They're fleeing the sinking ship.
Dubke resigns as White House communications director
Mike Dubke has resigned as White House communications director in the first of what could be a series of changes to President Trump's senior staff amid the growing Russia scandal.
Dubke, who served in the post for three months, tendered his resignation May 18. He offered to stay on to help manage communications in Washington during Trump's foreign trip, and the president accepted.
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If he couldn't keep up with the President, it was the right thing to do. Trump ran on an ambitious agenda of change, not just in what the government would do, but also in how the government would do it, and some people who might have fit well into a less ambitious administration, are just not fit to serve in this one.
Any communication role in the White House is going to be a revolving door. How can you effectively go out and tell the press that your boss fired the Director of the FBI because of his treatment of Hillary Clinton and had nothing to do with the Russia investigation, one day and then have your boss tell the media it was because of the Russia thing, the next day, while maintaining creditability.
Sean Spicer was a very respected man when he went to work for Trump. Now his reputation is destroyed, and he'll be hard pressed to salvage a career by the time he leaves/is fired.
The media isn't the one giving us "fake news". It's Trump and his staff who say one thing one day and the opposite of it the next. Which story is true. If the leaks are "fake news", how can you prosecute the leakers?
If the leaks are false, why are your allies upset about the leaks?
Trump sent a budget to Congress which cuts $800 billion from Medicaid. His communication staff is supposed to sell this budget to the people. On Monday he tweeted that he should just increase the amount spent on healthcare to restore US healthcare to #1 in the world. Which one will he do? What should his staff now be saying.
You have to have coherent policy and a boss who doesn't tell lies to have a coherent and respected communications staff. Trump's staff has neither.