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Title: Reince Priebus Pushed Out After Rocky Tenure as Trump Chief of Staff
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NY Times
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Published: Jul 28, 2017
Author: PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN
Post Date: 2017-07-28 18:10:41 by Ada
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Reince Priebus, seen in June, was forced out as the White House chief of staff on Friday. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff who failed to impose order on a chaos-wracked West Wing, was pushed out on Friday after a stormy six-month tenure, and President Trump replaced him with John F. Kelly, the secretary of homeland security and retired four-star Marine general. Mr. Trump announced Mr. Kelly’s appointment on Twitter shortly before 5 p.m. and only afterward sent out another message thanking Mr. Priebus for his service. “We accomplished a lot together and I am proud of him!” Mr. Trump wrote. Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American.... 4:49 PM - Jul 28, 2017 11,257 11,257 Replies 13,951 13,951 Retweets 36,995 36,995 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump ...and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration 4:54 PM - Jul 28, 2017 4,334 4,334 Replies 7,236 7,236 Retweets 25,142 25,142 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Follow Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump I would like to thank Reince Priebus for his service and dedication to his country. We accomplished a lot together and I am proud of him! 5:00 PM - Jul 28, 2017 11,702 11,702 Replies 7,256 7,256 Retweets 26,290 26,290 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Mr. Priebus’s ouster was the latest convulsion in a White House that has been whipsawed by feuds and political setbacks in recent days. The president became convinced that Mr. Priebus was not strong enough to run the White House operation and that he needed a general to take charge. Mr. Kelly, who has demonstrated strong leadership at the Department of Homeland Security, had become a favorite of Mr. Trump’s. Just hours earlier, the president had heaped praise on Mr. Kelly at an event in Long Island talking about the battle against the violent MS-13 gang. “I want to congratulate John Kelly, who has done an incredible job of secretary of homeland security,” the president said. “One of our real stars. Truly one of our stars. John Kelly is one of our great stars.” But some advisers to Mr. Trump were opposed to the choice, arguing that Mr. Kelly did not have the political background for the job. “The president needs someone who understands the Trump constituency as his chief of staff, someone who has both administrative skills and political savvy,” Roger Stone, Mr. Trump’s off-and-on adviser, said, anticipating Mr. Kelly’s selection before the announcement was made. Photo Gen. John F. Kelly in April. President Trump has replaced Mr. Priebus with Mr. Kelly as the chief of staff. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times Mr. Priebus, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, lost his job just hours after the president’s signature drive to repeal his predecessor’s health care program collapsed on the Senate floor and a day after an ugly feud with the new communications director erupted in a public airing of the deep animosities plaguing the White House. Continue reading the main story The Trump White House The historic moments, head-spinning developments and inside-the-White House intrigue. North Korea Tests a Ballistic Missile That Experts Say Could Hit California JUL 28 On Health, Republicans Find They Cannot Beat Something With Nothing JUL 28 Trump Fuels Intrigue Surrounding a Former I.T. Worker’s Arrest JUL 28 You Talkin’ to Me? Trump’s White House Gets Some New York Attitude JUL 28 5 Takeaways From the Failed Senate Effort to Repeal Obamacare JUL 28 See More » RELATED COVERAGE Second Chance for ‘Obamacare’ Repeal. And for Reince Priebus. MAY 5, 2017 Donald Trump Picks Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff and Stephen Bannon as Strategist NOV. 13, 2016 RECENT COMMENTS CEBVA 5 minutes ago I never trusted the little weasel and wondered why Trump appointed him in the first place. Probably an attempt to hold out an olive branch... phoebe 6 minutes ago Maybe all the ousted Trump people can get together and work towards impeachment...seems he may be making quite a few enemies. JL 6 minutes ago At the risk of stating the obvious-- Trump is the most dangerous and unstable individual ever to serve in the White House. It is remarkable... SEE ALL COMMENTS WRITE A COMMENT The announcement capped a fraught 24 hours in which the president’s advisers waited for a change they had long anticipated. Mr. Priebus accompanied Mr. Trump on Air Force One for a day trip to Long Island as his fate was being decided. Making for a tense flight, his rival, Anthony Scaramucci, the communications director who had publicly vowed to force Mr. Priebus’s resignation, was also on the plane and in the motorcade. In barely half a year on the job, Mr. Priebus never won the full confidence of the president nor was granted the authority to impose a working organizational structure on the West Wing. Always seeming to be on the edge of ouster, Mr. Priebus saw his fate finally sealed a week ago when Mr. Trump hired Mr. Scaramucci, an edgy Wall Street financier, over the chief of staff’s objections. Mr. Priebus’s ally, Sean Spicer, the press secretary, resigned in protest. More than just a personnel dispute, the disagreement suggested a broader cleavage that would lead to Mr. Priebus’ resignation. In tapping Mr. Scaramucci, Mr. Trump was turning to a wealthy New Yorker who had become part of his inner circle, and who compensated in charisma and rapport with Mr. Trump and his family for what he lacked in governing experience. Mr. Priebus represented a more conventional breed of senior White House figure, chosen by the president despite a career defined by the calculations of traditional Republican Party politics, which Mr. Trump regards as part of “the swamp” he was elected to drain. Mr. Priebus and Mr. Spicer had told the president they believed Mr. Scaramucci, a gregarious hedge fund manager and fund-raiser, lacked the political experience and organizational skills required to serve in the role of communications director. In the end, however, those warnings fell on deaf ears and further soured Mr. Trump, who almost from the start suggested both publicly and privately that the job of his chief of staff was not safe. Newsletter Sign UpContinue reading the main story Get the Morning Briefing by Email What you need to know to start your day, delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday. Enter your email address Sign Up You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. SEE SAMPLE MANAGE EMAIL PREFERENCES PRIVACY POLICY OPT OUT OR CONTACT US ANYTIME Mr. Scaramucci made clear when he was hired that he did not report to Mr. Priebus but directly to the president and by Wednesday night was publicly suggesting that the chief of staff was a leaker and even threatened to seek an F.B.I. investigation. On Thursday, he went on television and dared Mr. Priebus to deny leaking and described the two of them as Cain and Abel, the biblical brothers whose rivalry results in one killing the other. On Thursday evening, The New Yorker posted an interview with Mr. Scaramucci that included a profanity-laced tirade against Mr. Priebus. He called Mr. Priebus a “paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac,” who leaked information against him and vowed to get him fired. “He’ll be asked to resign very shortly,” Mr. Scaramucci said. As party chairman last year, Mr. Priebus was slow to embrace Mr. Trump’s candidacy and the president, who sometimes called him “Reincey” in private, never let his chief of staff forget it. . Mr. Trump had often joked about his chief of staff’s long-term loyalty, and liked reminding the people around him that Mr. Priebus suggested that he consider dropping out after the release of the “Access Hollywood” tape of Mr. Trump’s crude remarks about women were made public in October. A native of Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Priebus rose through the ranks of the Republican Party to be his state’s chairman, amassing power by establishing relationships with party donors and becoming an effective operator within the national party, which he was chosen to lead in 2011. One of his top allies was a fellow Republican from Wisconsin, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, who publicly defended Mr. Priebus on Thursday when no one in the White House would. 340 COMMENTS With many former members of President George W. Bush’s administration unwilling to work for a president they regard as unqualified or blackballed because of their opposition to Mr. Trump’s candidacy last year, Mr. Priebus staffed the West Wing with an assortment of Republican veterans and some of his core staff at the R.N.C., including his former deputy, Katie Walsh. But the assimilation of the R.N.C. into the West Wing was fraught and Ms. Walsh and others departed. Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, soured on Mr. Priebus, partly because of what he has viewed as Mr. Spicer’s shortcomings. Other senior advisers bristled at his demeanor or suspected he was undermining him. An alliance of convenience with Stephen K. Bannon, the nationalist and decidedly anti-establishment chief strategist, seemed to fade in recent weeks.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
America voted for anti-establishment, drain them all.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
======================================= The single greatest reformation in this country's history (after the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights) would be to TERM LIMIT congress and senate to ONE TERM and completely ELIMINATE ALL CONGRESSIONAL RETIREMENTS. U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
#2. To: Lod (#1)
America voted for anti-establishment, drain them all.
#3. To: Ada (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#4. To: X-15 (#3)
I don't place much faith in Infowars; but if they (and Limbaugh) are right, it might explain all these generals surrounding Trump. Deep State could be recruiting retired generals to lead military coup
#5. To: Ada, X-15 (#4)
Deep state preparing for a coup?????? Hardly. That is nonsense. Any military coup will appear with Trump as their leader. To think otherwise is foolish. The ruling cabal has Trump on the ropes, why on earth would they risk everything with a coup. If the military is called to action, it will be with Trump trying to save the country. I don't place much faith in Infowars; but if they (and Limbaugh) are right, it might explain all these generals surrounding Trump. Deep State could be recruiting retired generals to lead military coup
#6. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#2)
And then prohibiting dual citizens from working in and lobbying to the government...
"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning
#7. To: Cynicom (#5)
Trump is surrounding himself with active military. If there is any truth to this tale, the coup would be carried out by retired military/retired CIA, i.e., private citizens. Any military coup will appear with Trump as their leader.
#8. To: Rotara (#6)
And they can start with "Da Mare" of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. ;) And then prohibiting dual citizens from working in and lobbying to the government
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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