Kelly Sadler

Kelly Sadler

Kelly Riddell Sadler is a former American political staffer and a former journalist and columnist. She wrote "Water Cooler", a daily political blog for The Washington Times website, and was a regular contributor to the Times on political issues. She served as a special assistant to the president in the White House Office of Communications from May 2017 to June 2018.Her tenure in the White House was marked by an incident during a May 2018 meeting where she mocked Senator John McCain's failing health by saying, "It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway." On June 5, 2018, the White House announced she was "no longer employed within the executive office of the president," although she was not removed due to her McCain comment, but rather due to her accusing her manager Mercedes Schlapp during an Oval Office meeting with Trump of leaking information to the press, as Schlapp looked on – a meeting that itself was leaked.

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