White House chief of staff John Kelly reportedly close to resigning – live updates
Kelly and Donald Trump have stopped speaking to each other in the last few days, CNN reports
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Nick Ayers, now the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is reportedly the top candidate to become White House chief of staff. The Huffington Post ran a detailed profile of Ayers earlier this year, noting that he has developed a knack for staying on Trump’s good side.
He’s also had some questionable financial dealings, not immediately selling his lucrative consulting business, C5 Creative Solutions, when he came to work at the White House, as previous administrations would have required. He also got a broad ethics waiver allowing him to talk to former clients. In his mid 30s, he has reported a personal net worth between $12 million and just over $54 million.
Ahead of the expected release of new information in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation Friday, Donald Trump launched a new tirade on Twitter against the investigator in the early morning hours.
Trump alleged that Mueller and former FBI director James Comey are “Best Friends,” which he called a conflict of interest. In fact, associates say that while the men have a good relationship they are not personal friends and don’t socialize outside of work functions, according to the Washington Post.
Robert Mueller and Leakin’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best Friends, just one of many Mueller Conflicts of Interest. And bye the way, wasn’t the woman in charge of prosecuting Jerome Corsi (who I do not know) in charge of “legal” at the corrupt Clinton Foundation? A total Witch Hunt…
….Will Robert Mueller’s big time conflicts of interest be listed at the top of his Republicans only Report. Will Andrew Weissman’s horrible and vicious prosecutorial past be listed in the Report. He wrongly destroyed people’s lives, took down great companies, only to be……..
…..overturned, 9-0, in the United States Supreme Court. Doing same thing to people now. Will all of the substantial & many contributions made by the 17 Angry Democrats to the Campaign of Crooked Hillary be listed in top of Report. Will the people that worked for the Clinton….
….Foundation be listed at the top of the Report? Will the scathing document written about Lyin’ James Comey, by the man in charge of the case, Rod Rosenstein (who also signed the FISA Warrant), be a big part of the Report? Isn’t Rod therefore totally conflicted? Will all of….
…the lying and leaking by the people doing the Report, & also Bruce Ohr (and his lovely wife Molly), Comey, Brennan, Clapper, & all of the many fired people of the FBI, be listed in the Report? Will the corruption within the DNC & Clinton Campaign be exposed?..And so much more!