{"id":65897,"date":"2017-02-12T18:22:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65897"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:26:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T22:26:14","slug":"is-priebus-out-trump-friend-slams-chief-of-staff-as-weak-incompetent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65897","title":{"rendered":"Is Priebus Out? Trump Friend Slams Chief Of Staff As &#8220;Weak, Incompetent&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Just a day after Chris Ruddy, Newsmax Media CEO, joined President Trump for a drink <em>(Trump had a diet Coke, Ruddy had a scotch)<\/em>, the long-time friend appeared Sunday on CNN&#8217;s Reliable Sources and <strong>unprompted, launched into an attack on the President&#8217;s chief of staff, Reince Priebus, describing him as weak and incompetent<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Drinks two days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> finished dinner w. PM Abe, asked me to join him for drink, him diet Coke, me Macallan&#39;s. Talked for half hour.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christopher Ruddy (@ChrisRuddyNMX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisRuddyNMX\/status\/830285138852454400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And now Chris Ruddy told CNN, Trump&#8217;s not the problem, Priebus is&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;The White House is showing not the amount of order that we need to see. <strong>I think there&#8217;s a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff. I think Reince Priebus, good guy, well intentioned, but he clearly doesn&#8217;t know how the federal agencies work.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">He doesn&#8217;t have a really good system. He doesn&#8217;t know how the communications flow &#8230; <strong>the President&#8217;s not getting the back-up he needs in the operation of the White House and sometimes the pushback he needs to have with a stronger &#8230; White House chief of staff.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Is Priebus on the out? And will Steve Bannon now become de facto Chief of Staff?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/02\/10\/20170212_pribus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/02\/10\/20170212_pribus_0.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A position many believed he should have been in from the start&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The selection of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reince?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@reince<\/a> for COS in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> WH would cause a rebellion in Trump&#39;s base. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RyansBoy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RyansBoy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RogerJStoneJr\/status\/797388379071672320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And his public stance seems popular&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After Ruddy hit Reince on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@brianstelter<\/a>&#39;s show, he told me he got text messages from 3 sitting Cabinet secretaries praising his performance.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipRucker\/status\/830834622200164353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-12\/priebus-out-trump-friend-slams-chief-staff-weak-incompetent\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-02-12\/priebus-out-trump-friend-slams-chief-staff-weak-incompetent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}