Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Staffers

I was focused on the journalists, but we shouldn't overlook the fact that Trump was gonna let his staffers die, also, too.
Now, attention has shifted to reporters and staffers unknowingly flying on a decoy plane — and the nature of the threat that prompted such dramatic security measures. A US official said at least two Cabinet secretaries – Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent – stayed behind on the older presidential aircraft that departed Turkey without Trump aboard.
I was thinking more about the junior staffers, but I guess Marco and Scott are disposable, too!

And the more junior staffers are not!
As President Donald Trump secretly left an Air Force One jet on a catering truck last month in response to a potential Iranian assassination threat in Turkey, he was accompanied by some of his most loyal and longest-serving aides, but no Cabinet officials.

Other passengers on the truck included Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff; Natalie Harp, the president’s executive assistant; and Walt Nauta, the director of Oval Office operations, according to a U.S. official familiar with the operation and corroborating material reviewed by The Washington Post.
Harp's job - should be Cabinet level, really - is to feed him social media slop for him to look at and post.