‘Last Straw’: Trump Executive Assistant Abruptly Resigns After Sharing Private Info with Reporters

Monica Sanchez | August 30, 2019
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President Trump’s longtime executive assistant Madeleine Westerhout abruptly resigned from her position Thursday night amid reports that she shared personal information about the First Family with reporters.

Westerhout had been with the President since he had assumed office in 2016. She was also reportedly a source of friction within the White House.

Politico reports,

In the past six months, Westerhout had tried to expand the boundaries of her job to encompass a broader set of tasks and to include foreign travel, said one adviser close to the White House, who suggested Westerhout had tried to act like a de facto chief of staff. This irked several White House officials and Cabinet secretaries who thought she should stick to her primary task of serving as the president’s personal secretary with a desk just outside the Oval Office.

The White House was buzzing for most of the day on Thursday about her potential departure — especially after officials learned that she had attended an off-the-record dinner with reporters in Bedminster, N.J., where she was said to have shared overly personal details about the president’s life.

A White House adviser told Politico that her sharing personal details about Trump and his family was the “last straw.”

Westerhout, who also interned on Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign and studied Political Science at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, started her time in the spotlight as the so-called "Greeter Girl" in the lobby of Trump Tower in 2016.

The "Special Assistant to the President" earned a salary of $145,000 after receiving an additional title as "Director of Oval Office Operations," according to White House salary data released July 1.

 

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