Trump's friend on Priebus: 'There's a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff'

[BigBearJohn]

CNN)One of Donald Trump's friends, after recently spending time with the President, cast doubt Sunday on White House chief of staff Reince Priebus' ability to do his job.

The friend then said later in the day that he spoke to Priebus and has an "open mind."

Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax Media, told CNN's Brian Stelter on "Reliable Sources" he thinks "there's a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff."

"I think Reince Priebus, good guy, well-intentioned, but he clearly doesn't know how the federal agencies work," said Ruddy. "He doesn't have a real good system. He doesn't know how the communications flow."

It was a strikingly frank public assessment of one of Trump's top staffers by a close friend, but it's unclear whether Trump shares it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/12/politics/trump-christopher-ruddy-reince-priebus-cnntv/index.html

[madokie]

1. The premise that dRumpf has friends

is way more that I can process, sorry

SAD

[muriel_volestrangler]

2. Newsmax is roughly the same as Breitbart

Right wing fake news. He is just a rich deplorable.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Friends....flatterers.....same difference......

[Dorian Gray]

5. Ha

and there is this.

[Dorian Gray]

4. Trump

is so going to fire someone on his staff as a scapegoat for all the negative attention.

While I thought it might be Spicer (which is ridiculous bc he's just doing what DT tells him to do), I think they're testing the waters by bad-mouthing Priebus via surrogate. This way DT can maintain distance from the insult, but "put Priebus on notice."

He's testing the waters to see how the party will react.

It's a win to his rust belt supporters. By firing Priebus as COS, he is draining the swamp. But he needs to know that he can still get through his (fucking bonkers crazy assed non-thought through) agenda.

So test the waters. Put words out there. See what sticks. Get people ready.

then.....

YOU'RE FIRED!

(I think Party Republicans will revolt, though.)

[Bucky]

6. oh, Republicans are always trying to knife each other in the back

A philosophy based on total competition all the time is going to lead to nasty feuds within the office. It is in their nature to press leak all over each other