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Having the kid and kid in law across creates 'noise'!! ha ha.
Kelly struggling to make sense of Jareds West Wing role
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/29/jared-ivanka-trump-white-house-role-john-kelly-243321
Trump has also questioned whether having his family members in the West Wing is creating too much noise.
By ANNIE KARNI and JOSH DAWSEY
09/29/2017 06:51 PM EDT
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The presidents son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Kelly learned, had been quietly back-channeling with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). Kushner, Democratic Hill aides confirmed, had discussed with the two senators a potential deal to protect Dreamers from deportation.
Kelly, according to three sources familiar with the exchange, was livid, not at the content of the discussions he has said he personally supports DACA but that they were going on without his knowledge. He called senior White House officials and demanded a meeting with Trump to deliver something of an ultimatum: If Kushner was going to freelance on DHS issues, the president would have to choose between his son-in-law and the four-star general serving in his Cabinet.
A White House official disputed this account, noting that Kelly was not upset he simply wanted to be briefed on what the administration's strategy was.
Kelly cooled off after speaking to then-chief of staff Reince Priebus and to Kushner directly, according to the sources familiar with the conversation. He ultimately never raised the issue directly with the president, or threatened him with any ultimatum.
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Now, as Kelly instills a formal organizational chart on top of Trumps formerly chaotic West Wing, he is still navigating the X-factor of Kushner and Ivanka Trumps inchoate roles as family members-turned-staffers.
Its not just Kelly who is uncertain of how to make the arrangement work. In recent months, according to multiple administration officials, the president has also been casually surveying people close to him about whether having his family members in the government is creating too much noise.
Baby, youre getting killed, this is a bad deal, Trump has told Ivanka Trump, in front of other staffers, after soaking in the criticisms of the role his daughter is playing....................
MattP
(3,304 posts)The way he is so gung ho against immigrants
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)outweigh 'serving at the pleasure of the president?'
Whatever that point is, we need to find it for the entire family, daddy included.
JI7
(89,251 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Ummm...adds to the already weirdness of their relationship.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)East peace, a White House aide said."
We are sooo screwed.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)after appointing people to proper jobs in it. If only there were a way that the people of the country could choose who to give that important power to. I'm sure they could be trusted not to hand it to a narcissistic bigot with no experience of running a major team for a common good, as oppose to winging it with a bunch of accountants and lawyers whose job it is to keep one step ahead of the law that is following your criminal associates from the city, country, and around the world.
Kaleva
(36,307 posts)Thinking of them as stealth liberals who have too much influence on Trump himself.
HAB911
(8,904 posts)and get it in the news more