part of the reason proouitt wen on is precisely because he thought he would get no air coverage from anyone else in the white house. then kelly told him to stop. correct. he felt like he had to go out and plead his case. now kelly s move here is a big gamble, if you ask me, to let it be known that you are this guy. if trump turns around and does not fire scott pruitt, it completely undermines kelly. within the administration. so i think there s multiple here. i think kelly is in a tough spot, too. in your reporting, trump v trurp s freezing out. no question kelly has lost a lot of influence, that the president has stopped consulting him. he opposed the hiring of john bolton. he did it any way. made the offer when kelly wasn t there. kelly didn t accompany him to mar-a-lago last weekend when he went on his twitter tirade about
it, completely undermines kelly s standing within the administration. i think there s multiple balls in the air here. i think kelly s in a tough spot, too. jonathan, you re reporting that trump is freezing out kelly. there s no question kelly has lost a lot of influence within the west wing, that the president has stopped consulting him for a lot of key decisions. he an opposed the hiring of john bolton. trump did it anyway made the job offer when kelly wasn t there. kelly didn t accompany him to mar-a-lago when trump went on a twitter tirade and tariffs. he wasn t on the call when trump called putin and congratulated him and said to him, good job on your reelection. we know kelli is frustrated too and that is told people around him he hoped to make the year mark which would be july. he started expressing doubts he ll get that far. the presidents is this is all connected to him feeling like i
so how chaotic and high level is the trump west wing staff wars? the chief-of-staff john kelly summoned a group of reporters to his office in an effort to clear the air, take some blame and try to turn the page. we ll get to the details of what was discussed in a moment but it almost doesn t matter. this does. en an hour after the session ended accounts quoting other west wing officials that kelly didn t have his facts straight. kelly closed the meeting to try to close the books on how he handle the rob porter situation. the timing was a bad surreal. this past week dominated by much fresher staff chaos including the resignation of hope hicks and constant accounts of tension between kelly himself and jared kushner. abbey and michael, you were both in this session. i just found it remarkable that
was published in the daily mail. john kelly said today that rob porter resigned twice on the day that the daily mail came to them. the next day they continued to defend him. the next day sarah sanders went to the podium and said he would be staying on for several weeks longer. it doesn t add up at all. we also know from our sources that multiple people in the white house were told that there were serious problems with his security clearance process due to abuse allegations in his past. kelly didn t address that. staends by his comments on a somewhat legalistic ground that the office that deals with these issues didn t tell him that there was a problem with domestic abuse in rob porter s clearance file. gloria, great column out today. thank you. fantastic. it s so well sourced. you re talking to people who are in donald trump s corner. they want him to succeed.
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