Trolling is so real.
A White House national security staffer was reportedly fired after he posted some pretty mean things about the Obama administration under a fake Twitter handle.
Yep, that happened.
Jofi Joseph (or @natsecwonk) was a nonproliferation expert at the National Security Council before he was caught trolling on the internets. He was fired last week.
According to the Daily Beast:
Jofi Joseph, a director in the non-proliferation section of the National Security Staff at the White House, has been surreptitiously tweeting under the moniker @natsecwonk, a Twitter feed famous inside Washington policy circles since it began in February, 2011 until it was shut down last week. Two administration officials confirmed that the mystery tweeter was Joseph, who has also worked at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Joe Biden. Until recently, he was part of the administration’s team working on negotiations with Iran.
During his time tweeting under the @natsecwonk name, Joseph openly criticized the policies of his White House bosses and often insulted their intellect and appearance. At different times, he insulted or criticized several top White House and State Department officials, including former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, Secretary of State John Kerry, and many many others.
Um…rude.
The Daily Beast saved a record of Joseph’s unflattering tweets prior to the shut down of his feed.
“I’m a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me,” he once tweeted.
“Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Wiener? Almost as bad a pairing as Samantha Powers and Cass Sunstein ….,” he tweeted on another occasion, insulting a top Clinton aide, a then Congressman, and two White House senior officials in one tweet.
His shade wasn’t exclusive to the Obama administration, however. He made it a point to go in on Republican figures as well.
“@MiekeEoyang Come on, I expected better of you. @jrubinblogger is CRAZY unhinged while @noonanjo is an overweight paid Romney shill,” he tweeted, referring to the Washington Post’s conservative blogger Jen Rubin and Romney campaign national security staffer John Noonan.
And how are his coworkers reacting? Well, they’re in total shock. Joseph was well known among policy wonks and his wife, Carolyn Leddy, is a professional staffer on the Republican side of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Which means, in short, this dude eff’d up something serious.
Joseph was contacted, but did not respond to requests for comment. To read the rest of his tweets, click here.
SOURCE: Daily Beast | PHOTO CREDIT: Daily Beast
