The new White House communications director called up a writer for the New Yorker two nights ago. What he said isn’t going to make it any easier for this administration to staff up. I write about it at Bloomberg View today: “It’s useful to all of us to have a White House that can attract talent. But it’s those Americans who are most sympathetic to Trump and his agenda who should have the deepest worries.”
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