According to CNN, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will be resigning in a matter of days.
But we've heard all this before. Kelly was supposed to be gone during the summer only to announce at the end of July that he would remain until the end of 2020.
The story heated up again last month following revelations of confrontations with National Security Adviser John Bolton and Trump's favorite thug Corey Lewandowski. But again nothing.
Things could be different this time though. Special Counsel Robert Mueller is expected to release new information in the Russia probe as soon as today and perhaps Kelly is going to finally jump ship before the net closes in. Indeed, it wasn't so long ago that Kelly was grilled by Mueller. I'm sure he came away from the experience wishing he was in a room with Bolton and Lewandowski.
Not that I feel a whole lot of sympathy for Kelly. He knew what he was getting into when he accepted the position as he did when Trump appointed him to head the Department of Homeland Security. Even if Trump and Kelly scarcely speak to each other, there was no need to for Kelly to tell reporters that Rex Tillerson was sitting on a toilet when he fired him as Secretary of State, to make false claims about Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and refuse to apologize when caught in a lie and cover up domestic abuse allegations against his former aide Rob Porter. Kelly is every bit the scoundrel that Trump is. Then again the same can probably be said of whoever succeeds Kelly.
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