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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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A White House aide who dismissed Sen. John McCain’s opposition to President Trump’s CIA nominee as irrelevant because he was “dying anyway” no longer works for the president.
Kelly Sadler’s comments about the Arizona Republican, who has been at home fighting brain cancer, sparked a weeks-long saga after they were made public last month.
“It doesn’t matter, he’s dying anyway,” she said during a well-attended White House communications meeting on May 10, shocking some staffers, according to a White House official with knowledge of the comment.
“Kelly Sadler is no longer employed within the Executive Office of the President,” White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah said in a statement Tuesday evening.
Sadler could not be reached for comment.
An official said the departure was not spurred by her McCain comments but instead was fueled largely by an internal dispute with the White House director of strategic communications, Mercedes Schlapp, over the fallout from the comment about McCain. It was not clear whether Sadler was fired or forced to resign.
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Josh Dawsey, WaPo this morning