{"id":70685,"date":"2017-04-07T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70685"},"modified":"2017-04-07T14:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T18:14:50","slug":"newsflash-trumps-chief-of-staff-being-replaced-steve-bannon-ready-to-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=70685","title":{"rendered":"NEWSFLASH: Trump&#8217;s Chief of Staff being replaced, Steve Bannon ready to exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"ra-headline\">White House mulling replacements for Reince Priebus, preparing for Steve Bannon exit: report<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>by Terence Cullen<br \/>\nNYDailyNews.com<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has been mulling who could potentially replace Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, including House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven weeks into his term, President Trump is considering replacements for Priebus \u2014 the former Republican National Committee chairman \u2014 as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axios.com\/exclusive-trump-eyes-new-chief-of-staff-house-leader-on-short-list-2349015716.html\" target=\"_blank\">preparing for chief strategist Steve Bannon\u2019s departure<\/a>, according to Axios.<\/p>\n<p>Along with McCarthy \u2014 a Trump ally \u2014 the White House is considering businessman Wayne Berman, political consultant David Urban and Trump\u2019s economic adviser, Gary Cohn, Axios reported, cited aides and advisers.<\/p>\n<p>A key Trump aide told the news website that while the President was considering a White House shakeup, nothing was set in stone.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ra-related\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/gop-mega-donor-convince-bannon-not-resign-report-article-1.3023770\">GOP mega-donor had to convince Bannon not to resign: report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things are happening, but it&#8217;s very unclear the president&#8217;s willing to pull that trigger,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.axios.com\/exclusive-trump-eyes-new-chief-of-staff-house-leader-on-short-list-2349015716.html\" target=\"_blank\">the aide said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_70687\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/usa-aipac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70687\" class=\"wp-image-70687\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/usa-aipac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/usa-aipac.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/usa-aipac-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/usa-aipac-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/usa-aipac-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-70687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is reportedly in the running. (PETE MAROVICH\/EPA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>News of the potential replacement comes as reports of infighting within the White House emerge.<\/p>\n<p>Bannon and Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner have reportedly traded barbs over policy matters.<\/p>\n<p>The White House strategist was booted from the President\u2019s National Security Council this week, and allegedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/gop-mega-donor-convince-bannon-not-resign-report-article-1.3023770\" target=\"_blank\">considered leaving his strategist post<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/white-house-mulling-replacements-reince-priebus-article-1.3029266\">http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/white-house-mulling-replacements-reince-priebus-article-1.3029266<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House mulling replacements for Reince Priebus, preparing for Steve Bannon exit: report<\/p>\n","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-70685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70685","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=70685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}