TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Forty percent of the staff members who were working a year ago in U.S. President Donald Trump’s White House have since left for other jobs, a new report shows, providing a snapshot of the chaos among Trump’s closest subordinates. At all levels of seniority and pay levels, Trump staff churn has exceeded that of the executive office of former President Barack Obama, with a noticeably larger turnover among top aides, according to an annual report on the White House payroll released late on Friday and reviewed by Reuters. In the top tier of staff, Trump’s White House has so far had the highest turnover of any modern administration, said Martha Kumar, a Towson University political scientist emeritus. That hurts Trump’s ability to advance his policies in coordination with outside allies, said Kumar, director of the White House Transition Project, who has kept track of the turnover since the Reagan administration…Fifty-six percent of the highest-ranking people in Trump’s White House named in last year’s payroll report have since left or have announced they will soon leave, including chief of staff Reince Priebus, top economic adviser Gary Cohn, deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn and spokesman Sean Spicer.”
–Roberta Rampton, “From top to bottom, Trump’s White House churns through staff: report,” Reuters, July 2, 2018 10:17 am