The White House turnstyle keeps spinning

President Trump’s top homeland security aide, Tom Bossert, is resigning, the latest in a long line of staffers to exit the West Wing.

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Bossert has served in the White House since Trump’s inauguration and played a key role in responding to cyber threats and last year’s hurricanes that devastated Texas, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

  The Hill

So, like all other Trump administrators, he wasn't good at his job.

His departure comes one day after John Bolton took over as national security adviser, a move that was expected to cause turnover on Trump’s security team. The 43-year-old aide is close to chief of staff John Kelly and Bolton’s predecessor, H.R. McMaster.

National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton announced his resignation two days before Bossert quit.

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The timing of Bossert’s exit appeared abrupt.

I'm just gonna leave it right there.  Except to say:  duck and cover.

Slow down; I can't keep up

Remember K.T. McFarland a few posts back? The reporters are on it like flies on cowpies.

In emails obtained by the New York Times, transition advisor K.T. McFarland sought to coordinate with other members of the Trump transition team in the wake of sanctions intended to punish the Kremlin for interfering in the U.S. presidential election. “If there is a tit-for-tat escalation Trump will have difficulty improving relations with Russia, which has just thrown U.S.A. election to him,” McFarland wrote to Thomas P. Bossert, who currently serves as Trump’s homeland security adviser.

  Daily Beast

Is that just very poorly worded, or is she saying Russia has "just thrown [the] election to him?"

The White House said McFarland’s email was intended to express the opinion of Democrats, not herself.

That sounds like a Kellyanne excuse, but The Hill says it was a lawyer. (But, maybe Kellyanne is a lawyer. Whatever she is, if she's smart, she's packing her bags and buying land in Nicaragua.) Whoever is charged with covering up all the gaffes of this addministration with something even remotely plausible isn't getting paid enough.  And that ridiculous explanation leads me to believe she was indeed saying Russia just threw the election to Trump.  She'll be paying a visit to Mueller soon, if she hasn't already (since Mueller has the email).  As will Tom Bossert.

...but hey, do what you want...you wll anyway.

We're Doomed

And by "we", I could possibly mean the planet.

A self-described "email prankster" in the UK fooled a number of White House officials into thinking he was other officials, including an episode where he convinced the White House official tasked with cyber security that he was Jared Kushner and received that official's private email address unsolicited.

"Tom, we are arranging a bit of a soirée towards the end of August," the fake Jared Kushner on an Outlook account wrote to the official White House email account of Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert. "It would be great if you could make it, I promise food of at least comparible (sic) quality to that which we ate in Iraq. Should be a great evening." Bossert wrote back: "Thanks, Jared. With a promise like that, I can't refuse. Also, if you ever need it, my personal email is" (redacted).

Bossert did not respond to CNN's request for comment; the email prankster said he was surprised Bossert responded given his expertise. The emails were shared with CNN by the email prankster.

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The email prankster tweets under the name @SINON_REBORN, where he posts his pranks, and describes himself as a "lazy anarchist."

  CNN

Fake News!?

White House officials acknowledged the incidents and said they were taking the matter seriously. "We take all cyber related issues very seriously and are looking into these incidents further," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNN.

When incompetent clowns take things seriously.

Read the article. There are several other high level email pranks reported, including this one:

[Jon] Huntsman himself was also tricked, with the prankster pretending to be Eric Trump, the President's son. "Thanks for the thoughtful note," the ambassador-designate wrote to fake Eric Trump. "Russia will be a challenging but no doubt rewarding assignment." The fake Eric Trump responded with this suggestion: "Maybe we could have Dad sat (sic) on a horse, top off, giving the full Putin! He's in better shape than his suits suggest."

Are we sure that's not from the real Eric Trump?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.