Personal aside. I spent 9 years working for a large online retailer, 7 of those years in the fraud prevention department. I was very good at it. Although I’ve never been convicted of a crime, never even attempted one, for some reason I just think like a thief. I could just look at what appeared to be a perfectly normal order, and know it wasn’t legitimate, and then sit there and prove it. In other words, I can smell a con from a mile off.
I picked up the scent very strongly yesterday,immediately upon hearing of the elevation of Reince Priebus to the job of WH Chief of Staff. This made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Trumpenstein savaged Reince and the RNC all throughout the primaries and general election, accusing them of rigging the election, cutting him off, and threatening to go it alone. And now Reince is going to have almost unfettered access to President Trump? When Steve Bannon hates him?
The shiny toy logic is easy to see. Priebus is a Washington insider, a natural conduit between the outsider Trump White House and the establishment scene. He’s a logical choice. Here’s where the sting comes in. Priebus has to run for his RNC chair in 2017, his current term is up. There were already people lining up to run against him. I can’t see how he can run for the RNC chair and be the full time chief of staff for the Trump White House. Priebus will be busier than most chiefs of staff due to the abysmal ignorance of his boss on the simplest day to day machinations of governing.
There’s the set up. Trump makes Priebus the Chief of Staff, and suffers through working with the little freebooter, biding his time. Priebus withdraws his name from consideration for his RNC post due to his current duties. The day after the filing deadline to run for RNC Chair passes, the White House announces that Reince Priebus is being replaced as the Chief of Staff. No more White House access, and no RNC Chair job to go back to. Game, set and match, Trump. But at least it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
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