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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 07:37 AM Jun 2017

Trump gives Priebus until July 4th to clean up White House... or he is out

The president has threatened to oust his chief of staff if major changes are not made, but many are skeptical he’ll follow through.


By TARA PALMERI 06/11/2017 09:17 PM EDT

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.

Trump had been mulling bringing on Bossie as his deputy White House chief of staff and Lewandowski as a White House senior adviser with a portfolio that includes Russia, but told the two at that meeting that they would not be joining the White House until Priebus had a fair chance to clean up shop, according to the sources.

"I'm giving you until July 4," Trump said, according to a person with knowledge of the conversation.

"I don't want them to come into this mess. If I'm going to clean house, they will come in as fresh blood."

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/11/donald-trump-reince-priebus-deadline-239411


* So you destroy your house and your'e blaming someone else and they have to fix it too? roflmao!!!

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Trump gives Priebus until July 4th to clean up White House... or he is out (Original Post) SummerSnow Jun 2017 OP
I am sure we will miss him when he is gone. NOT appleannie1943 Jun 2017 #1
Why does Priebus even bother? C_U_L8R Jun 2017 #2
Why would he stay and wait, no matter what happens he will fire him. SummerSnow Jun 2017 #4
The best thing that can happen (for this country) is for Priebus to resign. Tatiana Jun 2017 #3
After yesterdays cabinet buttkissfestival, Priebus really laid it on . He might be staying.lol SummerSnow Jun 2017 #12
So this means edhopper Jun 2017 #5
Those would be the best fireworks ever. Nt leftyladyfrommo Jun 2017 #6
Lol Lotusflower70 Jun 2017 #7
Trumpendence Day! PoorMonger Jun 2017 #8
wait NewJeffCT Jun 2017 #9
The only way to fix things is to fire trump Gothmog Jun 2017 #10
kick for visibility L. Coyote Jun 2017 #11

appleannie1943

(1,303 posts)
1. I am sure we will miss him when he is gone. NOT
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 07:43 AM
Jun 2017

The only way to clean up the White House is to get Trump and friends out of it. All the way down to the misshaped Huckleberry pie.

C_U_L8R

(44,897 posts)
2. Why does Priebus even bother?
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 07:56 AM
Jun 2017

Trump's PR strategy is freakin abusive... I mean really, regardless of how anyone feels about Priebus, this is a fucking twisted way Trump treats the people who work for him. And remember Comey's firing... that was handled so poorly... petty, mean and demented. This Trump guy is sick in the head.

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)
3. The best thing that can happen (for this country) is for Priebus to resign.
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 07:59 AM
Jun 2017

Like Comey, being forced out will give him a bit of an ax to grind and he might be the catalyst for some of the few establishment Republicans who are not bought and paid for by Putin to turn on Trump.

Lotusflower70

(3,077 posts)
7. Lol
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 08:29 AM
Jun 2017

He made the mess but of course takes no responsibility for it and wants someone else to clean it up. Imagine that. Even if Priebus goes, the mess will stay.

PoorMonger

(844 posts)
8. Trumpendence Day!
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 08:59 AM
Jun 2017

I have to think the date is intentional ; he'll bring in enabler extrodinaire Cory Lewendowski who will 'free Trump' to be even more Trump ; and thereby hasten the downfall.

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
9. wait
Mon Jun 12, 2017, 09:09 AM
Jun 2017

why can't Trump clean up the White House himself? He's the boss after all? Or, would that take away from his golfing time?

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