NBC News: Trump Ousts Chief of Staff Priebus, Installs Ret. Gen. Kelly
President Donald Trump on Friday removed his chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and tapped Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly for the job.
The stunning shakeup comes the day after newly named White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci attacked Preibus in profane terms in an interview published Thursday and also follows the failure of Republicans in Congress to repeal Obamacare.
Preibus' fate was largely tied to the fate of the GOP effort on health care, a source close to the White House told NBC News.
"He failed," the source said.
The Republican failure to undo the Affordable Care Act — one of Trump's central campaign promises — was the “final straw” for Priebus, another source close to the administration told NBC.
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WNU Editor: The Chief of Staff is the person responsible for pushing the President's agenda. After last night's health care debacle, I guess the decision was then made to remove him. I was on a Russian talk radio show this morning and I said that the White House is a mess, but President Trump's cabinet picks and how they are running their departments .... Mattis, Timmerson, Kelly, Sessions, etc. .... have been excellent and it is they who have saved his Presidency. President Trump's decision to choose John Kelly as his new Chief of Staff is (I can only guess) a recognition of this, and I suspect that they are many in the White House and in the Republican Party who are now relieved by this choice. What comes after .... and will President Trump give his new Chief of Staff the leeway to run the White House .... well that is another story.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2017/7/28/123343/381
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/27/russia-investigation-delves-into-trumps-most-guarded-business-secrets/515961001/
While USA Today isn't much of a paper, it's widely read,
Meanwhile, back at the ranch:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.ca/2017/07/brownshirts-r-us.html?m=1
mooch wife to divorce him
ReplyDeleteSmart
And according to Court filings and friends comments,
DeleteIt's because Mooch's Special Love for the Named Toupee has come between the natural love between a man and wife, ( or any other married couples, mix and match to your pleasure).
LMFAO
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pulled his name from consideration for the job on Thursday after President Trump's announcement that transgender Americans would be banned from serving in the armed forces "in any capacity."
ReplyDeleteJohn Fluharty, a former executive director of the Delaware Republican party, told the agency in an email that he was no longer seeking the position of assistant secretary of partnership and engagement after Trump's announcement on Twitter Wednesday morning.
Fluharty wrote in the email, first obtained by Politico, that Trump's surprise decision to ban all transgender troops from serving in the armed forces "runs counter to my deeply held beliefs."
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/344236-top-dhs-candidate-drops-out-over-trump-transgender-troops-ban
Meanwhile, at DHS, nobody know's who's in charge,
ReplyDeletehttps://mobile.twitter.com/shaneharris/status/891055372953366528
Nobody tell the terrorists, m'kay?
Kelly was a colonel working as an action officer for a general.
ReplyDeleteNow he is a former general working as an action officer for a president.
Action officers do the leg work and make recommendation for their superiors.
Kelly is where he wants to be ...in the catbird seat.
Priebus is a nice guy, but he is not tough enough. If Scaramucci can get to him in 8 hours, then Priebus should be gone. Other than his finances, Priebus was just given a toughening up lesson.
Priebus was a signature firing. If Paul Ryan is smart, he'll get the message, toughen up and fly right ... or he will be primaried.
Scaramucci has been married 3 years.
ReplyDeleteMarried late
No kids (that I know of)
Married to a confused woman.
What were the chance that marriage would work?
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No kids; married late ... survey says greater than 3%
Reject H naught.
2 kids,
Deletehttps://www.google.ca/amp/www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon/amp
Up until he got the job, Trump hater,
1 son by this wife.
ReplyDeleteShe sounds like a nut.
LMFAO,
DeleteScarface/Joker sounded coked up,
LMFAO,
To anybody other than a Deplorable,
His wife sounds sane,
LMFAO,
Dan Savage, he who made "Santorieum" into urban slang into the reference for the mix on the sheets, after anal sex,
Is trying to do the same for "Bannoning" after Mooch's tirade,
LMFAO
I did not like the picture of Scaramucci. It made him look like an aggressor in a bad way.
ReplyDelete1/2 a day later it came out that his tax returns had been leaked maybe by Priebus.
If that is true (at this point of time I do not know & a convincing story in the press may never come out), Priebus had it coming.
Also if Priebus played hard ball by leaking the tax returns and quit, because he was called names, we really do not need Priebus anywhere near the White House.
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As a child at midday, I once opened the sheer drapes in the living room to let in a little more light. I was told that you do not do that because people are people, they are envious.
We did not have anything anyone else did not have and maybe less judging from house size.
But that is who we are monkeys whether we are from America, Europe or elsewhere.
SO someone leaked Scaramucci's financial records. No wonder he went on a tirade. He seems normal. Priebus seems swivelized.