Trump Staff Begin Leaving ‘Toxic’ Work Environment Starting With Director Of Communications

Staff are beginning to defect from the White House en masse, it has been claimed, due to a “toxic” work environment fueled by US President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the elections.

Last week saw the resignation of White House communications director Alyssa Farah, one of the most high-profile people to leave office, amid growing awareness among senior staff that it is now inevitable that Joe Biden takes office on January 20.

Farah said it had been “a lifelong honor to serve in the Trump administration,” a position he had held for the past three and a half years.

“I will always be grateful to have had the opportunity to serve my country,” she said in a resignation letter.

Farah did not say what he would move to and did not mention Trump in his letter.

Despite that apparent slight, Trump praised his former employee saying she was a “great person” who did a “fantastic job.”

In the run-up to Christmas, it seems increasingly that Farah won’t be the last to run out of the White House, which houses the president’s office.

As presidents move from one to the other, it is not unusual for staff to seek alternate roles when the new management incorporates its own employees.

However, President Trump’s refusal to grant the election left staff in limbo not sure whether to move forward.

That was compounded by a report that the President’s Office personnel director John McEntee, who warned any staff to look for a job while Trump was contesting the election would be fired.

Yet that threat is increasingly viewed as hollow as states certify election results and Trump’s team’s legal efforts fail.

‘TOXIC’

Morale has plummeted among White House staff, many of whom do not want to be seen disobeying orders, but also do not want to be caught out of work on inauguration day. Others are simply “disgusted” with the way Trump is prolonging the handover, CNN reported.

“I think people move on because they have families or livelihoods to support,” an official told the new channel.

“That and the place is getting more toxic by the day … people are fighting each other, trying to settle scores while they can.”

Centering minds among the staff is what roles will be available at the party after Joe Biden moves in.

Republicans won several seats in the House of Representatives, but only one seat in the Senate. All of these new politicians will need staff, but far fewer than the number to be ousted from the White House, leading to a quiet, but urgent, scramble for roles in the background.

“Some are moving forward,” a White House adviser told CNN. “It’s time”.

On Friday, another avenue for Trump to maintain the presidency was closed when a court in the state of Nevada dismissed a lawsuit challenging the outcome in which Biden declared the winner.

The president of the United States and his allies have lost at least 30 post-election lawsuits. By some calculations, the number is as high as 41-1 losses.

Judge James Russell was scathing with the unprecedented request to block the certification of the state’s election results or award electoral college votes to Trump.

He said no evidence had been presented to support the campaign’s allegations of voter fraud.

“The contestants did not demonstrate by any standard of proof that illegal votes were cast and counted, or that legal votes were not counted at all, for any other improper or illegal reason, nor in an amount equal to or greater than 33,596, or a sufficient amount to raise reasonable doubts about the outcome of the election, “Justice Russell wrote.

“Reasonable doubt is based on reason, not mere possibility.”