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Young, rich and loyal: Nick Ayers could be Trump's next chief of staff
cnn.com ^ | 12/8/18 | Jeremy Diamond and Elizabeth Landers

Posted on 12/09/2018 5:21:59 AM PST by a little elbow grease

Trump's relationship with his chief of staff has reached a stalemate and is no longer seen as tenable by either party as the two have stopped speaking in recent days.

Trump has begun to envy the smoothly operating vice president's office, which Ayers has managed to keep distanced from the daily scrum and scandal of the White House. Ayers has cultivated key allies, including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. He also boasts an impressive track record in Republican politics that could serve the President well in the run-up to his 2020 re-election.

But Ayers' meteoric rise has also earned him his fair share of critics, including a few inside the White House. While plans were floated in November for Ayers to become the new chief of staff, multiple sources told CNN, they stalled amid the President's reluctance to fire Kelly -- who typically does the firing for Trump -- and the backbiting Ayers has faced from some of his West Wing colleagues. Several of Trump's top advisers have voiced concerns to him about Ayers, with some threatening to quit if he is tapped for the job. One of Ayers' top West Wing detractors during the process has been Kellyanne Conway, the combative counselor to the President who vehemently opposed Ayers' hire as Pence's chief of staff last year, two former White House officials and a source familiar with the matter said.

Conway disputes those allegations, telling CNN: "I have zero beef with Nick Ayers."

Outside the White House, former colleagues of Ayers say his relative youth and outsized ego -- conspicuous even in a world known for naked ambition and self-aggrandizement -- have rubbed fellow political operatives the wrong way. His allies say that people are just jealous or insecure.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ayers; chiefofstaff; trump
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To: Vaduz
"When they just make thing up they always use the same old lame line.

multiple sources told CNN"

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........ and "unnamed sources" .......unidentified, undisclosed blah blah, blah.

41 posted on 12/09/2018 8:45:59 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: Revolutionary
Two critical things for the next Chief of Staff.

1. The energy to keep up with President Trump.

2. The ability to say no to those not on the Trump train.

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Ayers has #1. I'm not completely sure about him and #2.

42 posted on 12/09/2018 8:48:37 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: blackberry1

Pence and the GOPe are not those warriors.

And a judicial legacy is not enough.


43 posted on 12/09/2018 8:50:07 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Sequoyah101
"I hate to say that I’m doubting Trump’s judgement in selecting people. He is beginning to appear overwhelmed."

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Your doubt is understandable.

And, to me, he has appeared to be overwhelmed for a while now.

Here's hoping everything works out for him and the country.

44 posted on 12/09/2018 8:52:34 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: thinden

Ayers lives in Atlanta with his wife Jamie (née Floyd), a former schoolteacher from Houston County, Georgia. They were married in May 2005. Mrs. Ayers is a second cousin of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue.[9] The Ayerses have triplets, born in December 2012.[51]

He serves on the board of directors (and is currently board secretary) of Leading the Way, an international Christian ministry, headed by Dr. Michael Youssef.[52]

According to his financial disclosure reports, Ayers’ net worth is between $12 million and $54 million.[35][24] He owns farmland in Georgia worth between $2.5 million and $11 million.[24]

He is 2nd cousin to Sonny Perdue, Christian and from Georgia. I doubt any relation to Bill.


45 posted on 12/09/2018 8:52:57 AM PST by Engedi
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To: thinden
I value her judgement, and it would be devastating, imo, to lose her from 2020. ---------

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agreed.

46 posted on 12/09/2018 8:53:41 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: 9YearLurker; trebb
"And I expect Trump wants to hear from me about as much as I want to read your snark."

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LMAO ...........

9YearLurker, I didn't even know that "snark" was a noun. I looked it up. IT IS.

"Snarky" as an adjective.... sure. But a noun. That's great.

47 posted on 12/09/2018 9:01:38 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: blackberry1

Do you think this young person who has accomplished all that he has for himself is a warrior for any cause or principle other than himself? I marvel that anyone can successfully live on the razors edge of selling access and showing loyalty without getting cut.


48 posted on 12/09/2018 9:03:26 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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To: Engedi; spintreebob

thanx for the bonafides on nick


49 posted on 12/09/2018 9:04:05 AM PST by thinden
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To: a little elbow grease

See CNN makes sure that you know he is rich, most of the non journalists, owners of the fake news media, Hollywood owners and actors and rat politicians are rich but this is not the issue, HE is rich and conservative this is the issue


50 posted on 12/09/2018 9:11:11 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: 9YearLurker

Referencing the Daily Beast is an indictment of one’s political position....on par with believing the tripe on MSNBC.


51 posted on 12/09/2018 9:58:03 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: blackberry1

You have no argument, clearly.


52 posted on 12/09/2018 10:11:15 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: ronnie raygun; Sequoyah101; Engedi; spintreebob; thinden
"See CNN makes sure that you know he is rich, most of the non journalists, owners of the fake news media, Hollywood owners and actors and rat politicians are rich but this is not the issue, HE is rich and conservative this is the issue."

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That's correct.

They feel the need to "caricature" the supposed enemy ..... conservatives of any stripe.

And day after day, month after month, year after year the caricature makes its ugly, ominous way into the ignorant voters' subconscious.

ELECTIONS ARE LOST TO THE MEDIA.

THE NATION IS LOST TO THE MEDIA.

53 posted on 12/09/2018 10:52:47 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: Sequoyah101; blackberry1
"Do you think this young person who has accomplished all that he has for himself is a warrior for any cause or principle other than himself? I marvel that anyone can successfully live on the razors edge of selling access and showing loyalty without getting cut."

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Good question. What do YOU think?

54 posted on 12/09/2018 10:54:51 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: 9YearLurker

The proof is in the puddin’......talk to him....the last two times folks tried to tell Trump he was wrong about something, and took action to ‘help” him, we lost a seat to the dems in Alabama and then required a runoff election in Mississippi....some of us take our political savvy way too serious as we look in from the distance.


55 posted on 12/10/2018 2:19:41 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: a little elbow grease; 9YearLurker
I might need to change my screen name. Maybe something ominous..."Beware the Snark"

And maybe change my tagline to: "Ignore Trump - winning ain't all it's cracked up to be"

56 posted on 12/10/2018 2:37:25 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: trebb; All

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-nick-ayers-will-not-replace-general-kelly/

Breaking: Nick Ayers Will NOT Replace General Kelly … Will Leave White House Instead


57 posted on 12/10/2018 2:50:00 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: trebb

I think you’ve jumped the snark.


58 posted on 12/10/2018 4:05:37 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: a little elbow grease

Indeed more members of the banana republic.


59 posted on 12/10/2018 7:04:48 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Looks like the concern trolls got their panties in a twist over nothing.....again.


60 posted on 12/10/2018 10:18:48 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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