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With Priebus out, Trump moves still further away from the Republican establishment https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/28/with-priebus-out-trump-moves-still-further-away-from-the-republican-establishment/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_fix-priebusestablishment-626pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.95e9d4a6f336
President Trump is not happy with the way his presidency is going. That much has become clear over the past few weeks. He’s shaken up his personal legal team, completely upended his communications team by installing a guy who’s threatening to fire/kill staffers (Ahahah I think I like Scarmunga- he will lose it live on air you know), and now he’s ousted his chief of staff, Reince Priebus.
Trump announced Friday afternoon that he is replacing Priebus with retired Gen. John Kelly, currently the homeland security secretary.
With every staff move, Trump seems to be moving ever further away from the Republican establishment and building a much more insular team that fits his narrow worldview. Nowhere is this more evident than in the Priebus-Kelly switch.
Kelly isn’t a traditional choice for such a political job. He’s a retired Marine Corps general who has expressed no nuance about the war on terrorism. He has described terrorists as a “savage” enemy and publicly clashed with former president Barack Obama on whether to close Guantanamo Bay.
Kelly and Trump don’t agree on everything. During his confirmation hearing, Kelly distanced himself from Trump’s border wall (“a physical barrier in and of itself … will not do the job”) and torture (“Absolutely not,” he said about whether he would carry out a hypothetical Trump order to bring back waterboarding.) The Senate approved him 88-11, with all Republicans voting for his nomination.
By contrast, Priebus is the very definition of the Republican establishment. He ran the Republican National Committee during the election. He’s buddies with that other Republican establishment figure, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) — they’re both from Wisconsin — and has been a GOP operative for years.
Actually, it’s not much of an overstatement to say that Priebus, along with Vice President Pence, was Trump’s connection to Capitol Hill insiders. On Thursday, Ryan defended Priebus: “Reince is doing a fantastic job at the White House, and I believe he has the president's confidence.”
Smoothing Trump’s relationship with the establishment was arguably the reason Trump picked Priebus in the first place. It was an olive branch to the very people he had assailed on the campaign trail, as The Washington Post reported at the time.
No more olive branches, it seems. Sean Spicer, another Republican establishment figure, is out after Trump hired New York financier Anthony Scaramucci as White House communications director.
You've all seen me ramble on civil war the senate having no balls and I have become fascinated on who will bring him down - who will it be dear readers?
1. Spicer was his best pick and nice to see him have bals I always knew he had
2. Sessions - Ive explained my preference on that - he must now let Trump Sack him
3. Tillerson - I know I slag him off with his 200 million Exxon shares but he did give a lot of that up and future options
4. trumps not a "Republican" even I know that - what is he then? He is not a democrat either.
5. And god bless McCain - who knew the wily olde tiger had ball,s and that 3rd vote was 51 to 49 John McCain votes 'No' on 'skinny repeal' of Obamacare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNwLDj6D520
And playing in the background we have Muller and several investigations
Or will it be him alienating the grande Olde Party?
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