Letter from America: 'Are you next?'

By now the White House, stacked with members who have either been fired or are on the way out, was starting to resemble an unemployment exchange office

US National Security Adviser HR McMaster (right of Donald Trump). Pic: Getty

How could he? It pains me greatly to report that theWhite House chief of staff John Kelly may have lied to me. In the Oval Office, of all places. While staring – perhaps glaring would be a better word for it – me directly in the eye.

Surveyingthe annual Irish media scramble into the Oval Office, which resembles nothing so much as one of those Japanese TV shows that are little more than ...