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applegrove

(118,766 posts)
Tue Mar 14, 2017, 07:16 PM Mar 2017

Hurricane Katrina Pierson Turned Down White House Gig

by Gideon Resnick at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/14/hurricane-katrina-pierson-turned-down-white-house-gig.html

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In innumerable hits on CNN and Fox last year, Pierson made inconceivable claims including that President Obama started the war in Afghanistan and that Hillary Clinton suffered from the medical disorder dysphasia. It was the perfect narrative-shifting that the campaign became so adept at using.

And as one former campaign official put it to The Daily Beast, President Trump watched the hits and “LOVED them.”

“On the early campaign, she was a hired gun who was counter-narrative and effectively doing her own bookings, etc,” the official, speaking on background, told The Daily Beast. “Did on camera what we needed her to do. Really the first national surrogate we had.”

Two former campaign officials suggested to The Daily Beast that Pierson’s ultimate decision not to join the administration was due in part to an unspecified difference in opinion between her and Spicer and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus
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Hurricane Katrina Pierson Turned Down White House Gig (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2017 OP
Good RoadhogRidesAgain Mar 2017 #1
WAS and IS!!! GWC58 Mar 2017 #4
How much a laughingstock do you have to be Charles Bukowski Mar 2017 #2
I heard that she wasn't OFFERED a position... TheDebbieDee Mar 2017 #3
I have a theory-Kellyanne Conway and Katrina Pierson can be in the same room without a quantum event Gothmog Mar 2017 #5

Gothmog

(145,496 posts)
5. I have a theory-Kellyanne Conway and Katrina Pierson can be in the same room without a quantum event
Tue Mar 14, 2017, 07:58 PM
Mar 2017

These two each possess an amazing amount of negatively and the ability to twist reality. If the two were in the same room or in too close of proximity a black hole of denial and unreality could be created

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