Trump White House As ‘Dirty and Filled With Intrigue’ As Kremlin

• Trump’s ex-Russia advisor said his White House was as “dirty and filled with intrigue” as the Kremlin.
• Fiona Hill compared her NSC job, “with all the endless hits and explosions,” to the World War II blitz.
• The Trump White House often made headlines because of its warring factions and high rate of turnover.

The former Russia expert for the Trump administration said that the political drama at the Trump White House was “as dirty and filled with intrigue” as the Kremlin’s.

That’s according to “There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century,” by Fiona Hill.

Hill served as an intelligence analyst from 2006 to 2009, under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. In 2017, she was appointed deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council under President Donald Trump.

Hill in her memoir compared her job at the NSC under Trump, “with all the endless hits and explosions,” to the World War II blitz, referring to the Nazis’ bombing campaign against Britain.

“It was just as exhausting putting out political incendiary devices at the White House before someone’s game blew us up too,” she wrote, adding that she ended up treating her experience “as a foray into terra incognita,” or unexplored territory.

“I found myself conducting a social anthropological study of the White House, turning the lens around on the United States and noting the parallels with upheavals I had seen and experienced elsewhere,” Hill wrote. “The political machinations around the Trump White House turned out to be as dirty and filled with intrigue as the Kremlin’s, and the atmosphere was as tumultuous as my life in the UK had been in the 1970s and 1980s.”