviser John Bolton and his inner-circle team were caught entirely off-guard by that statement, which a source says was released strategically while Bolton was out of the country in Asia with Vice President Mike Pence and unable to address the fallout.
Bolton was a major supporter of Ricardel and opposed her ouster, sources confirmed to Fox News, and the manner of her dismissal has reportedly frustrated Bolton and his team.
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Melania— quite but strong.
I trust Melanias judgement. She is a smart lady and if she says this broad was a leaker than she must go.
Well, I guess if you have to be kicked to the curb, it SHOULD be by a woman wearing Christian Louboutins! :)
I don’t see Melania as someone that over-reacts, and she HAS been a businesswoman for DECADES. She knows a RAT when she smells one!
Bushie, CFR member.... LOL. Glad Melania smacked her down. It’s good for the swamp creatures sometimes.
Oh Goodness!
Can she be escorted out the back past the garbage bags?
Another Bushite bites the dust.
“...she departs the White House to transition to a new role within the administration...”
No. That’s not good. She needs to be transferred to the basement in a storage cage, keeping her eyes out for cockroaches. If this person remains in the administration she’s gonna be trouble.
reminds me of what some retired Army officers once told me - it’s the General’s wife you need to worry about. Not the General.
In a place like Washington DC, where you sit is a currency considered more valuable than gold.
The paper added that the first lady's office suspects Ricardel of leaking negative stories about the first lady and her staff.
Screw with the President’s wife, not so smart.
Get rid of Bolton. He is trying to steer us to war with China & Russia. No thanks.
Bolton was brought on board to give the President leverage in negotiations with countries like N Korea, Iran, etc, etc.
For the President to appear to be reasonable when dealing with these despotic regimes, he needed a foaming “pit bull” hawk to his right.
THIS (and only this) was the reason that he was brought on board.***
This president does not get led around by his aides. He uses them like chess pieces, and when their usefulness is up, gives them up.
***(Credit to Scott Adams, again, for explaining all this in ‘real time’ over the past 2 years)
And yet not much (ie hardly any) LSM coverage on all the folks cut loose by Hellary or the TransWookie.
I would say that have a “speak softly but carry a big stick” kind of First Lady.
“Mira Ricardel became angry that seats on the first lady’s government jet were assigned to a larger-than-usual security entourage and a small press corps with none for Ricardel or another NSC staffer, .....Policy experts from the NSC and State Department were advised to fly separately and to meet the first lady’s party on the ground, a practice the State Department had often used, but Ricardel objected strenuously, those people said. She threatened to revoke NSC resources associated with the trip, meaning no policy staff would advise the first lady during her visits to Ghana, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt.”
She sounds like a self important disrespectful bitch.
Good riddance.
Do you mean quiet but strong?
It's tough for sure, if you don't have final authority to do the job as you believe it to be. That being said, it appears that she lacked flexibility.
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