"Who burned Westerhout? Ed noted earlier that there’s always been speculation about her as a leaker, partly because she came over from the RNC rather than the Trump campaign and partly because she was superbly positioned to watch his activities during the day. But if Westerhout was an important leaker, it’s bizarre that reporters would have shared her comments about the Trump daughters and risked her getting fired. They’d be killing the golden goose, a prime source of material for their own dishy scoops about Trump.'Madeleine Westerhout, who left her White House job suddenly on Thursday as President Trump’s personal assistant, was fired after bragging to reporters that she had a better relationship with Trump than his own daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany Trump, and that the president did not like being in pictures with Tiffany because he perceived her as overweight…
Westerhout also jokingly told the journalists that Trump couldn’t pick Tiffany out of a crowd, said one of the people. “She had a couple drinks and in an uncharacteristically unguarded moment, she opened up to the reporters,” the person said…“This was an off-the-record dinner and the media blatantly violated that agreement,” an administration official said.
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"What’s Westerhout’s move now? . . . "Keep her on the team and she’ll keep quiet, hopefully." Emphases in the original, TD
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