IF Scaramucci is what Trump thinks about "Draining the Swamp" then he is just replacing the Swamp with a long fall into the sewer. Scaramuci is only there with Trump to get his $90 million dollar investment in his business to turn into $180 million by selling it to the Chinese. Think about it, he is replacing tried and true Republican Loyalists with Hedge Fund investors who know nothing at all about helping the American people at all. So, instead of draining the Swamp he is filling the White House with what you and I fill the toilet with.
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14 hours ago - (CNN)President Donald Trump fired Reince Priebus as his chief of staff on Friday, a move that completes a purge of Washington insiders from Trump's inner circle and virtually ensures an even harder turn into his outsider rhetoric and approach.
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Donald Trump's DC swamp purge is really picking up speed
Story highlights
- The President's move completes a purge of Washington insiders
- Trump's attempts to merge his New York world with Washington failed
(CNN)President Donald Trump fired Reince Priebus as his chief of staff on Friday,
a move that completes a purge of Washington insiders from Trump's inner
circle and virtually ensures an even harder turn into his outsider
rhetoric and approach.
The
news, as with so much from Trump, came via Twitter just before 5 pm on
the East Coast. "I am pleased to inform you that I have just named
General/Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff," Trump tweeted.
"He is a Great American and a Great Leader. John has also done a
spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my
Administration."
It came
after Priebus had traveled to Long Island with Trump on Friday; the
President delivered a speech on the dangers posed by the MS-13 gang. It
also capped an utterly fantastical -- and terrible -- week for the president in which the chaos within his administration was on public display time and again.
The
Priebus firing proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that Trump's
attempts to merge his New York and family worlds with the staider
environment of official Washington had failed miserably -- and that he
has clearly sided with those urging him to be more himself over those
who had hoped to bend him somewhat to the ways of the nation's capital.
The
ouster of Priebus came a week after White House press secretary Sean
Spicer, a Priebus ally, resigned following Trump's decision to appoint
Anthony Scaramucci, a New York hedge fund manager and personal friend of
the President, to the job of communications director.
The
intervening week was chaos -- plain and simple. Trumps' already-manic
tweeting reached new highs (or lows depending on your view) as he
repeatedly went after his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, for
recusing himself from the Russia investigation. Scaramucci immediately
put himself in the center of this three-ring circus too -- blasting Priebus in graphic terms in an interview with the New Yorker's Ryan Lizza.
(Scaramucci also bragged to Lizza about his firing of Michael Short, a
Washington hand serving in the White House press shop, and insisted he
was conducting a top-to-bottom staff review -- the sort of thing a chief
of staff typically does.)
Trump
was silent on Scaramucci's public flaying of Priebus -- a sort of tacit
acknowledgment that the Mooch (as he refers to himself) was acting on
the boss's orders. And, everywhere you looked were signs that Priebus'
days were numbered -- a man without allies faced with a President with
an itchy firing finger.
Senate
Republicans' surprising failure to pass a piece of health care
legislation in the early hours of Friday morning may well have sealed
Priebus' fate as he was actively involved in trying to win the votes to
get the bill through the Senate and to a conference committee.
Even
if the health care failure was the final spark, it's clear that Trump
has been souring on Priebus for some time -- and had been slowly but
surely purging the former Republican National Committee chairman's
allies from the White House.
When
Priebus was originally hired as chief of staff, the move was regarded as
an attempted olive branch to the Washington Republican establishment
with whom Trump had openly warred for much of the campaign. Priebus was
not only a known commodity in D.C. circles because of his time at the
RNC but also a close, personal friend of House Speaker Paul Ryan -- a
man considered essential to Trump's chances of enacting his agenda in
Washington.
Priebus successfully
recruited Spicer and Katie Walsh, two of his deputies at the RNC, into
the White House -- a further sign, many assumed, that Trump would
balance the political outsiders and family members who ran his campaign
with some more known commodities in Washington.
Six
months later, all of that is out the door with Priebus' firing
functioning as the final nail in the coffin. The only Washington insider
remaining in Trump's inner circle is Kellyanne Conway, a
pollster-turned-strategist with close ties to Vice President Mike Pence.
Aside from Conway, the Trump inner circle is composed of family (Ivanka
Trump and Jared Kushner) and political outsiders (Steve Bannon and
Scaramucci). Kelly's appointment as chief of staff is reflective of
Trump's long-running fascination with military men in his upper ranks.
What
the staff moves reflect is Trump's belief, despite constant public
proclamations to the contrary, that his first six months in office have
been devoid of accomplishments -- a lack of successes reflected in poll
numbers that are at or below historical lows for a president in his
first half-year in office.
What's
clear is that what Trump is doing isn't working. And what's equally
clear is that Trump believes the reason for that is the poor advice he
has received from his veteran Washington hands.
And so, Kelly is in, Priebus is out. Scaramucci is in, Spicer is out. New York -- and Trump's family -- is ascendant.
What does that mean for the direction Trump will take in the next six months?
"I think it is very important for us to let him express his personality," Scaramucci said in his first press conference 7 days ago, adding that his goal would be to free Trump to "express his full identity."
In short: Trump is going to be allowed to be Trump.
That,
of course, is in keeping with what the President himself wants. He is
convinced (as most presidents are) that he is the best communicator,
strategist, pollster and everything else for himself. He believes that
he is best politically when he is allowed to follow his gut instincts
wherever they may lead.
The
dismissal of Priebus removes the last major impediment to letting Trump
follow those instincts at all times. While it's hard to imagine how
Trump could be "more Trumpian" than he has been in the first six months
in the White House, you can bet that is exactly what he plans to be
going forward.
Trump is free to be Trump. Get ready.
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