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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGabe Sherman's latest (VF): West Wing "This Was a Big Repudiation of Jared"
This Was a Big Repudiation of Jared: After the Ayers Chief-of-Staff Fiasco, Trump Is Eyeing Bannon Ally Dave Bossie
First, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump pushed Nick Ayers, who jilted Donald Trump. Then, Trump pushed Kushner on Sean Hannity to take the heatand into the doghouse.
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/jared-after-fiasco-trump-is-eyeing-bannon-ally-dave-bossie
When Donald Trump summoned John Kelly to the White House on Friday to give him, at long last, his walking papers during a meeting with Nick Ayers and Mike Pence, it appeared that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump had notched a major victory. For weeks, Kushner and Ivanka had been lobbying the president to replace Kelly with Ayers, a generational peer and ally who would increase their influence in the West Wing.
But Ayerss surprise decision to walk away from Trumps offer has blown open the chief-of-staff search and, according to sources familiar with the situation, damaged Kushners standing with the president. This was a big repudiation of Jared, a prominent Republican close to the White House said. According to a source, Trump instructed Kushner, who almost never speaks publicly, to appear on Sean Hannitys show on Monday night to be the face of the chief-of-staff debacle. Trump said, Youre going to go on there and defend me and take blame for chief of staff as punishment, a source briefed on the conversation said. (Kushners hit was spun externally as a discussion of prison reform.)
With Ayers out, Trump appears to be taking a hard look at candidates with vastly different politics and style than Kushner and Ivanka. According to two sources, Trump is scheduled to interview Citizens United president Dave Bossie at the White House on Friday. (Bossie declined to comment.) Bossie, who served as deputy campaign manager of Trumps 2016 campaign, is known as a political street fighter and is a close confidant of Corey Lewandowski and Steve Bannon. With House Democrats poised to launch investigations of Trump in January, Bossies experience in political trench warfare is viewed by Trump as a plus. Trump is all over how Bossie knows investigations, one Republican briefed on the search said.
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Gabe Sherman's latest (VF): West Wing "This Was a Big Repudiation of Jared" (Original Post)
hlthe2b
Dec 2018
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pecosbob
(7,533 posts)2. Simply accepting the job means time in the barrel...only a real idealogue would make that trade
struggle4progress
(118,236 posts)3. "Citizens United president Dave Bossie "