NYT: Trump asking John Kelly for help in pushing Ivanka, Kushner out of White House

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN




By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN

Updated 11:06 AM ET, Fri March 2, 2018

Washington (CNN) - President Donald Trump is asking chief of staff John Kelly for help in pushing his daughter and son-in-law out of the White House, The New York Times reports.

The Times, citing two people familiar with Trump's views, said Trump has been frustrated with his son-in-law Kushner after his top secret security clearance was downgraded this week and a report came out that officials from four countries had discussed ways to manipulate him during their dealings on foreign policy. But Trump has told Kushner, who is a senior adviser, and his daughter Ivanka that they should remain in their roles, the Times reported.

Trump has vented at times that the couple should have never come to the White House and should leave, White House aides told the newspaper.

CNN has not independently confirmed the Times' report. A message left with the White House seeking comment Friday was not immediately returned.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/politics/trump-john-kelly-ivanka/index.html?CNNPolitics=Tw

[C_U_L8R]

1. There's a word for Trump

Chickenshit.

[cilla4progress]

2. Exactly

And we knew that

[niyad]

6. there are MANY words for that waste of skin and oxygen. most of them would ntet us

a visit from agent mikey!

[sfwriter]

14. We know he's yellow. We know he's red.

That gives us orange.

[C_U_L8R]

16. Old Trumpstain

[groundloop]

3. So 45* is asking for help pushing them out, yet tells them they should stay..... WTF?!?!?!

My head is spinning from all of 45*s flip-flopping.

He's a damned coward, afraid to take any action on his own without ensuring there's someone handy to blame in case something backfires.

[livetohike]

4. Why does he need help? Supposedly they are not paid

employees. Tell them they aren't needed and be done with it. He's such an indecisive coward.

[Dave Starsky]

7. Because Jared is grasping the door frame for dear life.

It's going to take Kelly and probably 3 or 4 big Secret Service agents to try to pry his desperate fingers away from the sides of the door as he screams and pleads.

[lagomorph777]

10. They are paid - just not by the USA.

[EleanorR]

13. We the taxpayers pay these grifters to fly all over the world nt

[RainCaster]

5. 45 is jealous that they are getting swamp creature headlines that belong to him

[Wellstone ruled]

8. So Maggie Habberman is the new

White House public relations go to .Looks like Trump is going to retreat to his old days of using the NYT as his personal self promotional tool.

[lunasun]

9. hate Kelly but he must be like wth? It's your family you appoint them, have them rep the US and then

ask me to help get them out???

[dhill926]

11. howz this...."you're fired."

cowardly piece of shit....

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Trump is Dad and Dad-in-law

The WH is his house, for the time being, so tell the kids it's time for them to leave.

My dad certainly would've had no problem telling me to get out if he needed to.

[Calista241]

15. I dont believe any of these so and so is out stories.

We’ve been hearing that Tillerson is out for at least a year now. John Kelly is leaving in 3 days!!! Sarah Sanders!!! Jared and Ivanka!!!

He just sent Ivanka to South Korea to cover up for Pence’s fiasco for Christ’s sake.

[duforsure]

17. They'll be the next ones turning on him to save themselves,

and talking to Mueller.

[rickford66]

18. Like he stands up to the NRA.

[jmowreader]

19. Trump said he likes to fire people

I’m calling BS on this one. Anyone in the White House serves at the Pleasure of the President, not the Pleasure of the Chief of Staff. If he wanted Jared and Ivanka gone, the process is very simple: tell them they can’t return to the White House.

Reality time: Jared and Ivanka are the de facto president. He can’t get rid of them because they’re running the country; Trump’s real purpose in life is to serve as an Autopen that runs on Big Macs.

[Retrograde]

20. For a guy who built a career on "you're fired"

he seems rather reluctant to do it in real life.

And it's not like anyone raised the nepotism issue before he was sworn in...

[Progressive2020]

21. Gutless Trump

What a coward. With Trump, it is always someone else's fault. He takes no responsibility for the people he hires.

Newsflash- if you hire bad actors, that means that you are an incompetent manager who is a poor judge of who to hire. Your staff's failures are a reflection on your own poor judgment in hiring these people.

Also, it is hilarious to me that Trump wants to throw his own Daughter and Son-In-Law under the bus, but does not even have the guts to do it himself. What an awful person he is.

[edits for readability]

[Gore1FL]

22. I wonder if he wants Ivanka out to protect himself or her.

I figure he'd throw Jared under the bus in a heartbeat. Ivanka, though?

[Azathoth]

23. So Trump thinks the guy he put in charge of everything "should never have come"

What a joke.