U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (left) and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. REUTERS
Anthony Scaramucci, the flashy financier President Trump hired to overhaul the White House communications operation, is exercising a broad mandate from the president and intends to follow through on threats to purge aides he believes are disloyal to Trump and leaking to the press, officials with knowledge of the fast-moving effort said Monday.
Just four days into the job, Scaramucci has moved into Trump’s inner sanctum and is now described by some colleagues as almost family to the president — in contrast to his predecessor, outgoing press secretary Sean Spicer, who was described more like the help.
In consultation with confidants inside and outside the administration, Scaramucci has begun undertaking an audit of the White House’s dozens of press and communications staffers. He is meeting one-on-one with aides in an effort to understand each person’s contributions and weed out those he determines are not working hard enough to defend the president through the crises besieging the White House, according to several of the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal issues.
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WNU Editor: There is zero evidence that President Trump is on the verge of replacing some key cabinet members of his administration, but it is not stopping the press corp and punditry class from speculating on who is staying and who is going ....
Trump shames Sessions amid shake-up speculation (Politico)
Cruz being considered to replace Sessions: report (The Hill)
Unrest bubbles among Trump's key foreign policy aides: sources (Reuters)
Could Rex Tillerson quit as Secretary of State just months into job? Friends from 'outside Washington' claim he is on the brink (Daily Mail)
A chill emanating from the White House reaches State Department (CNN)
As to what is my take .... it is hard to run a government when you are the outsider .... and the people who you choose at the beginning to be in your administration may not be the ones you want a few months later. I experienced this once in a business venture .... and I suspect that President Trump is experiencing this in government right now..
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Its hard to run a job youre not fit for...
He's fit for the job, it's just the establishment politicians around him are letting him down. I would take a business man with real world experience over a career politician any day.
Fight the good fight
Pence: "WHAT, ME WORRY?"
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-to-trust-a-story-that-uses-unnamed-sources/amp/
"What’s a reader to do? Well, here’s a guide to unnamed sources in government/politics/Washington stories — who they are, how reporters use them, and how to tell if you should trust what they say. "
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/which-anonymous-sources-are-worth-paying-attention-to/
"In the first part of our guide to unnamed sources, we laid out some general tips for making sense of these kinds of stories. In this part, we want to get more specific, to help you to essentially decode these stories. We also want you to be able to know which stories you should rely on based on the different kinds of sourcing used."
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