BREAKING: White House employee placed on leave after OMG busts him saying ‘We have got to get rid of Trump’
“…He’s a madman, literally. He’s invincible. Nothing can stop him.”
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“…He’s a madman, literally. He’s invincible. Nothing can stop him.”
A new undercover video released by the O’Keefe Media Group has revealed a senior White House budget analyst talking about how "we have to get rid of Trump," and that President Donald Trump is "dangerous." Shortly after the report was released, the Daily Caller’s Rebeka Zeljko reported that Benjamin Ellisten has been placed on leave. A White House official told the reporter, "This individual has been placed on administrative leave while we conduct a review and investigation. He has no direct access to the President or Senior Staff, and does not work on the White House campus. Such views expressed by the individual are not reflective of patriots who admirably serve in the Administration."
Speaking with an undercover reporter, Ellisten, a Senior Budget Analyst and Fund Manager in the Executive Office of the President, said, "We have got to get rid of Trump. Seriously. He’s a mess. He’s f*cking it up for everybody. Everybody. Gotta get rid of him, honestly."
"With him at the top, it’s next to impossible to do anything, like, he’s a madman, literally. He’s invincible. Nothing can stop him, and that’s dangerous," he said, adding, "the way his decision are so erratic, you would think he drinks. He doesn’t drink. And that’s what makes it so dangerous, that somebody could be of sound mind and body, totally coherent, could just be so reckless in their decision-making. That’s scary."
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"He should never be president, it’s, for me, it’s that simple," he said. "That’s where it stops."
He took issue with Trump’s construction of a new ballroom at the White House and how it’s being funded with private donations, saying Trump’s "doing more than what he told us initially, like before it was just a ballroom, but now there’s a secret basement for military operations and stuff."
"He claims it’s being done, being built, being sponsored by all private donations. No one knows where the money is coming from. So, and people are just opening up their wallets." He said they don’t know where the money is coming from, adding when the reporter said it was concerning, "it’s more than concerning, like, me as a government employee, right? Most I can accept as a gift, any government employee, is like, It’s $25. Well, [Trump] just accept—he’s a government employee too, so it doesn’t really matter."
He also took issue with a $400 million plane that had been gifted by Qatar to the Trump administration for the use of a new Air Force One, claiming that it will take $1 billion in taxpayer funds to retrofit the plane. "This is just corruption. It’s just brazen and outrageous," he said.
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