Trump shrugs off leak of his ample 'Executive Time,' which is good because Axios has a new batch of leaked calendars
The leak of President Trump's internal calendars showing he devoted 60 percent of this workday to unstructured "Executive Time" spooked the White House, and in response, "enraged White House officials" launched a mole hunt to catch the leaker, Axios reported Sunday, confirming a report in Politico. "This crackdown has not stopped the leaking," Axios notes, posting four new leaked private schedules that show Trump spent about half of last week in "Executive Time."
Trump indicated how much this betrayal is not "a source of repeated embarrassment" that has "infuriated" him, as Politico reported, by tweeting on Sunday that his leaked calendars "should have been reported as a positive, not negative. When the term Executive Time is used, I am generally working, not relaxing. In fact, I probably work more hours than almost any past president."
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The Trump White House, of course, "has pledged to root out leakers in the past — most recently after a New York Times op-ed penned last year by a senior administration official identified only as 'part of the resistance inside the Trump administration,'" Politico notes. "In the wake of the op-ed's publication, the White House embarked on a search for the official that has yet to turn up the culprit."
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