Mick Mulvaney's chief of staff playbook: Dismantling Trump's guardrails
Months before Mick Mulvaney was picked as President Donald Trump's acting chief of staff, he requested a meeting with Trump to sell himself as the best man to run his chaotic White House.
Mulvaney boiled his case down to three main points. First, he reminded Trump that he'd spent the previous two years successfully managing two federal agencies, the Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with almost no dysfunction. Secondly, he said he had demonstrated fierce loyalty to the President.
Mulvaney saved what he thought was the most important point for last: he had no plans to rein Trump in, according to a person familiar with Mulvaney's ideas.
The pitch provides a window into how Mulvaney has approached the job as Trump's third chief of staff. White House aides say Mulvaney has staked out a clear strategy of avoiding friction with the President or his family.
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A senior White House official, who praised Mulvaney's leadership overall, described Mulvaney's approach to dealing with Trump as focused primarily on securing the President's affection, even if it sometimes means obscuring hard truths.
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So Mulvaney is basically a brown nosing yes man. I agree he should remove the guardrails. Let Trump drive straight into a brick wall.
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