NYT First Breaking News of Friday: Trump sees Kushner/Ivanka as Liability - wants them to leave

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The whole story is fascinating and points to a White House escalating in chaos because Porter is gone but this part is going to trigger a whole new level of finger pointing leaks in the play room that is now called the WH:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/us/politics/trump-chaos-oval-office.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top-stories

WASHINGTON — For 13 months in the Oval Office, and in an unorthodox business career before that, Donald J. Trump has thrived on chaos, using it as an organizing principle and even a management tool. Now the costs of that chaos are becoming starkly clear in the demoralized staff and policy disarray of a wayward White House.

The dysfunction was on vivid display on Thursday in the president’s introduction of tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. The previous day, Mr. Trump’s chief economic adviser, Gary D. Cohn, warned the chief of staff, John F. Kelly, that he might resign if the president went ahead with the plan, according to people briefed on the discussion. Mr. Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs president, had lobbied fiercely against the measures.

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Yet Mr. Trump is also frustrated with Mr. Kushner, whom he now views as a liability because of his legal entanglements, the investigations of the Kushner family’s real estate company and the publicity over having his security clearance downgraded, according to two people familiar with his views. In private conversations, the president vacillates between sounding regretful that Mr. Kushner is taking arrows and annoyed that he is another problem to deal with.

Privately, some aides have expressed frustration that Mr. Kushner and his wife, the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump, have remained at the White House, despite Mr. Trump at times saying they never should have come to the White House and should leave. Yet aides also noted that Mr. Trump has told the couple that they should keep serving in their roles, even as he has privately asked Mr. Kelly for his help in moving them out.

To some staff members, the chaos feels reminiscent of the earliest days of the Trump administration. Some argue Mr. Kelly should have carried out a larger staff shake-up when he came in. That has allowed several people to stagnate, particularly in policy roles, one adviser said.

Can't make it up, wouldn't believe it if I wasn't watching it in real time.

This is how Friday's now start, just wait for the tweets, leaks, and bombastic charges from the bombastic Scaramucci (who seems to be getting phone calls from the WH to launch new attacks on Kelly) for the next 18 hours.

So much winning I wonder how much the Dow will lose today? In three days its lost almost 1000 points.

Idiocy on public display for the whole world to see.