35 and counting: The list of senior officials who have left the Trump administration (so far)

Here's President Donald Trump on Tuesday seeking to beat back criticism that his White House is in crisis amid a series of high-profile staff departures:

"Many, many people want every single job. You know, I read where, 'Oh, gee, maybe people don't want to work for Trump.' And believe me, everybody wants to work in the White House. They all want a piece of that Oval Office; they want a piece of the West Wing. And not only in terms of it looks great on their résumé; it's just a great place to work."

Trump's insistence that the White House is "a great place to work" seems to be belied by the fact that so many senior aides have either resigned or been fired over just the first year of this presidency.

This list, compiled with an assist from Brenna Williams and CNN's White House reporters, contains almost three dozen people who were hired or nominated by Trump or were advisers to him and left between January 20 and today. Each name is linked to a story about their departure -- if you want to go deeper.

(One note: This would be an even longer list if it included people like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Sally Yates and Preet Bharara -- all holdovers from a past administration who have left or been fired by Trump.)

    Michael Flynn

    Katie Walsh

    K.T. McFarland

    Michael Dubke

    Sean Spicer

    Michael Short

    Tera Dahl

    Mark Corallo

    Reince Priebus

    Anthony Scaramucci

    Derek Harvey

    George Sifakis

    Ezra Cohen-Watnick

    Carl Icahn

    Steve Bannon

    Sebastian Gorka

    Rich Higgins

    William Bradford

    Keith Schiller

    Tom Price

    Jamie Johnson

    John Feeley

    Rick Dearborn

    Jeremy Katz

    Carl Higbie

    Dina Powell

    Omarosa Manigault Newman

    Taylor Weyeneth

    Rob Porter

    David Sorensen

    Brenda Fitzgerald

    Rachel Brand

    Hope Hicks

    Josh Raffel

    Gary Cohn

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