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."
Again....the media has no REAL news.
My sources tell me that all these palace intrigue stories are made up crapola to make Trump’s administration look like it is in chaos. The NSC story is a prime example.
President Trump should send Ivanka and Jared Kushner back to New York.
They are going to cause him to lose more support than all the squealing and dirty tricks from democrats and the media.
This article is a continuation of the “war in the White House” narrative. Pure FUD.
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I agree that this “war in the White House” is pure FUD. Sad to see so many of the never-trumpers out & about this week on FR pushing this poison.
“Anybody following source Axios?”
Fake news. Mike Allen is a libtard who used to write for Politico.
Could Reince Be On His Way Out As Chief Of Staff? Daily Caller 02/12/2017
Trump needs to review the word IMPEACHMENT. He needs friends. A few non-inventionists who strongly disapprove attacking another Arab State who doesn’t pose a threat to the US plus the Rats could ruin his day.
He’s going to surround himself with members of the same Establishment who supports open borders and big government.
Or, if this is true, the uniparty’s surveillance continues to pay dividends, and Trump will have been neutralized.
We’ll see.
All the posters calling this fake news about the war in the White House don’t listen to Laura Ingraham
This is precisely what she says she is hearing from her sources
It’s Bannon and Conway and Miller on one side
Kushner and Ivanka and establishment class on the other
I think since Trump wishes to rise to world events and challenges that his ideological wing is being pushed aside by realities overtaking him
Like Syria
I hate to see it
I am firmly against the Kushner Ivanka axis
They do not represent who voted for him
If true, the question is why is he doing it. Because he wants to, or because he’s being coerced.
I’m thinking Drama Queens rather than Trolls.
No, no, no, not Kevin McCarthy.
This must be a Jared Kushner liberal insider prompt.
People aren’t listening. It is like putting their fingers in their ears and yelling la la la...or fake news fake news fake news.
Most will eventually see. Too late by then
I believe nearly nothing I read any more.
If it doesn’t come from Trump, himself, it’s bullshit.
Anyone who would rely on Jared or Ivanka to know history and think deeply; to have any Nationalist or moral principles or to give a damn about America is a fool.
And that includes Ivanka’s father.
Donald is becoming a huge disappointment.
It’s important to always believe the worst and important to believe everything the MSM says.
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