Posted on 04/07/2017 5:14:19 AM PDT by BurgessKoch
President Trump is considering a broad shakeup of his White House that could include the replacement of White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and the departure of chief strategist Steve Bannon, aides and advisers tell us.
A top aide to Trump said he's contemplating major changes, but that the situation is very fluid and the timing uncertain: "Things are happening, but it's very unclear the president's willing to pull that trigger."
Insiders tell me that the possibilities for chief of staff include:
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who developed a bond with Trump as one of the earlier congressional leaders to support him, and remains a confidant. Wayne Berman of Blackstone Group, a Washington heavy-hitter who was an Assistant Secretary of Commerce under President George H.W. Bush, and a key adviser on eight presidential campaigns. David Urban of the Washington advisory firm American Continental Group, and a former chief of staff to the late Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.). Urban helped Trump win an upset victory in Pennsylvania, and was in constant cellphone contact with the candidate throughout the campaign. Gary Cohn, Trump's economic adviser and the former #2 at Goldman Sachs, who has built a formidable team and internal clout. The West Wing "Game of Thrones" has been raging ever since Trump took office. But the war between the nationalists and the moderates, led by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, burst into the open this week after Bannon was taken off the National Security Council, setting off a torrent of leaks against him.
Bannon called reports that he was ready to quit "100 percent nonsense."
Axios' Jonathan Swan reports that Bannon told associates: "I love a gunfight."
The top aide — along with many other Trump officials, advisers and friends — told us that it seems to be more a question of "when" not "whether" change will come: "The tension, the exhaustion, the raw nerves have gotten much harder to disguise."
Brevity is the soul of wit. And verbose pomposity... well it actually has a name regularly appended to it around here.
It’s interesting self-editing on twitter. You really have to pay attention to every word, every letter. Just for writing practice, it’s fun. (Otherwise, it’s a sewer!!!)
Brutal combat in 144. It can be addicting.
I check your comments daily.
I generally lurk there but follow many people including President Trump.
Rush really wasted today, didn’t he?
“after Bannon was taken off the National Security Council”
i stopped reading this BS right there, since this sentence is utter nonsense.
all of us here who are paying attention know Bannon was not “taken off” the NSC; in fact, he was seen attending a meeting yesterday.
Mike Allen is a Karl Rove minion, so this is Rove gossip.
He did. The day after an American military action that can shape the future and we get golf and Apple and Samsung. You can’t make this stuff up.
I’ll see if Hannity does better.
I haven’t come across the pic, though I imagine someone else here will.
But I don’t take it as a good sign that we’ve taken to reading photographs and positioning vis-a-vis the leader like the old Kremlin politburo.
Meh. Sign of the hysteria around here.
So now McCarthy is a Soros puppet? Typical Looney Tunes crap. You should just go ahead and off yourself since the whole world is on his payroll.
Good news if you don’t already know...
US officials say military hotline with Russia remains open
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/07/us-officials-say-military-hotline-with-russia-remains-open.html
Tillerson Talks
He’s Ryan’s right hand man. Ryan is on the Soros payroll.
Oooooo. So what Ryan has other donors who vastly over-shadow any contributions by Soros. Now if you can prove a quid pro quo I might worry, but you can’t.
All Congressmen have donors with conflicting interests and desires, there is nothing new about that nor does it concern me.
Soros favors those he donates to.
The amount doesn’t matter.
All of Trump’s appointments are suspect at this point.
Allowing Jamie Gorelick in the White House?
Soros is irrelevant wrt Ryan and his actions.
Fortunately your suspicions of Trump’s appointments are also irrelevant and not based on valid information.
While I hate Gorelick, too. I can understand that she might be a great lawyer when properly directed.
You can’t always get what you want in politics.
You make an attempt to justify Jamie Gorelick?
I justify nothing. My advice was not sought but I am reminded of Don Corleone’s advice “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”
Maybe she said “I’m sorry for all the damage I did for Clinton.”
You DO try to justify Jamie Gorelick, Miss Pestilence herself.
Ok; have a great weekend!
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