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Former Obama White House Official Slams Trump's Administration: "I Never Hired a Lawyer"

In a tweet posted on July 13, Lu wrote the following: "I served 4 years in the Obama White House. I never hired a lawyer, and I don't know anyone who did. Just thought I'd point that out."

Chris Lu

White House reveals contact info on voters concerned about privacy

"Trump WH just released public comments submitted to voter fraud commission without redacting email addresses, home addresses & phone numbers," University of Virginia Miller Center Senior Fellow Chris Lu, formerly the White House Cabinet Secretary under Obama, tweeted.

Chris Lu

Analysis: At the six-month milestone, can Trump turn around his struggling presidency?

Trump is having the most difficult first year of any modern president, says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center. "It comes from his unprecedented lack of government or military experience, and his unprecedented personality," she says.

Barbara Perry

White House Publishes Contact Information Of People Who Wrote To It Concerned About Privacy

Chris Lu, former White House Cabinet Secretary in the Obama administration and now a senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center, said the disclosure merited further investigation. “This is either gross incompetence or a blatant attempt to intimidate those who disagree with the commission. Either way, it’s very troubling and should be investigated further,” Lu wrote in an email. He added he couldn’t recall the Obama White House releasing similar contact information.

Chris Lu

In the White House, Out of Control

"The chaos. That's what's different," Perry says of the nascent Trump administration. "Here is his dilemma: he won [the presidency] by saying in effect, 'I am the chaos candidate. I will blow things up. I'm not like some politicians you hate.'" So while outsiders see an undisciplined White House and even-less disciplined set of Twitter fingers, Trump is just being Trump, Perry and others say. "He's chaotic. He doesn't see things linearly," she says. And "the one thing he can control," his Twitter feed, "he abuses," Perry adds.

Barbara Perry

White House releases voter-fraud comments, personal info included

As noted by former Deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu on Twitter, however, the commission published 112 pages of public comment "without redacting email addresses, home addresses & phone numbers."

Chris Lu