Marossa what's going on? I just saw a news that you think about leaving what happened

General Kelly General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave

No, I nobody even told me about it. No, they run a big operation, but I didn't know it

I'd like to see this be a friendly departure

I'm trying to find out at least a context is a reason

That did not happen. It sounds like she's writing a script for a movie

I'm the kind of person who covers her own back and Trump world everyone lies

I didn't know that. Yeah, damn it. I don't love you leaving at all

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast. I'm Virginia Heffernan

So we are distracted from distraction by distraction this week

But who can tell the distraction from the heart of the matter?

There are plenty of scolds. We'll tell you it's wrong to talk about Peter Strach or the president's tweets

or the fizzled neo-nazi jam the other day

Some people say don't talk about any of it because it distracts from the present moment or the sunset or a children or whatever

to each his own

What interests me this week as Manafort's trial for bank fraud wraps up is Manafort.com's transition times emails to Jared Kushner.com

I love those insecure commercial servers

So Manafort was asking for a cabinet and high-level positions for three of his cronies because remember Manafort was only a year out of an inpatient

Psych hospital and deeply in debt and trying to use his

Roll as Donald Trump's campaign manager to get whole by which he meant

Qualify for credit because money to these people always means debt when Manafort proposed Steve Cawk as Secretary of the Army for instance

He had just received the first part of his bribe. I mean 60 million dollars in loans from the bank where Cawk is chair of the federal savings bank according to testimony we heard on Monday

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