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‘It’s a mess’: Biden’s team exposes the chaotic Trump White House they inherited

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President Joe Biden has been in office for 10 days and, already, his administration has uncovered a number of chaotic issues inherited from the Trump administration. 

According to Politico, Biden’s team had a prioritized focus on combatting the raging coronavirus pandemic, but instead of completely focusing on their 200-page pandemic response plan, this week has been largely dedicated to “trying to wrap their hands around the mushrooming crisis — a process officials acknowledge has been humbling, and triggered a concerted effort to temper expectations about how quickly they might get the nation back to normal.”

While the Biden administration’s work should be well underway, they are still working to locate more than 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccines that have already been shipped to states. According to Biden’s administration, they inherited a deeply flawed for maintaining proper records and inventory of vaccine distribution. Continue reading.

How the everyday chaos of reporting on the Trump White House played out for the world to see Saturday

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The dispatches began routinely enough for an out-of-the-ordinary day, with Pool Report No. 2 from Cheryl Bolen, the Bloomberg News White House reporter on pool duty Saturday.

“Pool took vans over to Walter Reed, arriving at 10:31 a.m. We are attempting to learn the logistics of Dr. [Sean] Conley’s update on POTUS’s health, scheduled for 11:00 a.m., and will advise soonest.” The report, sent at 10:33 a.m., was a typical transmission from the email list that provides regular updates each day on the president’s activities and is, at the most basic level, the primary source for the press to communicate what is happening with the commander in chief.

But as the media continued to wait for the president’s medical team outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the next four hours of reports encapsulated the chaos that has been the defining feature of covering the Trump White House — this time on what might be the most consequential moment of his presidency. Continue reading.

Notable departures from Trump’s White House

Here is a list of departures from top positions in the Trump administration during President Donald Trump’s two-plus years in the White House.

This list doesn’t include people who were nominated but never actually served, or officials such as Mike Pompeo who shifted to a different position.

— National security adviser Michael Flynn (left post February 2017)

— White House chief of staff Reince Priebus (July 2017)

— Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price (September 2017)

— Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (March 2018)

— Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin (March 2018) (click the link below for a complete list)

View the complete April 7 article by the Politico staff on the Politico website here.