Chief of staff Kelly giving up?

[pdq]

...suggests an article in Politico about his successor at DHS, Kirstjen Nielsen, and her disastrous, dissembling presser re immigration policy the other day.

White House chief of staff John Kelly advised Nielsen against doing the news conference, but she charged ahead anyway, according to a senior administration official...

But Kelly’s status in the White House has changed in recent months, and he and the president are now seen as barely tolerating one another. ...While Kelly himself once believed he stood between Trump and chaos, he has told at least one person close to him that he may as well let the president do what he wants, even if it leads to impeachment - at least this chapter of American history would come to a close.

In recent months, [he has taken to gym workouts] in the middle of the day - and White House officials who pass it on the way to meetings view his late morning workouts as an indication of him having thrown in the towel on trying to have any control inside the West Wing.

miley-shocked003:

The sheer carnage of political careers ruined by this administration is astounding...

[NewtonMP2100]

.....KELLEY......Clarkson.......!!!


.....another one might bite the dust.......

[Speedy]

If Kelly is in the gym, Pres. Trump is busy tweeting.

[pdq]

Here's another one getting out while the getting is good:

White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, who led the U.S. advance team for President Donald Trump’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, is resigning, White House officials said on Tuesday...

Hagin, 62, is a veteran of Republican presidencies, having had roles in the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. He has been one of the most experienced advisers at the Trump White House...

One official said Hagin had wanted to leave some months ago, but was persuaded to stay by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.

...please don't leave me alone here...

[NewtonMP2100]

.....Trump is like a person repellent....everyone wants to just get away from him....

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...and one other news piece on another former (albeit oh-so-briefly) member of this administration:

A politician less hammer-headed than Kansas secretary of State Kris Kobach might have curled up in a ball and whimpered after the day he had in federal court yesterday. District Judge Julie Robinson (a George W. Bush appointee) decisively declared Kobach’s pet voter-ID law unconstitutional, and then ordered him to take some continuing legal education classes because he kept ignoring the basic rules of evidence and discovery during the proceedings in her court.

Yee-ouch!

The weird thing is, these are not dumb people. Kobach is a grad of Harvard and the Yale law school. But to be Seussian for a moment, he must have kinks in his soul.

Of course, the even-weirder thing is he may well be the next governor of Kansas. (!)

After Brownback, you'd think they would have learned their lesson.

:RollingEyesSmiley5:

[steve...]

Wonder how the White House Job Fair went.

[SteveG]

What makes you think John Kelly is innocent in all this. He is responsible for carrying out Trump's vilest treasons. Screw him.

[pdq]

Steve G. wrote:
What makes you think John Kelly is innocent in all this.

No, not at all - it just continually amazes me that any competent, thinking person would throw their efforts and reputation away on a clown like Trump.

I can only imagine it's like a woman who takes on a "bad boy" and imagines she will be able to win him over and change him...

[SteveG]

He knows what he is doing while he is doing it. That is beneath any level of excuse.