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Trump gives Priebus until July 4th to clean up White House
The president has threatened to oust his chief of staff if major changes are not made, but many are skeptical hell follow through.
President Donald Trump has set a deadline of July 4 for a shakeup of the White House that could include removing Reince Priebus as his chief of staff, according to two administration officials and three outside advisers familiar with the matter.
While Trump has set deadlines for staff changes before, only to let them pass without pulling the trigger, the president is under more scrutiny than ever regarding the sprawling Russia investigation, which is intensifying the pressure on his White House team.
Days after his return from his first foreign trip late last month, Trump berated Priebus in the Oval Office in front of his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and deputy campaign manager David Bossie for the dysfunction in the White House, according to multiple sources familiar with the conversation.
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"I'm giving you until July 4," Trump said, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/11/donald-trump-reince-priebus-deadline-239411
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)...don't know when his payday is or how much he needs another month's pay. I imagine he's well-paid and has servants and a family to support.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)since he himself is the problem.
Bucky
(54,065 posts)The administration is already dangerously understaffed. They're such a clown outfit, it's no wonder Trump can't fire Priebus... he'd spent months trying to find a competent person to take the spot.
As if Donald Trump would know what a competent administrator looks like
Kaleva
(36,342 posts)sfwriter
(3,032 posts)Ace Rothstein
(3,183 posts)This is one thing he could do that I think many in his own party would not be happy with.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)rails, Congressional Repubs accepting anything to continue the move to slash medical care and taxes. They might prefer Priebus there in lieu of another Bannon-like figure - or Corey! - but it's hard to see how dysfuntion could worsen.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)The truly scary wingnuts won't like this at all.
Pass the popcorn! This is going to be fun!
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)have had going into this shit show.
Leith
(7,813 posts)As Rachel Maddow pointed out: if you take the vowels out of Reince Priebus's name, you are left with "RNC PR BS."
Since a lot of the shit rethugs pulled happened while Rinse was working his way up the food chain in the party, I don't have any kind of sad for him. The good part is that he is obviously well connected in the organization. Word is that rethugs are frozen in place wondering what to do about tangerine boy. No doubt Rinsie can give them a few ideas if he is publicly humiliated again.
"Get Karl Rove on the phone! Time for a ratfucking!"
imanamerican63
(13,812 posts)Trump is one of those he should clean out by July 4th!!!!!
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)this clusterfuck of an administration could become a Pandora of clusterfucks all breeding into more Pandora of clusterfucks.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)rainbow4321
(9,974 posts)Now there is someone who needs to be subpoenaed.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)The one person with a decent relationship with the Republican Party establishment.
I wonder how well that's going to work for curzing White House dysfunction. Maybe Jared could be in charge of fixing it.