SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, KELLYANNE CONWAY, KIRSTJEN NIELSEN
IN NAZI GERMANY, WOMEN WERE AMONG THE MOST SADISTIC, VICIOUS MURDERERS.
IN NAZI GERMANY, WOMEN WERE AMONG THE MOST SADISTIC, VICIOUS MURDERERS.
Ten Most Evil Women In Nazi Camps
The market on wholesale cruelty towards the inhabitants of German concentration camps was not, it is safe to say, monopolized by women. In fact, during the course of the war around 5,500 females served in various guard positions in German camps. Below is a list of those who "attacked" their job and their charges with a ferocity which was likely the envy of their male counterparts.
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AND TODAY, IN AMERICA … LIES SPEW FROM THEIR LIPS
"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," the scathing Trump tell-all by Michael Wolff that morphed into an overnight bestseller, delves into a man's world where women are sometimes seen, but rarely heard.
Just six women are shown to populate President Trump's orbit: His eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump; his personal public relations wrangler, Hope Hicks; Kellyanne Conway, his TV surrogate; his wife, Melania Trump; and seasoned pros, Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser; and deputy chief of staff, Katie Walsh. Walsh, one of the only female voices Wolff quotes by name, jumped ship barely three months into the new administration because of the constant infighting. Powell announced her pending departure last month.
Despite Walsh and Powell's expertise, only Ivanka Trump, Hicks and Conway provide counsel that Trump seems willing, however briefly, to entertain, Wolff says.
Here are six takeaways from the book (an account the White house denies) about the women in the president's life:
1. Men get all the top jobs, but women get the one most important to him
Despite the preponderance of men holding cabinet positions (only two traditional Cabinet positions are held by women) and other prestigious posts in the administration, women do what matters most to the president: Tend to his needs.
"While Trump was in most ways a conventional misogynist, in the workplace he was much closer to women than to men," Wolff writes. "The former he confided in, the latter he held at arm's length. He liked and needed his office wives, and he trusted them with his most important personal issues. Women, according to Trump, were simply more loyal and trustworthy than men. … Women, by their nature, or Trump's version of their nature, were more likely to focus their purpose on a man. A man like Trump."
Wolff adds: "He felt women understood him. Or, the kind of women he liked - positive outlook, can-do, loyal women who also looked good - understood him."
2. Ivanka is 'botlike'
In Wolff's telling, Ivanka is "inexpressive and even botlike in public, but among friends, discursive and strategic."
She could barely conceal her "distaste" for her father's third wife. "Ivanka would say to friends: 'All you have to know about Melania is that she thinks if he runs he'll certainly win,'" writes Wolff.
Ivanka helped lead the ouster of widely disliked campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and she got New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie unceremoniously dumped from the presidential transition team. With husband, Jared Kushner, she produced the 10-day Anthony Scaramucci sideshow, a move designed in part to push out press secretary Sean Spicer, whom the couple felt wasn't defending their interests vigorously enough.
And after Trump's longtime personal attorney Marc Kasowitz, urged the president to convince the couple to move back to New York, they "helped to coordinate a set of lurid leaks" about Kasowitz's messy personal life and drinking problem. Not long after, "Kasowitz was out."
3. No one likes Kellyanne Conway
Wolff describes Conway as a "vulgar," two-faced schemer who mocks the president's bombastic and absurd claims behind closed doors with mouth agape, pointing a finger pistol to her own head, but morphs into his most rabid defender when the cameras go on.
"The president's worst impulses seem to run through Conway without benefit of a filter. She compounded Trump's anger, impulsiveness and miscues. Whereas a presidential adviser was supposed to buffer and interpret his gut calls, Conway expressed them, doubled down on them, made opera out of them."
Though "her kamikaze-like media defense of the president earned her a position of utmost primacy in the White House," her "hyperbolic" behavior on camera is too extreme even for Trump loyalists who are "repelled" by her "shamelessness."
Behind her back, Ivanka and Kushner call Conway "nails" for her long, "Cruella de Vil" talons. And in her signature pretzel logic, Conway also likes to criticize feminists as being "anti-feminist," which hasn't endeared her to Ivanka, who sees herself as a Sheryl Sandberg-style feminist.
4. Hope Hicks is Trump's 'real daughter'
The 29-year old former model from Greenwich, Conn., had only minimal experience in public relations when she joined the Trump campaign in 2015. As it grew from a long shot vanity project to a political juggernaut, Hicks's family increasingly "viewed her as having been taken captive." After she moved to Washington following Trump's victory, "friends and intimates talked with great concern about what kind of therapies and recuperation she would need after her tenure was finally over," Wolff explains.
Despite his cutting comment that she was the best "tail" the married Corey Lewandowski would ever have (the book alludes to their affair), observers say Trump has a genuine paternal fondness for her.
Hicks "was thought of as Trump's real daughter, while Ivanka was thought of as his real wife" by White House staffers, according to the book.
Her singular devotion to soothing Trump's ego by presenting him with only positive press and orchestrating soft interviews with obsequious figures like Sean Hannity has raised eyebrows.
"To the senior staff, she seemed not only too young and too inexperienced - she was famous among campaign reporters for her too-hard-to-maneuver-in short skirts - but a way too-overeager yes woman, always in fear of making a mistake, even tremulously second-guessing herself and looking for Trump's approval," Wolff writes. "She became a kind of Stepford factotum, as absolutely dedicated to and tolerant of Mr. Trump as anyone who had ever worked for him."
5. Melania was terrified when Trump won
The prospect of Trump becoming president for Melania was "a horrifying one. She believed it would destroy her carefully sheltered life . . . which was almost entirely focused on her young son."
"Just a little longer, he told her. It would all be over in November. He offered his wife a solemn guarantee: there was simply no way he would win," Wolff writes. Soon, Melania was promised, she could resume her carefully curated life in Manhattan "inconspicuously lunching."
6. Ivanka's thirstiness disgusts and scares people
Ivanka has alienated many White House staffers with her entitled airs and naked striving to use her father's improbable victory as a personal branding opportunity, a steppingstone to move herself and Kushner from being "obscure" Manhattan "rich kids" to the prince and princess of Davos.
"Curiously, for all their callowness, Jared and Ivanka had become quite a fearsome presence, as feared by others as the two of them feared Bannon. What's more, they had become quite accomplished infighters and leakers - they had front room and back-channel power - although with great woundedness, they insisted incredibly that they never leaked," Wolff writes.
Ivanka's decision to accept a formal White House role, despite her distinct lack of knowledge about politics or policy, was the last straw for some.
"That's when people suddenly realized she's dumb as a brick," says Bannon in the book, a bitter enemy.
Despite their denials, the couple ran a steady campaign of leaks designed to outmaneuver Bannon, who they saw as encouraging their father's worst instincts and damaging his presidency, as well as their own social standing.
"Ivanka, in the view of almost every White House staffer, profoundly misunderstood the nature of her job," Wolff writes.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen slammed critics of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration in a speech on June 18, 2018. (AP)
If there's one member of President Trump's Cabinet who is the most embattled right now, it might be Kirstjen Nielsen. And the Department of Homeland Security secretary seems to be willing to say just about anything to get back on the president's good side.
Behind the scenes, Nielsen is reportedly fighting Trump's decision to separate migrant children from parents who cross the U.S. border. But on Sunday night, she took to Twitter to offer some pretty remarkable spin by arguing that no such policy exists.
"We do not have a policy of separating families at the border," she said. "Period."
Sarah Sanders fires back at Laura Bush over her criticism of family separations
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday responded to former first lady Laura Bush's criticism of the separation of families on the US border.
"The president himself said that he doesn't like this process," Sanders said when asked about the White House's reaction to Bush's scathing column in the Washington Post.
However, Sanders said, "it's Congress' job to change the law. We're calling on them to do exactly that. And frankly, this law was actually signed into effect in 2008 under her husband's leadership. Not under this administration."
"We're not the ones responsible for creating this problem," Sanders added. "We've inherited it, but we're actually the first administration stepping up and trying to fix it."
In her op-ed, Bush called the separations "immoral."
"I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart," she wrote.
"Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the internment camps for U.S. citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history," Bush added. "In 2018, can we not as a nation find a kinder, more compassionate and more moral answer to this current crisis? I, for one, believe we can."
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