‘We are ruled by fools’: White House spent 22 minutes trying to mute conference call with reporters

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“This White House can’t even run a f**king conference call,” one reporter on the unmuted line said to the entire conference call. “They don’t know how to mute their line.”

An unnamed White House official shot back, “It’s the illegitimate media that doesn’t know how to conduct themselves. They can’t mute their f**king phones. Mute your phones.”

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They never end with the attacks on the free press.

The personality of Donald Trump is toxic, and everything around him turns toxic.