President Donald Trump has replaced his chief of staff, Reince Priebus with the Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly after Reince Preibus tender
President Donald Trump has replaced his chief of staff, Reince Priebus with the Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly after Reince Preibus tendered his resignation on Thursday. This comes a day after the president’s new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci accused Reince Priebus, a former Republican National Committee chairman, of leaking information to reporters in a profanity-laced tirade.
“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…” the president wrote, continuing in a second tweet with “…and a Great Leader. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration.”
In just over six months in office, Trump has shed his first national security adviser (Michael Flynn), communications director (Mike Dubke), press secretary (Sean Spicer), deputy chief of staff (Katie Walsh), deputy national security adviser (K.T. McFarland) and now his chief of staff. His attorney general, Republican former senator Jeff Sessions, has been in an increasingly tenuous position, with the president openly criticising him, but stopping short of firing him or asking him to resign.
Priebus never managed to assert himself as a traditional chief of staff in Trump’s profoundly unorthodox White House. He never controlled access to the president, did not manage the mercurial commander in chief’s time, and his power to hire and fire was perpetually questioned by rivals for West Wing power. Aides also said Trump had never completely forgiven Priebus for suggesting he quit the 2016 presidential race after the release of an audio recording in which Trump seemed to brag about getting away with sexual assault.
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