White House staffers slam report about toxic work environment as 'wildly insane'

White House staff are divided after current and former staffers alleged that a former associate director for advance verbally abused employees and told interns to do chores.

Current staffers, speaking to Fox News Digital on condition of anonymity, said that those reports were highly misleading.

Ian Mellul is the former associate director of presidential advance, which is in charge of preparing the ground for the president's political events. He "resigned March 1 after a monthslong investigation," per a Politico report.

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"Mellul — who did advance for Biden’s 2020 campaign and joined the White House early on in the presidency — would threaten staffers that he would ‘ruin your life’ when mistakes were made and regularly called junior staffers 'pieces of s---' and 'worthless,' according to two of the people who witnessed his actions," Politico reported.

Mellul also reportedly ordered interns to do personal chores for him, "like picking up his dry cleaning."

Mellul, however, denied that he ever made such demands of interns. "That is simply not true," he told Fox News Digital in a statement.

"I love all of my colleagues; they are committed, skilled, and brilliant public servants," he said. "To anyone who felt otherwise at any time, I’m sorry and I want them to know that. It’s been the honor of a lifetime working with this team, and I’m so proud of everything we’ve done together. After over three amazing years in the White House, I wanted to start a new chapter."

The controversy around Mellul comes after the White House Counsel's Office started an investigation into the advance team amid rumors of harassment. White House deputy press secretary