NYT: Trump Vented About John Kelly’s Handling of Rob Porter With Language ‘Unfit for Publication’
A new report this afternoon in the New York Times on President Trump and this seemingly unending White House purge confirms that said purge isn’t over yet.
Per the Times, more people may be gone as soon as tomorrow, with Trump considering replacing: John Kelly, H.R. McMaster, Ben Carson, and VA Sec. David Shulkin.
The report goes through the President’s frustrations at some of these individuals, and apparently he likes spitballing ideas on who he could get rid of:
Mr. Trump has a long habit of musing about staff changes that he doesn’t enact. He does his own version of poll-testing different possibilities, asking aides what they think of one another and asking outside friends and top advisers whether different people would be better in specific jobs, but he often drops the topic without acting.
However, there’s one particular item of note in here concerning the Chief of Staff.
Kelly’s mishandling of the Rob Porter scandal has faced a ton of scrutiny in the past few weeks, and the President apparently felt he botched it too.
And he vented to people using profane language:
A few weeks ago, when the scandal surrounding Rob Porter, the staff secretary, exploded into view, Mr. Trump began working the phones to old friends, telling them that he needed his former advisers back and complaining that he was surrounded by people he didn’t know. He told them that Mr. Kelly had badly botched the Porter issue (his language was saltier and unfit for publication, according to several people with knowledge of the calls).
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