Ayers Declines Drumpf's Offer

[SIZE=7]Nick Ayers Declined Trump’s Offer To Replace John Kelly As Chief Of Staff: Reports[/SIZE]
The former political consultant has been described in just three words: young, rich and loyal.

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Nick Ayers, then chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, appears with former national security adviser H.R. McMaster. (AFP Contributor via Getty Images)

Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff and the top choice to move into the same role for the president, declined the offer and will leave the White House in the next few weeks, according to several media reports.

The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were the first to report that Ayers declined President Donald Trump’s pitch, although he offered to serve in a temporary basis for several months. The president rejected that deal, saying he wanted a permanent chief of staff as he enters the fray going into the 2020 election season.

Ayers thanked both Trump and Pence in a tweet Sunday, saying he would continued to work with the president “to advance the cause.”

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It’s unclear who the new front-runner is to take over the role after Trump told reporters Saturday that John Kelly would leave the administration by the end of the year.

“He’s a great guy,” the president said of Kelly. “I appreciate his service very much.”
Ayers, a wealthy 36-year-old political consultant from Georgia, enjoyed face time with Trump in his role as chief of staff to Pence.

In Ayers, Trump had found a loyalist he hoped would replace the outgoing Kelly, who has reportedly referred to the president several times as an “idiot.” Ayers raised eyebrows last year when he told a group of Republican donors that the party should boot any GOP lawmaker who opposes Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda.

“Just imagine the possibilities of what can happen if our entire party unifies behind him?” Ayers said of Trump, according to Politico.

For more than a year, he has joined Pence at regular lunches with Trump, during which he gained the president’s approval and trust, CNN reported last month.

Yet Ayers was a divisive figure among White House staffers, as HuffPost previously reported. He’s known as a constant self-promoter, attempting to embody the perfect Southern gentleman, an image crafted with politesse, expensive suits and a drawl.

“If you talk slow, people think you think slow,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told HuffPost earlier this year. “[Ayers] thinks four times as fast as he talks.”

In a November profile describing his complex web of political ties, The New York Times called him “an ambitious ‘House of Cards’ character who wandered onto the set of the Trump reality show.”

Ayers’ career took off quickly. He reported a net worth of between $12 million and nearly $55 million after less than seven years of work as a political consultant and a partner in a media buying company.

He prompted ethics concerns, however, for taking the top post under Pence in June 2017 without first selling his media buying company, C5 Creative Consulting, even though his influence in the vice president’s office could impact political advertising decisions. He eventually sold his stake by May of this year.

He has also reportedly ingratiated himself with Trump’s eldest children, sharing Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.’s enthusiasm for hunting.

The announcement comes shortly after Trump announced two other staff shake-ups, choosing the State Department’s Heather Nauert as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and William Barr as attorney general.

Musical chairs continues…

This may be the first time in history that someone gave their two weeks resignation notice during their first two weeks.

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I am in the process of interviewing some really great people for the position of White House Chief of Staff. Fake News has been saying with certainty it was Nick Ayers, a spectacular person who will always be with our [S]#[/S][B]MAGA[/B] agenda. I will be making a decision soon!

:D:D:D:D

Ayers revealed the news in a tweet. Its full text read:
“Thank you @realDonaldTrump, @VP, and my great colleagues for the honor to serve our Nation at The White House.
I will be departing at the end of the year but will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause. #Georgia

The Wall Street Journal originally reported that Trump and Ayers could not reach agreement on Ayers’ length of service and that he would instead assist the president from outside the administration. Trump wants his next chief of staff to hold the job through the 2020 election. Ayers, who has young triplets, had long planned to leave the administration at the end of the year, and reportedly discussed taking the job on an interim basis only through next spring.

Trump had developed confidence in Ayers, in part by watching the effectiveness of Pence’s largely independent political operation. Ayers also earned the backing of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the president’s daughter and son-in-law and senior advisers, for taking on the new role, White House officials said.

Drump ako na shida kama another pretender Drump hapa kijiji…you do you ferked,you don’t you double ferked.

Drumpf should promote Sarah Huckabee-Sanders to the position. That would triple the entertainment for us outsiders.

[SIZE=7]Good riddance to John Kelly- [/SIZE][SIZE=6]He’s been the chief of staff America didn’t need.[/SIZE]

No person’s entire career can be summed up in a single quote. But ousted White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s defense to the charge that the Trump administration’s child separation policy at the border was cruel deserves to be etched into his tombstone.

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“The children,” he said, “will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever.” :frowning:

That is roughly the degree of thoughtfulness and consideration that was put into the policy. And it properly reflects Kelly’s true legacy as chief of staff.

I deliberately added this spin from FALSE Network:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XTXvNyONeU

The typical thing to say about Kelly is that he brought order to the White House process. He was the “grown-up in the room” who enforced discipline, but, ultimately, even Kelly, a retired Marine Corps general, could not curb President Donald Trump’s most egregious instincts.
But the emphasis on times when Kelly could rein in Trump ignores the extent to which the two men were genuinely like-minded, and the many crucial moments where Kelly exacerbated Trump’s worst instincts.
Kelly intervened to scuttle a potentially sensible Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) deal while mocking large numbers of DACA-eligible youth as “lazy.” He slandered Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) and then for no real reason refused to apologize. He attempted to orchestrate a cover-up of White House aide Rob Porter’s alleged domestic abuse.
Trump is having trouble replacing Kelly. Nick Ayres, the young political operative who’d long been rumored to be next in line, apparently turned down the job. Based on Trump’s hiring track record, we can expect he’ll hire someone terrible. But the Kelly bar is exceptionally low, so America may be in for a stroke of luck. But we owe it to ourselves to remember how bad Kelly was. :stuck_out_tongue:

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/10/18133132/john-kelly-resignation-chief-of-staff-legacy

:D:D:D That would make me ecstatic! For the first time, I’d make time to watch those press briefings…