A big leak rattles the White House

The big picture: White House insiders said the leak sowed chaos. Cliff Sims, the former White House official who wrote the dishy “Team of Vipers,” told me: “There are leaks, and then there are leaks. If most are involuntary manslaughter, this was premeditated murder. People inside are genuinely scared.”

Madeleine Westerhout‏ — the director of Oval Office operations, who sits outside Trump’s door — tweeted: “What a disgraceful breach of trust to leak schedules. What these don’t show are the hundreds of calls and meetings @realDonaldTrump takes everyday.”

The N.Y. Times’ Maggie Haberman tweeted: “A White House aide is weaponizing his schedules, which says a lot about how people in the White House feel about the man they work for.”