Fox News host Chris Wallace claims that they have not been able to reach anyone at the White House to get someone on his Sunday program to explain Trump’s logic behind the firing.
“You want to do it under the best circumstances, and one of the problems has been the disarray at the White House communications shop,” Wallace said on air. “The president has been blaming that on them, but the fact is it should be blamed on him because he didn’t seem to trust them enough to give them advance notice.”
Two unnamed Republican officials are also mad about how Trump handled Comey’s dismissal, according to a report from Axios.
Publicly, just about every Republican has either supported or stated that they understand why the firing had to take place – even the fiercest “Never Trump” voice in the Senate, John McCain.
However, “It is a debacle,” one of the anonymous sources told Axios. “They got everything – timing, rationale, reaction – completely wrong.”
The other unnamed source told the outlet that the administration should prepare for more leaks over the completely legal firing.
“The team are rank amateurs who picked a fight with the intelligence agencies and the FBI,” the anonymous official told the website. “Hard to unite those historically competitive organizations. And they have the ability to find out almost anything!”
Adding to the criticism of the White House press office, CBS journalist Bob Schieffer asserted that Trump is "making fools of his own staff. The White House appears to be in chaos. It is the original amateur hour, as we look at it from the outside."
