BOOM! Trump names Reince Priebus his Chief of Staff!!!

by SooperMexican

Oh boy, el Trumpo has named his chief of staff and it ain’t gonna make Roger Stone happy:

Wow, that just stinks of a political favor. And Roger Stone had warned him against doing it:

So did the “Tea Party Patriots”:

President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t yet publicly named a chief of staff, but already, a major tea party group is warning him against naming one of his reported top choices.

The Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund warned against a “Washington insider” to run Trump’s White House, specifically naming Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who is said to be one of Trump’s top two choices.

Jenny Beth Martin, the co-founder of TPPCF, told CNN in a statement that the group wants Trump to “drain the swamp.”

AND more from the Washington Examiner:

“One thing that puzzled activists on the ground, was the absence of the RNC on the ground in get-out-the-vote efforts,” the GOP organizer told the Examiner Saturday night. “They were nowhere to be seen and we knocked on 200,000 doors and I never ran into them.”

“It was disconcerting that the party was seemingly M.I.A. … If the chief of staff is the face of the establishment, Donald Trump loses all credibility with all those who worked to elect him.”

Another knowledgeable Trump supporter told the Examiner that Priebus “threw his body in front of the Trump nomination every step of the way.”

“It is stunning that he is being considered for this position.”

The same source argued that appointing Priebus would guarantee instant division within the top leadership positions in the Trump White House that the Washington “liberal media elite” would “gleefully” write about day after day.

The conservatives rallying against Priebus blame him for trying to pin Trump down to a GOP loyalty pledge during the primary season in 2015, a promise to support whichever candidate won the Republican presidential primary and not run as an independent.

Hmmmm…. I wonder how this will go over with his base?

UPDATE:

Here’s the official statement – but Bannon has an equal position?

Well that’s weird.


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