STATE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Another desk is being vacated in the ever-churning White House communications department. Cliff Sims, a special assistant to the president who oversees White House message strategy, is expected to take a position at the State Department as a senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the coming weeks…Sims was officially offered the post on Monday and is expected to begin as soon as possible, the source said. The White House press office did not respond to a request for comment on the personnel change…A Trump campaign veteran, Sims founded the conservative Alabama political blog Yellowhammer News before joining the Trump train. But for more than a year, he has clashed with colleagues who joined the White House from positions at the Republican National Committee, making enemies with the more ‘establishment’ staffers in Trump’s factionalized White House.”
-Annie Karni, Nancy Cook and Matthew Nussbaum, “Trump campaign veteran leaving White House communications office,” Politico, May 8, 2018 2:05 pm