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

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6. NYMag: "President Trump May Be Secretly Undermining Jared and Ivanka, Too"

I checked NYMag because that's the Trump/Kushner home town, and this and similar journals can be counted on to cover family doings. This article is channeling DC speculation, though.

President Trump May Be Secretly Undermining Jared and Ivanka, Too

...He has been asking others, “Why is John Kelly doing this?”

The answer might be more terrible than Kushner imagined. The New York Times reported on Thursday that President Trump himself asked Chief of Staff John Kelly to help push his daughter Ivanka and her husband out of the White House — though as with most political matters, it doesn’t seem like Trump really knows what he wants. In private conversations he’s said to veer between “sounding regretful that Mr. Kushner is taking arrows and annoyed that he is another problem to deal with.” In general, he’s sending mixed messages on whether he actually wants his daughter and son-in-law on his team:

While the idea that the president himself may be secretly plotting to oust his daughter and son-in-law from the White House is quite a juicy plot twist, it’s also one of Trump’s more astute staffing decisions. Not the part where he’s incapable of firing them himself, of course, but his recognition that Jared and Ivanka are massive liabilities who contribute very little to the success of his administration.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-may-be-secretly-undermining-jared-and-ivanka-too.html