Dan Scavino Criticizes Use of Anonymous Sources in White House Reporting

Evan Vucci/REUTERS One of Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders had a spectacular public meltdown over the rate at which unnamed MAGA aides are leaking details about the ongoing chaos inside the White House.

“An anonymous source insists what they heard from two other anonymous sources is 100% factually true—because one anonymous sources [sic] in the West Wing was told the exact same thing by two more anonymous sources at Cafe Milano, who also heard it,” Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, 50, posted in an apparently unedited Thursday-night tirade on X.

“So yes, we are writing this bulls--t story full of lies, and we’re sticking to it,” he went on, from the imagined perspective of an imaginary media outlet.

“We’re going with the piece that rests on a grand total of six anonymous sources, while ignoring the eight Cabinet members who gave us statements on the record.

I can’t imagine why the American people keep calling us Fake News!” It wasn’t immediately clear whether one specific outlet had sent Scavino apoplectic, or whether his fury was directed at something as yet unpublished.

He’s spoiled for choice.

During Trump’s 19 months back in office so far, White House officials have been panic-dialing journalists on everything from the Epstein files to the president’s catastrophic war in the Middle East.

The most likely trigger for Scavino appears to be recent coverage of the 80-year-old president’s alarmingly close relationship with his 35-year-old “human binkie,” Natalie Harp.

Harp, who makes $150,000 a year working as special assistant and executive assistant to the president, has long worried even Trump’s closest advisers with her fixation on the president, and a slew of reports this week has laid bare just how deep it runs.

Things ramped up over the weekend when Democratic Georgia Sen.

Jon Ossoff told supporters at an Atlanta rally on Saturday that Trump doesn’t actually want “to do the job,” and instead just “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar.” Ossoff was referring to a bombshell Washington Post report earlier this month that the pair had snuck off Air Force One in a catering truck ahead of departing a July NATO summit in Turkey.

They made the move due to an apparent Iranian threat to the president’s life, leaving other top aides and the White House press pool to fly on ahead as a “decoy.” Trump and Harp then rejoined the others at an airfield in the U.K., where the whole troupe boarded the $400 million luxury Boeing the Qatari royal family gifted to the president.

The senator’s comments instantly went viral.