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« Reply #25 on: August 16, 2017, 03:20:03 pm »

Yes....good to see him condemn violence...great leadership eh sonny🙄
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« Reply #26 on: August 16, 2017, 05:48:23 pm »


from the Los Angeles Times....

EDITORIAL: Trump doubles down on his irresponsible,
inexcusable comments about Charlottesville


“The people who carried the torches through Charlottesville and
chanted Nazi slogans were commemorating a genocidal ideology”.


By the LOS ANGELES TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD | 4:15PM PDT - Tuesday, August 15, 2017

President Donald J. Trump speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on August 15th. — Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press.
President Donald J. Trump speaks to the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City on August 15th.
 — Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press.


IT IS absolutely mind-boggling that President Trump, at a bizarre news conference on Tuesday, doubled down on his inexcusable, irresponsible and widely criticized efforts to create a moral equivalency between the behavior of the left and the right in Charlottesville over the weekend. Can it really be true that he doesn't see much difference between Nazis and white supremacists, on the one hand, and their opponents?

Certainly, anyone on the left or the right or anywhere else on the political spectrum who initiated violence at Saturday's march deserves to be denounced. If the “antifa” counterprotesters threw the first punches, they were wrong to do so (although that is hardly the same as ramming a car into a crowd).

But Trump — again — missed the bigger point on Tuesday, choosing once more to engage in a sort of faux evenhandedness by reiterating his claim that the blame falls “on both sides” and that the violence by the alt-right was matched by that of what he dubbed the “alt-left”. In reality, the core problem in Charlottesville was the underlying hate-filled attitudes of the mob carrying Confederate battle flags and shouting anti-Semitic and racist slogans.

Trump needs to understand that racial hatred and intolerance among some of his followers is the enduring problem here. The rally at the center of the skirmishes was called “Unite the Right”, and was intended to defend a statue of Robert E. Lee that the city of Charlottesville plans to remove, recognizing that it is a memorial to reprehensible beliefs and to the slavery system that has been rightly described as the nation's original sin. It is not a chapter of America history to be celebrated or glorified.

At his news conference, Trump made a glib and utterly unpersuasive argument that tearing down a statue of Lee would put the U.S. on a slippery slope to … something. “This week it is Robert E. Lee, and this week Stonewall Jackson,” Trump said. “Is it George Washington next? You have to ask yourself, where does it stop?”

What a ridiculous statement. Can the president really not distinguish between Washington and Lee? Washington was a slaveholder, to be sure, but that's not what statues of him celebrate; they recognize him as the nation's first president, a hero of the Revolutionary War. Lee, by contrast, left the U.S. Army to lead a rebel force that sought to dismantle the nation in a misguided and unsuccessful attempt to defend the slave system.

The racism displayed by some of Trump's followers, and by the defenders of memorials to a romanticized past, is not an issue to be viewed through the usual left-right political prism. It should be viewed through the lens of history. The people who carried the torches through Charlottesville and chanted Nazi slogans were commemorating a genocidal ideology. White supremacists reflect the absolute worst part of our the nation's history, as well as the country's ongoing inability to bridge in a meaningful and sustainable way the gaps between the races.

The president has been handed several opportunities in the last few days to take a decisive stand against bigotry and hatred, and he has repeatedly declined to do so. He came close on Monday, two days too late, when he read a script denouncing racism that was clearly prepared by staffers putting words in his mouth. But he larded his comments up with self-congratulations and irrelevancies before finally denouncing the far right. And now he has retreated to his original argument that both sides share the blame.

We need as a nation to find a better way through this, and a better way to counter the soul-sickening ideas and beliefs represented by the neo-Nazis and racists who have floated on Trump's tailwind to the main stage of American political discourse.

Unfortunately, we may not receive help from the White House. The Trump we saw and heard on Saturday and Tuesday — ignorant, combative, intemperate — is the president we elected.


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 • Read the complete transcript of President Trump's remarks at Trump Tower on Charlottesville


http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ol-trump-charlottesville-racism-20170815-story.html
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« Reply #27 on: August 16, 2017, 07:50:37 pm »

....yes...very good that the POTUS condemnes violence...as we all should😜
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« Reply #28 on: August 16, 2017, 08:02:07 pm »


from The Washington Post....

EDITORIAL: The nation can only weep

In his remarks on Tuesday, the president showed his true feelings
and deepened the nation's wounds after Charlottesville.


By EDITORIAL BOARD | 7:17PM EDT - Tuesday, August 15, 2017

President Donald J. Trump speaks to reporters. — Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
President Donald J. Trump speaks to reporters. — Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.

TUESDAY was a great day for David Duke and racists everywhere. The president of the United States all but declared that he has their backs.

When a white supremacist stands accused of running his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19, Americans of goodwill mourn and demand justice. When this is done in the context of a rally where swastikas are borne and racist and anti-Semitic epithets hurled, the only morally justifiable reaction is disgust. When the nation's leader does not understand this, the nation can only weep.

On Saturday, after the murder of an innocent protester in Charlottesville followed marches that included armed men and Nazi salutes, President Trump's instinct was to blame both sides. Widespread criticism followed, including the resignations of business leaders from a White House advisory council and condemnation from political leaders of both parties. On Monday, Mr. Trump read a prepared statement condemning white supremacists and racism, delivering it in a manner suggesting he neither wrote nor endorsed the words. On Tuesday, he removed any doubt: His initial reaction, putting Nazis and those protesting them on equal moral footing, is how he really feels.

“I think there's blame on both sides. You look at — you look at both sides,” Mr. Trump said to reporters in Trump Tower, adding that there were “very fine people, on both sides”. We've all seen the videotape: One side was composed of Nazis, Klansmen and other avowed racists chanting “Jews will not replace us”. The other side was objecting to their racism.

Yes, there are good and moral Americans who oppose the removal of statues of Confederate generals. Yes, there are reasonable Americans who fear that slaveholding Founding Fathers will be the next target. Notwithstanding Mr. Trump's comments on Tuesday, we don't find it difficult to distinguish between a monument to George Washington, say, and statues to Confederate generals that were erected in the 20th century with the goal of maintaining white supremacy.

There may be a time to debate such questions — but not, as any national leader with a sense of decency would understand, now. Not in a time of mourning, with the wounds so fresh. Not when Mr. Trump has not even bothered to call the family of Heather Heyer, the young woman mowed down on Saturday. Not when Americans are looking for a clear and unequivocal condemnation of the hatred that brought those 700 marchers to Charlottesville.

That car in Charlottesville did not kill or wound just the 20 bodies it struck. It damaged the nation. Mr. Trump not only failed to help the country heal; he made the wound wider and deeper.


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Related to this topic:

 • VIDEO: Trump bashes ‘alt-left’, again saying two sides to blame in Charlottesville

 • What did you expect from Trump? Trump is on the side of white nationalist so what side are you on?

 • Greg Sargent: Why is Trump reluctant to condemn white supremacy? It's his racism — and his megalomania.

 • Eugene Robinson: Trump's response to Charlottesville should surprise no one

 • E.J. Dionne Jr.: After Charlottesville: End the denial about Trump

 • Michael Gerson: Trump babbles in the face of tragedy

 • The Washington Post's View: What a presidential president would have said about Charlottesville


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-nation-can-only-weep/2017/08/15/d9bd9a10-8202-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html
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« Reply #29 on: August 16, 2017, 08:03:40 pm »

....yes...very good that the POTUS condemnes violence...as we all should



Yes, you just keep on putting spin on things.

You have a lot in common with the racist pig Trump (who obviously got his racist tendencies from his father, who was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally) and with Trump's nazi supporters. You'll see Trump's supporters in the photograph in the following article I post. They're the ones with the nazi flag in amongst the confederate flags. Trump made his TRUE feelings known at his first news conference the other day. Then a day later he read out a statement which he obviously didn't write himself and obviously (you can tell from his body language) felt uncomfortable reciting; then today he showed his TRUE nasty-arsehole racist/nazi attitude again. And true to form, the idiot wannabe nazi from ENZED pipes up and talks a lot of shit....just like his racist hero Trump.

Look at the LARGE PHOTOGRAPH of your American mates in the following article....
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« Reply #30 on: August 16, 2017, 08:03:51 pm »


from The Washington Post....

Trump just hit a new low

On Tuesday, Trump told the nation what he really thought about Charlottesville.
It was downright ugly — ‘bigly ugly’.


By DANA MILBANK | 7:36PM EDT - Tuesday, August 15, 2017

President Donald J. Trump looks away as he listens to a question. — Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press.
President Donald J. Trump looks away as he listens to a question. — Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press.

IT'S a case of being careful what you wish for.

Critics left, right and center panned President Trump for his initial refusal to denounce the neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, one of whom allegedly drove his car into counter-demonstrators, killing one and injuring 19. When Trump finally gave a canned and grudging disavowal of white supremacists, he was urged anew to say more, to be presidential, to bring the nation together.

Well, late on Tuesday, Trump said more and told the nation what he really thought. It was downright ugly.

There, from Trump Tower in New York, was the president of the United States declaring that those protesting against Nazis were … the same as Nazis. “You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, and nobody wants to say that,” said Trump.

Nobody wants to say that because there is — and there can be — no moral equivalence between Nazis and those who oppose Nazis. But Trump saw them as equal. He said the anti-Nazi demonstrators didn't have a permit and “were very, very violent.” Trump maintained that those marching with the white supremacists have been treated “absolutely unfairly” by the press, and there “were very fine people, on both sides.”

Trump was not done with his apology for white supremacists. He went on to endorse the cause that brought these racists, David Duke among them, to Charlottesville: the Confederacy. “I've condemned neo-Nazis. I've condemned many different groups,” the president said. “But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch. Those people were also there because they wanted to protest the taking down of a statue, Robert E. Lee.”

Right. The man who led an army against the United States. “So this week it's Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson's coming down,” Trump went on. “I wonder, is it George Washington next week? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?”

Thus did Trump, after putting Nazis on the same moral plane as anti-Nazis, put the father of our country and the author of the Declaration of Independence on the same moral plane as two men who made war on America. Duke and white-nationalist leader Richard Spencer applauded Trump's performance.

The nationalist-turned-presidential-adviser Stephen K. Bannon used to say that the publishing outfit he led, Breitbart, was a “platform for the alt-right,” a euphemism for white nationalists and related far-right extremists. But now there is a new platform for the alt-right in America: the White House.

It looks more and more like the White Nationalist House.


“No condemnation at all,” the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer said of Trump's reaction, adding, “God bless him”. — Photograph: Courtesy of RawStory.
“No condemnation at all,” the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer said of Trump's reaction, adding, “God bless him”. — Photograph: Courtesy of RawStory.

Trump, who this week retweeted an “alt-right” conspiracy theorist and ally of white supremacists, continues to employ in his White House not just Bannon and Stephen Miller, two darlings of the alt-right, but also Sebastian Gorka, who uses the platform to defend the embattled white man.

“It's this constant, ‘Oh, it's the white man. It's the white supremacists. That's the problem’. No, it isn't,” Gorka said in an interview with Breitbart days before the Charlottesville mayhem. “Go to the Middle East, and tell me what the real problem is today.” At an inaugural ball in January, Gorka wore a medal from the Hungarian nationalist organization Vitezi Rend, a longtime anti-Semitic group that claimed Gorka as one of its own. (He denies it.)

It's more than words. The administration proposed eliminating the “Countering Violent Extremism” program; officials argued that the effort should target only Islamist radicalization, not right-wing extremism. In June, the Trump administration canceled a grant to a group called Life After Hate, which rehabilitates neo-Nazis. “At a time when this is the biggest threat in our country, to pull funding from the only organization in the United States helping people disengage from this is pretty suspect to me,” the group's co-founder Christian Picciolini told me.

And now we have the spectacle of the president, in response to reporters' questions, defending the character and motives of the neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville.

Trump, who has issued scores of tweets without benefit of accurate information, explained his initial unwillingness to single out the white supremacist who drove into a crowd of demonstrators: “Before I make a statement, I like to know the facts.”

Trump, who has criticized others for failing to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism”, declined to call the incident terrorism, dismissing the question as “legal semantics”.

Asked about the culpability of the “alt-right” in the Charlottesville attack, Trump replied: “Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging them?”

Political violence, by anybody, is wrong. But to equate neo-Nazis with those who oppose them is, even for our alt-right president, a new low.


• Dana Milbank writes about political theater in the nation's capital. He joined The Washington Post as a political reporter in 2000.

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Related to this topic:

 • VIDEO: Trump: ‘George Washington was a slave owner’

 • Jennifer Rubin: What did you expect from Trump?

 • Defiant after backlash, Trump reiterates ‘both sides’ to blame in Virginia

 • The Fix: Trump's off-the-rails news conference on Charlottesville and the ‘alt-left’, annotated

 • Rhetorical ricochet on Charlottesville illustrates basic truths about the president

 • Trump made it clear: He sides with the alt-right

 • Jonathan Capehart: Trump's horrible and predictable response to white supremacy in Charlottesville


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/its-looking-more-and-more-like-the-white-nationalist-house/2017/08/15/eb5828b4-81fb-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html
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« Reply #31 on: August 16, 2017, 08:26:09 pm »


DONALD TRUMP:.....“RACISM IS EVIL and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”


......yes.....well said....I agree😉
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« Reply #32 on: August 16, 2017, 09:57:17 pm »


DONALD TRUMP:.....“RACISM IS EVIL and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”


......yes.....well said....I agree




Yes, you just keep on putting spin on things.

You have a lot in common with the racist pig Trump (who obviously got his racist tendencies from his father, who was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally) and with Trump's nazi supporters. Take note of Trump's supporters in the photograph in that last article I posted. They're the ones with the nazi flag in amongst the confederate flags. Trump made his TRUE feelings known at his first news conference the other day. Then a day later he read out a statement which he obviously didn't write himself and obviously (you can tell from his body language) felt uncomfortable reciting; then today he showed his TRUE nasty-arsehole racist/nazi attitude again. And true to form, the idiot wannabe nazi from ENZED (YOU) pipes up and talks a lot of shit....just like your racist hero Trump.

Guess who was praising Trump's news conference today where he reverted to refusing to call the terrorist act of driving a motor vehicle into a crowed of people for what it really is....TERRORISM? Don't know? I'll tell you....it was Trump's mate, David Duke. Do you know who he is? Ever hear of the KKK? Kinda says it all about Trump....and YOU!!
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« Reply #33 on: August 16, 2017, 11:32:14 pm »

You do realise the KKK had high hopes Reagan would be their new hope right?
Just because a tiny group of nutjob white supremacists  hope Trump holds their beliefs (it's obvious to rational people he doesn't) it doesn't rationally follow that Trump supports them. He's clearly stated that he doesn't. He pointed out the facts that leftoid ferals were throwing rocks and armed with baseball bats.... Which is fact.
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« Reply #34 on: August 17, 2017, 12:04:30 am »


Well the KKK appear to have finally lucked out with Donald Trump.

As has every other right-wing hate group in America.

Donald Trump is their hero.

The racists and nazis finally have a sympathiser in the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington D.C.
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« Reply #35 on: August 17, 2017, 06:53:43 am »


Ktj........"DONALD TRUMP:.....“RACISM IS EVIL and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”


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« Reply #36 on: August 17, 2017, 09:12:40 pm »

Yep Trump very quickly explicitly named and condemned racist lunatics like Nazis and the KKK. Since then the loony left have been hallucinating an alternative reality on the matter 😁
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« Reply #37 on: August 18, 2017, 08:18:01 am »

...Trump swift to condemn violence again...obviously is strongly against violence....good stance😉


Trump condemns Barcelona terror, says US ‘will do whatever is necessary to help.
President Trump condemned the Barcelona terror attack on Thursday, vowing the U.S. “will do whatever is necessary to help.”

U.S. authorities are monitoring the unfolding situation as horrific images emerge of the carnage at the scene where a white van rammed into dozens of people in a popular tourist district. There are reports of numerous fatalities and dozens injured.

“The United States condemns the terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, and will do whatever is necessary to help. Be tough & strong, we love you!” Trump tweeted.


Speaking from Panama, Vice President Mike Pence also pledged the United States' assistance to Spain.

“Whatever inspired today’s terror attack, the United States stands ready to assist the people of Spain and find and punish those responsible,” Pence said. “On this dark day, our prayers and the prayers of all the American people are with the victims, their families and the good people of Spain.”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, speaking in Washington, said the incident “has the hallmarks it appears of yet another terrorist attack.” 

He said the U.S. stands “ready to assist law enforcement and national security authorities in Spain,” adding: “Terrorists around the world should know the United States and our allies are resolved to find you and bring you to justice.”

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert tweeted that the department is “closely monitoring events in #Barcelona.” She urged Americans to “stay away from area + update family/friends w whereabouts.”

A Department of Homeland Security statement said the agency has also “reached out to Spanish authorities” and is standing by to help.

The National Counterterrorism Center, the U.S. government hub for threat analysis, also is monitoring the developing events in the Spanish city.

Catalan police tweeted that "there are mortal victims and injured from the crash" without specifying numbers.

The incident took place on Las Ramblas, a crowded tourist hub.

Fox News’ Catherine Herridge contributed to this report.
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from The Washington Post....

Trump's lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff
frustrated and dismayed


Kelly’s early attempts to impose order on the White House
are derailed by the president himself.


By ASHLEY PARKER and ROBERT COSTA | 8:10PM EDT - Wednesday, August 16, 2017

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly looks down as President Trump talked about Charlottesville and white supremacists on Tuesday at Trump Tower. — Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly looks down as President Trump talked about Charlottesville and white supremacists
on Tuesday at Trump Tower. — Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.


BEDMINSTER, NEW JERSEY — As the new White House chief of staff, John F. Kelly routes all calls to and from President Trump through the White House switchboard, where he can sign off on them. He stanches the flow of information reaching the president's desk. And he requires that all staff members — including Trump's relatives — go through him to reach the president.

But none of those attempts at discipline mattered this week. Instead, Kelly stood to the side as Trump upended his new chief of staff's carefully scripted plans — pinballing through an impromptu and combative news conference in New York in which he inflamed another self-inflicted controversy by comparing the actions of white supremacist groups at a deadly rally in Charlottesville last weekend with the counterprotesters who came to oppose them.

The uproar — which has consumed not only the White House but the Republican Party — left Kelly deeply frustrated and dismayed just over two weeks into his job, said people familiar with his thinking. The episode also underscored the difficult challenges that even a four-star general faces in instilling a sense of order around Trump, whose first instinct when cornered is to lash out, even self-destructively.

By Wednesday, Trump, back at his New Jersey golf club, was further isolated and the White House was again under attack. Some aides and confidants privately described themselves as sickened and appalled, if not entirely surprised, by Trump's off-the-cuff comments. And the president watched, furious, as a cascade of chief executives distanced themselves from him, prompting the dissolution of his major business advisory councils.

Kelly allies say the former homeland security secretary came into the West Wing job clear-eyed and practical, with the goal of implementing discipline on the staff and processes of the White House, not controlling the president.

“It's clear Kelly is having a stabilizing and organizing influence on the White House,” said former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Republican-Georgia), an informal Trump adviser. But, he added, “He will gradually have an impact on Trump but it won't be immediate. There are parts of Trump that are almost impossible to manage.”

Another Republican operative and unofficial White House adviser was more definitive, saying that no matter how respected or talented Kelly may be, his first 2½ weeks on the job demonstrated an essential truth about the Trump White House: The president will act as he so pleases, even despite — and sometimes to spite — the efforts of his aides.

“The Kelly era was a bright, shining interlude between failed attempts to right the Trump presidency and it has now come to a close after a short but glorious run,” the operative said. “Like all people who work for the president, he has since experienced the limits of the president's promises to co-operate in order to ensure the success of the enterprise.”

This portrait of the White House under Kelly comes from interviews with 17 West Wing aides, informal advisers, Republican lawmakers and Trump confidants, many speaking on the condition of anonymity to offer a more candid assessment.

During Kelly's short tenure, Trump has startled the world with his bellicose rhetoric on North Korea and attacked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky), further imperiling his stalled legislative agenda.

Nonetheless, Kelly has largely improved staff morale, and implemented a rigor and order that has made West Wing aides feel both more optimistic and less mistrustful of one another, several White House aides said.

He has been empowered to shake up the staff, if necessary, although one confidant noted that all Kelly has done is restrict access to Trump. The chief of staff is reviewing everyone's portfolio, and this friend noted that more West Wing consternation may occur when Kelly begins reallocating assignments.

Longtime Trump campaign associates have been left out of the loop and unable to build a rapport with Kelly. He has shown little interest in courting them or in seeking out their advice about how to improve the president's standing. Phone calls go unreturned or handled in a friendly but curt fashion by his top aide, Kirstjen Nielsen, who came over with Kelly from the Homeland Security Department, they said.

On Wednesday, Hope Hicks, one of the president's most loyal and trusted advisers, was elevated to the role of interim communications director — a role she has unofficially occupied for some time.

In the week before Trump departed for an August vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey, the entire West Wing team began showing up at the 8 a.m. senior staff meetings. Even Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump — who rarely if ever appeared at staff meetings led by Reince Priebus, the previous chief of staff — began regularly attending.


New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump shake hands in the Oval Office on July 31st. — Photograph: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post.
New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump shake hands in the Oval Office on July 31st.
 — Photograph: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post.


Kelly has transformed the West Wing from a political Grand Central Station — with aides and hangers-on cycling through the Oval Office — into an actual place of business. One outside adviser recalls stopping by the White House to say hello to his friends on days he had free time. Under Kelly, he said, approvingly, “If you're coming, now it's, ‘Why are you coming? Who are you coming to see? And why does the White House care about what you have to say?’”

Aides usually work through Nielsen, and she funnels information to Kelly, who decides what to show the president.

One key difference between Kelly and Priebus, two White House officials said, is that aides respect Kelly and think his efforts to control the information flow to Trump are about better serving the president — not self-preservation.

Nonetheless, Trump has shown signs of chafing. Despite Kelly's switchboard requirement, the president has used his personal cellphone to reach people. And one person close to Trump described him as a “caged animal” under Kelly, saying he is always going to respond negatively to attempts to corral him or keep him to a script.

The president was upset by the almost uniform backlash toward his initial statement on Saturday about the violent rally in Charlottesville, in which he did not condemn the white supremacists and neo-Nazis by name, and decried violence from both sides.

Although he did offer a broader scripted condemnation on Monday, he reverted on Tuesday to what aides and confidants say are his more authentic views, arguing that both sides were to blame for the violence.

Gary Cohn, Trump's top economic adviser, who is Jewish, appeared with Trump at Tuesday's news conference, standing behind the president in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York as he said that there were good people who protested alongside the white supremacists and neo-Nazis who organized the rally. Those close to Cohn described him as “disgusted” and “frantically unhappy”, although he did not threaten to resign.

But Trump felt vindicated after the remarks, said people familiar with his thinking. He believes that his base agrees with his assertion that both sides are guilty of violence and that the nation risks sliding into a cauldron of political correctness.

On Capitol Hill, Kelly's evident lack of an ideological compass has drawn mixed reactions from Republicans who have dealt with him, said lawmakers and aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the matter candidly.

Republican leaders appreciate Kelly's light touch on strategy and planning for a busy September. Instead of dictating terms, he is listening to their mounting concerns about legislative expectations and assuring them that he will be a partner.

“He's not an Alexander Haig giving orders,” said Representative Peter T. King (Republican-New York), referring to the late four-star Army general who served as chief of staff under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. “He's been very direct, to the point, making clear what the president's position is. He's firm and tough, but not heavy-handed. He's seen as a totally responsible person.”

But some of Trump's conservative allies said they wish Kelly would do more to force the Republican establishment to rally behind the president, and they worry that Kelly is following the model of Priebus by showing too much deference to congressional Republican leaders.

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus have talked about Kelly as a “black box” who is unreadable on policy, several people close to the group said.

But within the West Wing, Kelly remains popular. Late last week in Bedminster, he gathered at Trump's clubhouse restaurant for a relaxed, social dinner with the senior staff members. The group included Ivanka Trump, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Hicks, Nielsen and others. The president also came by, staying for the full meal.

As they reminisced about the campaign and told jokes, Kelly offered a quip. “The best job I ever had was as a sergeant in the Marine Corps,” he said with a laugh, “and after one week on this job, I believe the best job I ever had is as a sergeant in the Marine Corps.”


Robert Costa reported from Washington D.C.

• Ashley Parker is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2017, after 11 years at The New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress, among other things.

• Robert Costa is a national political reporter at The Washington Post.

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EDITORIAL: Should the president's advisers stay or resign?

The morality of damage control in the ‘House of Trump’.

By EDITORIAL BOARD | 8:10PM EDT - Wednesday, August 16, 2017

White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly. — Photograph: Matt McClain/The Washington Post.
White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly. — Photograph: Matt McClain/The Washington Post.

IN THE wake of President Trump's stunning defense of white supremacist marchers in Charlottesville, Republican politicians and members of the administration are coming under increasing pressure to distance themselves from the president. For officeholders and candidates, it is past time. For people inside government, the calculation is more complicated.

Mr. Trump's comments on Tuesday gave comfort to racists and hatemongers. After white supremacists chanted anti-Semitic slogans and brandished Nazi salutes in a rally that culminated in the murder of Heather Heyer, 32, and the wounding of 19 others, Mr. Trump found “blame on both sides” and “very fine people, on both sides”. Members of Mr. Trump's party, from Virginia gubernatorial nominee Ed Gillespie up to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wisconsin), ought to have no difficulty saying that a person who holds such views is not fit to be the nation's leader.

But what about administration insiders? So far, a handful of business and union leaders have resigned from White House advisory councils, prompting Mr. Trump on Wednesday to announce that he was abolishing two groups. (Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon.com and owner of The Washington Post, has visited the White House as a member of a separate technology advisory council.) We admired Kenneth C. Frazier, the CEO of drugmaker Merck, when he became the first to quit after Mr. Trump found fault on “many sides” of the Charlottesville events. Mr. Frazier acted on principle, and Mr. Trump promptly lashed out at him on Twitter.

But is the country better off without the councils? You could argue there was a marginal advantage in Mr. Trump hearing from businesspeople who, for example, believe climate change is real and trade is beneficial. On the other hand, the councils didn't seem to have much impact. Their disappearance probably won't matter much one way or another.

The resignation of Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, on the other hand — or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis or national security adviser H.R. McMaster — might matter a lot. Mr. Kelly, in particular, who stood impassively to one side as Mr. Trump went on his Tuesday tirade, is being extensively analyzed, advised, prodded and deplored. We didn't find anything to regret when his predecessor, Reince Priebus, left the scene. Mr. Priebus, first as Republican National Committee chairman and then as White House chief, had been primarily a Trump enabler. “Winning is the antidote to a lot of things,” he famously said in February 2016.

Maybe the same is true of Mr. Kelly; it's hard to know from the outside. But maybe the former Marine general is trying to bring order to the White House in ways that could reduce the risk of unintended war or uncontrolled crisis. Mr. Mattis, similarly, seems to be trying to keep things from spinning out of control in Northeast Asia; Mr. Tillerson has tried to prevent a counterproductive rupture of the nuclear deal with Iran; Mr. McMaster is trying to forge a strategy for Afghanistan. Each of these men must consider, every day, whether they are maximizing whatever leverage they have for the good of the country, and whether their accomplishments justify whatever “normalizing” benefit their presence conveys on their chief executive. As long as they can answer yes, we think they should be thanked, not condemned.


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Ktj...."Kelly has transformed the West Wing from a political Grand Central Station — with aides and hangers-on cycling through the Oval Office"

...yes....a great team....glad you agree😉
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