Chief of staff Kelly giving up?

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...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...