Trump’s inner circle is reeling, almost Agatha Christie-style, over the identity of the informant. And it’s become an interesting guessing game. Since his kitchen cabinet of advisors generally drop in from out of state, and are relegated to his office above the ballroom in Mar-a-Lago, few have access to his residence or the basement where personal items are stored. Trump insiders have told me that they’ve narrowed the identity of the possible informant down to two camps. The theory is that it was likely among the cohort of junior aides, mostly body men, (think Cassidy Hutchinson level), who are by his side day-to-day at either Bedminster or Mar-a-Lago. A few of these people have rotated out of the office in recent months, and, some have speculated, may perceive their futures as brighter outside of Trump’s orbit. Others say it could be an actual staff worker at the Mar-a-Lago club. I’ve been told specific names…
Not surprisingly, this bizarre series of events has exacerbated already simmering feuds in Trumpworld over how they landed in this pickle and who is to blame. I’m already hearing about clashes within Trump’s legal team between Christina Bobb, the OANN reporter who has become the face of Trump’s latest legal woes as she happened to be in West Palm Beach at the time of the raid, and Boris Epshteyn, a short-lived White House official who made his re-entry into the inner sanctum by being a point person on the fake electorate scheme. He’s now on the payroll through Trump’s PAC, offering legal advice too, and taking the lead on building the legal war room as it expands. (He previously recommended that they hire Steve Bannon’s lawyer Corcoran.) Mind you, Trump has polled multiple people in his inner circle about whether he should respond to the National Archives request, asking them, “Should I comply with the archives?” So really anyone can play freelance lawyer in Trump’s inner circle. That’s why the ascendance of Bobb, who some in Trump’s inner circle believe could have done a better job managing the legal quagmire, has been driving people crazy.
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