Reince Priebus Pushed Out After Rocky Tenure as Trump Chief of Staff<br />By PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMANJULY 28, 2017<br />WASHINGTON — Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff who failed to impose order on a chaos-wracked West Wing, was pushed out on Friday after a stormy six-month tenure,<br />and President Trump replaced him with John F. Kelly, the secretary of homeland security and retired four-star Marine general.<br />Mr. Priebus represented a more conventional breed of senior White House figure, chosen by the president despite a career defined by<br />the calculations of traditional Republican Party politics, which Mr. Trump regards as part of “the swamp” he was elected to drain.<br />John Kelly is one of our great stars.”<br />But some advisers to Mr. Trump were opposed to the choice, arguing that Mr. Kelly did not have the political background for the job.<br />“I want to congratulate John Kelly, who has done an incredible job of secretary of homeland security,” the president said.<br />Mr. Scaramucci made clear when he was hired that he did not report to Mr. Priebus but directly to the president and by Wednesday night was publicly suggesting<br />that the chief of staff was a leaker and even threatened to seek an F. B.I.<br />“The president needs someone who understands the Trump constituency as his chief of staff, someone who has both administrative skills<br />and political savvy,” Roger Stone, Mr. Trump’s off-and-on adviser, said, anticipating Mr. Kelly’s selection before the announcement was made.<br />Always seeming to be on the edge of ouster, Mr. Priebus saw his fate finally sealed a week ago when Mr.<br />Trump hired Mr. Scaramucci, an edgy Wall Street financier, over the chief of staff’s objections.
