Tag Archives: Reince Priebus

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports: Wisconsin lawmakers will spend hundreds of thousands to review the presidential election and will soon issue subpoenas as part of their effort, according to Reince Priebus, the former head of the state and national arms of the Republican Party. Priebus, the first chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, made the comments on former Trump …

The Hill reports: Former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus is considering a run for governor of Wisconsin in 2022. A source familiar with Priebus’s thinking confirmed to The Hill on Friday that Priebus had begun conversations with top Wisconsin Republicans about the prospects of challenging Gov. Tony Evers (D) next year. Priebus got his start in GOP politics …

Salon reports: President Trump has rehired his former chief of staff Reince Priebus and former press secretary Sean Spicer almost three years after both men unceremoniously departed the White House. Priebus and Spicer will each join the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships, according to a White House announcement. As a part of the commission, the pair will interview and …

The Insider reports: When Reince Priebus was the White House chief of staff, President Donald Trump repeatedly asked him whether badgers, the state animal of Priebus’ home state of Wisconsin, are “mean to people,” how they “work,” and how aggressive they can get. That’s according to “Sinking in the Swamp: How Trump’s Minions and Misfits Poisoned Washington,” a new book …

Newsweek reports: During an appearance on Fox News, former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus accused MSNBC host Rachel Maddow of being involved in a conspiracy with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Adam Schiff to hold back the impeachment articles for President Donald Trump. The comment that Priebus highlighted was that Maddow said she’d been working on her …

The Washington Post reports: We now have a particularly ugly preview of what this defense may look like, as Trump’s Senate trial gets underway. On Sean Hannity’s Thursday night show, former Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus said: “Sometimes the best defense is the ‘so what’ defense. If everything the Democrats said is true, it’s still not impeachable. If everything …

Fox News reports: Former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus frequently watches his former colleague, Sean Spicer, on “Dancing with the Stars” — and told Fox News that the latter’s success was due to his experience in President Trump’s administration. “People are voting for him so all these liberals that are all up in arms over the fact that …

The Washington Post reports: Reince Priebus, President Trump’s former chief of staff, has officially joined the Navy. At a commissioning ceremony Monday morning, Vice President Pence swore in Priebus as an ensign, an entry-level officer. Priebus and his family also met with Trump at the White House after the ceremony. Priebus’s commissioning follows a lengthy process in which former defense …

ABC News reports: There’s a new chief of staff in town. Retired Gen. John Kelly was sworn in today as President Trump’s most senior staffer in the White House. Trump replaced Reince Priebus with Kelly last Friday. Kelly had left his post as secretary of homeland security to assume his new White House role. “He will do a spectacular job, …

Mediaite reports: Arthur Schwartz, a friend of Anthony Scaramucci who has been referred to as his publicist, warned Reince Priebus that he would “start dropping oppo” on the former White House chief of staff, adding “Mistress much?” in a Sunday morning tweet. The tweets have since been deleted, but of course, screenshots live on forever. The tweet was in response …

Last night Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway took to Fox News to defend the shitcanning of Reince Priebus, saying that the relentless chaos in the White House is to Trump’s credit, because he’s an “unconventional president.” More from Raw Story: “The fact is, that every place of work, I believe has to understand the rules, the structure, the protocol, the pecking …

Talking Points Memo reports: The former White House chief of staff insisted in a Friday night interview that his ouster by President Donald Trump “is actually a good thing.” “I’m feeling good about the fact that he’s making a change that makes him comfortable with moving forward,” Reince Priebus told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in what has become a routine …

Reince Priebus just gave his first post-shitcanning interview to CNN, which some Twitter wags consider an implicit jab at Trump. Wolf Blitzer asked Priebus point-blank about the Mooch’s accusation of being the White House leaker, which Priebus called “ridiculous.” Mediaite reports: Priebus told Blitzer that he simply wasn’t going to comment on Scaramucci calling him a “f*cking paranoid schizophrenic” during …

Mooch gets his scalp! CNBC reports: President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted that John Kelly would take over as White House chief of staff, replacing Reince Priebus. Priebus, 45, became a target of Trump’s ire shortly into his term as White House chief of staff. Trump has consistently applied pressure on Priebus and reportedly given him various deadlines to get …

New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza says hothead White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called him to scream about a leaked report that he would be dining with Trump and Sean Hannity. And then, holy cow. An excerpt: I asked him why it was so important for the dinner to be kept a secret. Surely, I said, it would become public …

The Washington Examiner reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci is “full of himself” and is acting “more pugnacious than effective.” “I think Scaramucci is full of himself,” Gingrich said Thursday in a radio interview with Laura Ingraham. “I think he got down here from New York and he is all excited. Frankly, he …

White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci called into CNN this morning to essentially accuse Reince Priebus of being the leaker. The Hill reports: White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Thursday said if chief of staff Reince Priebus wants to explain he isn’t a leaker, he can do that. During an interview on CNN’s “New Day,” Scaramucci said he doesn’t …

The Washingtonian reports: Good news for the cynics of the world. You’ve always said that nothing comes free. Well, this Tuesday at Z-Burger, that’s true. The Tenleytown location of the burger chain will offer free “nothing burgers” from 11 AM to 2 PM on July 18. The promotion was inspired by talk of Donald Trump, Jr.‘s email scandal and whether …

Politico reports: Kellyanne Conway was overheard Thursday night talking about her West Wing co-workers to fellow revelers at a party. Conway was having an off-the-record conversation with a group of reporters and other attendees at the British Embassy at their election-night watch party. She said President Donald Trump told her to “go out there and say ‘Jim Comey is going …

Politico reports: Goodbye Winter White House. Hello Desert White House. President Donald Trump is scheduled to depart Friday on an 11-day, five-country tour that comes at a moment of major turmoil in his administration – and, as usual, he’ll be joined by a large traveling band of his top aides, who often stick close to the president for fear of …