White House ‘in a state of chaos’ as Trump’s chief departs

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Well this is a White House that, while President Trump wants to say is functioning very smoothly, is actually at the scene of chaos and a lot of the times you have this continuing revolving door that spilling of people continuously leaving the White House. And then you have this large cloud of the Russia investigation the president is someone who is focused on it. He's tweeting about it daily. He is frustrated with the fact that these people that he thought were loyal to him. Now speaking to a special counsel you think of Michael Cohen, you think of the executive editor of The National Enquirer, and other people that were close friends of the president who are now had interviews with the special counsel, who in a lot of ways save their own necks Michael Coleman was focused on making sure that he wasn't going to go to jail for a long period of time. And as a result the president is now I think worried about what else could be coming out of that out of the special counsel investigation of Robert Mueller's indictment.

TooShiftyForYou on December 8th, 2018 at 23:26 UTC »

The two men agreed Kelly would announce the resignation himself on Monday but Trump just went ahead and announced today anyway, according to the Washington Post.

TrillboBaggins on December 8th, 2018 at 23:10 UTC »

I think we're going to start heading into days where the last two years are going to seem almost quiet compared to what might be coming.

Pls no

a_fuller on December 8th, 2018 at 23:00 UTC »

Bernstein: Trump presidency a national emergency

John Kelly called trump an "idiot," Mattis said trump "has understanding of a sixth-grader." Woodward reveals 'crazytown' inside the White House. Trump aides worried he was a danger to national security.

What we have seen so far is an abdication of responsibility by Republicans of the Congress of the United States such as we have never seen. In Watergate the system worked because Republicans decided we cannot have a president who is a criminal or a danger to the presidency of the United States. This situation is far more dangerous.

Here we see and hear his aides by name, day by day saying he is unhinged, he's a rageaholic, he is a danger to our national security. General Kelly, in the interest of the country, needs to resign with a statement that says 'the presidency can no longer be entrusted to this man. We now have a picture of what we all have been dealing with here. I will be happy to appear before committees of Congress and tell them what I have seen about this president* and whether or not he is competent and able to lead.'