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Young, rich and loyal: Nick Ayers could be Trump's next chief of staff
cnn.com ^ | 12/8/18 | Jeremy Diamond and Elizabeth Landers

Posted on 12/09/2018 5:21:59 AM PST by a little elbow grease

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Trump has begun to envy the smoothly operating vice president's office, which Ayers has managed to keep distanced from the daily scrum and scandal of the White House

VP Pence doesn't tweet at 3 AM.

21 posted on 12/09/2018 6:39:51 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Yo-Yo

Because Pence is asleep by 8 PM.


22 posted on 12/09/2018 6:58:48 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: trebb; 9YearLurker
I’m sure he wants to hear from you.
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Trump could use some advice from us that elected him.

He seems to get most of his advice from a crowd who's only downside in life is taking their billions and flying to Switzerland; while we have to live in a soon to be 3d world country.

23 posted on 12/09/2018 7:01:21 AM PST by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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To: trebb

Feeling snotty this morning, are you?

Roger Stone is of course very much Roger Stoney, but he is smart, knows the politics game, and is totally loyal to Trump. He tried to sound the alarm back in the transition that “personnel is policy” and that Trump was making a grievous error in bringing in all the GOPe globalist Establishment types, as Javanka were recommending, as opposed to actual MAGA loyalists.

Clearly, despite Trump’s regularly asking Stone for advice, he opted to have his ear filled with the wrong voices on that very critical count.

And I expect Trump wants to hear from me about as much as I want to read your snark.


24 posted on 12/09/2018 7:11:12 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: thinden

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/nick-ayers-trump-new-chief-of-staff/2018/12/09/id/893704/

Ayers notched his first political win at age 19, when he left college to join Sonny Perdue’s successful gubernatorial campaign in Georgia.

Perdue, now Trump’s agriculture secretary and a key link to his rural supporters, introduced Ayers to his future wife, Jamie Floyd, a second cousin of Perdue. The Ayers are parents to five-year-old triplets.

Ayers went on to work with other Republican governors, and overhauled the Republican Governors Association (RGA) when he ran it from 2007 to 2010, boosting the group’s coffers and making it more politically powerful.

Bill Palatucci, a national committee official of the Republican Party and senior advisor to former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, credits Ayers’ work at the RGA with helping Christie get elected in an overwhelmingly liberal state.

“His strategic skills are unsurpassed,” Palatucci said. “He understands both the policy and politics of the big issues.”

As a political consultant, Ayers became wealthy, his White House financial disclosure forms show.

He divested ownership of his previous company, C5 Creative, after he entered the government, a sale valued between $5 million and $25 million, and he also holds valuable farmland in Georgia worth between $1.5 million and $11 million.

A string of wins was broken in 2012, when he managed the short-lived presidential campaign of Tim Pawlenty, a former Republican governor of Minnesota.

Pence tapped Ayers to help him with his 2016 Indiana gubernatorial reelection, and kept him on as adviser when he became Trump’s vice presidential running mate.

After the campaign, Ayers helped found America First Policies, a combative political group that advocates for Trump’s policies.

Ayers, an evangelical Christian, has developed a close relationship with Trump during his time as Pence’s chief of staff. A rare flashpoint came in April, when Pence upset Trump by hiring an aide who had been deemed a “Never Trumper” - a term that describes anti-Trump Republicans. Two days later, the aide was gone.

Ayers was not a universally popular candidate among other White House staff.

Some Trump advisers argued against elevating him out of concern that he might not necessarily have the president’s best interests at heart, given his loyalty to Pence and lack of personal history with Trump himself.

Trump was told directly about these concerns, one source said

Other advisers, however, have told Trump that Ayers’ political experience would come in handy as Trump embarks on his re-election campaign, strategically choosing what events Trump should attend and how much time he should spend campaigning. Kelly’s inexperience on matters of politics had been glaringly obvious to Trump, officials said.

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25 posted on 12/09/2018 7:25:13 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: FreedomPoster

Looks like ascendancy of Ayers would be ascendency of The Perdue Boys... and GA? What do Georgians know of him?


26 posted on 12/09/2018 7:27:47 AM PST by spintreebob
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To: spintreebob

I’m not familiar with him. Will ask around.


27 posted on 12/09/2018 7:38:03 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: a little elbow grease

When they just make thing up they always use the same old lame line.
multiple sources told CNN.................................


28 posted on 12/09/2018 7:43:11 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: a little elbow grease

But Jared & Ivanka are allies of his...................

I’m not crazy about these two and don’t trust their likes/dislikes.


29 posted on 12/09/2018 7:45:20 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: a little elbow grease

Two critical things for the next Chief of Staff.
1. The energy to keep up with President Trump.
2. The ability to say no to those not on the Trump train.


30 posted on 12/09/2018 7:56:10 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: a little elbow grease

I’ve read articles that have said the biggest beef there is concerning General Kelly is the fact that he cuts off Jared/Ivanka’s access to the President. He wants it that anything concerning the People’s business goes through him and Jared/Ivanka don’t like that.

Personally, I’m with General Kelly on this one and I understand that Ivanka is the Presidents daughter (and she’s hot), but I don’t exactly trust Jared and Ivanka’s judgement in matters political.


31 posted on 12/09/2018 8:02:24 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: a little elbow grease

11 to 54 million. an “(ex) serial investor” who owns farmland in Georgia.

This guy would be another bad idea. Too green, too much of a showboat. I have to say I hate to say taht I’m doubting Trump’s judgement in selecting people. He is beginning to appear overwhelmed.


32 posted on 12/09/2018 8:08:02 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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To: spintreebob

thanx for the background.

I see potential there now.


33 posted on 12/09/2018 8:21:42 AM PST by thinden
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To: Sequoyah101

“This guy would be another bad idea. “

Agreed. Too young and wet behind the ears. I would much prefer a Marine Gunnery Sergeant...an R Lee Ermey type if you wll..or a couple of stars in that slot.


34 posted on 12/09/2018 8:22:04 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: 9YearLurker

Pence is the most conservative figure in the White House and Trump knows it. Without Pence and Ayers the Trump ship will sink and what remains of his agenda with it...


35 posted on 12/09/2018 8:22:44 AM PST by blackberry1
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To: blackberry1

Baloney.


36 posted on 12/09/2018 8:29:03 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: blackberry1

This is who Mike Establishment Pence really is:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pences-love-affair-with-immigration-reform


37 posted on 12/09/2018 8:31:56 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: kenmcg
"Kellyanne ought to think about muzzling her $%^thead husband instead of going after the new chief of staff."

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I'm not sure where you got the idea that Kellyanne is bummed about Ayers except for in this article, but if you read it completely it goes on to say, "Conway disputes those allegations, telling CNN:

"I have zero beef with Nick Ayers."

38 posted on 12/09/2018 8:37:11 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: thinden
they’ve always been too chummy with libs like clintonista lawyer, jamie gorelick ----------

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LOL ......

THAT was a freak-out when I saw that in the news way back when.

39 posted on 12/09/2018 8:40:42 AM PST by a little elbow grease (Duct tape and cable ties have more worth than pussy hats and resistance.)
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To: 9YearLurker

The next two years for Trump will resemble the last two years of Reagan. He won’t survive with people like Kelly. The general doesn’t have the stomach for the battle that’s coming. The judicial agenda is the legacy that Trump is building and the only thing that really matters to him. Everything else can be overturned in one election cycle. True conservative values will see Trump thru the next two years. He needs warriors who will stand in the face of what is about to happen.


40 posted on 12/09/2018 8:42:11 AM PST by blackberry1
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