John’s Dilemma
“When you lose that power,” said Leon Panetta, “you become a virtual White House intern, being told where to go and what to do.”
Panetta, a Democratic former White House Chief of Staff was seemingly sharing his experience.
“At the top, you have someone who consistently does not tell the truth,” said James K. Glassman. “That’s a signal to the people below him that they don’t have to tell the truth either, that this is the way we conduct Government — we lie when we have to, we mistreat people when we have to, we humiliate them.”
Glassman was the founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute.
It was said that by a source that Trump “doesn’t like a lot of the stuff he has done. He often gets angry and says, ‘Who does this guy think he is?’ But Kelly has a longer chance of surviving because Trump respects him.”
Kelly often talked about resigning according to some sources. It was believed that it was just a matter of time before something happened.