{"id":178480,"date":"2018-11-15T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/15\/and-shes-gone\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:34:00","slug":"and-shes-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/15\/and-shes-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"And She&#8217;s Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mira Ricardel, who fell out with the First Lady when she attempted to extort seats on her Africa junket, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/416797-bolton-aide-exits-white-house-after-high-profile-clash-with-first\">has left the building<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Top National Security Council official Mira Ricardel is exiting her post after an extraordinary, high-profile clash with first lady <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/melania-trump\">Melania Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said in a statement Wednesday that Ricardel will \u201ctransition to a new role within the administration,\u201d but did not specify her new job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president is grateful for Ms. Ricardel\u2019s continued service to the American people and her steadfast pursuit of his national security priorities,\u201d said White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement capped off a tense day of speculation about Ricardel&#8217;s future after the first lady&#8217;s office took the unusual step of <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/416478-first-ladys-office-says-bolton-aide-no-longer-deserves-the-honor-of-serving\">publicly calling for her ouster<\/a>. It appears to be a compromise solution, since national security adviser John Bolton reportedly fought to save Ricardel, his top deputy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Trump White House is truly a complete sh%$ show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mira Ricardel, who fell out with the First Lady when she attempted to extort seats on her Africa junket, has left the building: Top National Security Council official Mira Ricardel is exiting her post after an extraordinary, high-profile clash with first lady Melania Trump. The White House said in a statement Wednesday that Ricardel will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[589,406,403,454],"class_list":["post-178480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-insane","tag-stupid","tag-wanker","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}