The Dead Pool - 30 May 2017

As Donald Trump is (yet again) pondering a "broad shakeup" of his staff because he can't conceive that his problems might be of his own making, his communications director has resigned. Michael Dubke says it's for "personal" reasons, but it seems more likely that he's getting out while the getting is good. Why wait to be fired as part of a Jared-Ivanka-Donald purge, after all?

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