2/15/2018

REINCE PRIEBUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Reports of chaos and disorganization inside the White House through the first months of President Donald Trump’s administration are accurate, former chief of staff Reince Priebus said. In fact, Priebus said, those reports understated the truth of the Trump administration’s beginnings. ‘Take everything you’ve heard and multiply it by 50,’ […]

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7/28/2017

TRUMP PEOPLE/JOHN KELLY/REINCE PRIEBUS: “Reince Priebus, the establishment Republican-turned-loyalist to President Trump who served as his White House chief of staff for the last six months, was pushed out on Friday in the latest convulsion in a chaos-wracked West Wing to which he had repeatedly failed to bring some semblance of order. Convinced that Mr. […]

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7/28/2017

TRUMP PEOPLE/ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/REINCE PRIEBUS: “White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus may have little left of his job but his title. In the swirl of Shakespearean intrigue that surrounds Donald Trump’s White House, Priebus’ fortunes have long been a source of speculation, given his limited role, colorful band of rivals and the president’s public slights. […]

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7/27/2017

LEAKS/TRUMP PEOPLE/ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI/REINCE PRIEBUS: “The internal rivalries of the White House spilled out into stark public view on Thursday [7-27-17] morning as President Trump’s new communications director called out his chief of staff on live television, suggesting that he may be a leaker — all over a leak that was not actually a leak. Anthony […]

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6/19/2017

MEDIA/REINCE PREIBUS/SEAN SPICER: “White House press secretary Sean Spicer is leading a search for his own replacement at the briefing room podium as part of a larger plan to shake up the White House communications operations, according to two people with knowledge of the effort. Last week, Spicer and White House chief of staff Reince […]

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5/22/2017

TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS/STEVE BANNON: “White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steven Bannon returned to Washington after President Donald Trump wrapped up his visit to Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his foreign trip. The decision for Priebus to return to the US was pre-planned, not spur-of-the-moment, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee […]

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5/15/2017

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Donald Trump. Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers. One, supposedly from […]

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5/8/2017

BUDGET/TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “White House chief of staff Reince Priebus defended a draft proposal to slash funds for the White House office responsible for fighting the opioid epidemic on Sunday [5-7-17], saying a lot of what the office does duplicates other government programs. Cautioning that ‘nothing is final in this debate and discussion in regard […]

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3/26/2017

INTELLIGENCE/OBAMA/WIRETAPPING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “Fox News anchor Chris Wallace pressed White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Sunday over President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. In an interview on ‘Fox News Sunday,’ Wallace asked Priebus whether Trump accepted the conclusion from law […]

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2/20/2017

TRUMP PEOPLE/REINCE PRIEBUS: “White House chief of staff Reince Priebus said Sunday there was no collusion between anyone involved in President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russian officials. Priebus, in an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, also offered the closest thing to an official timeline for former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s firing, who […]

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