Dec 12, 2018
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— James Corden, Best of Late Night
Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff is accused of helping commit multiple campaign finance violations — most notably illegally working to conceal the identity of donors.
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In June 2017, Ayers became Pence's chief of staff. He is considered a possible replacement as President Donald Trump's chief of staff if John Kelly leaves that post.
In a complaint filed Tuesday with the Missouri Ethics Commission against Greitens' campaign and nonprofit, Ayers is accused of helping both entities commit multiple campaign finance violations — most notably illegally working to conceal the identity of donors.
Among the pieces of evidence included in the complaint is a December 2015 email discussion between Ayers and Meredith Gibbons, Greitens’ fundraiser, about a “restricted donor.”
The email says a potential donor may not be able to give because he “manages money for the state of Missouri.”
“Eric can mention the 501(c)(4) if applicable, but no idea how [redacted] will react to that,” the email says.
Two days after Gibbons received the email, the complaint notes, a Texas-based nonprofit called Freedom Frontier donated $500,000 to LG PAC, a Kansas-based political action committee.
All told, Freedom Frontier would end up giving $4 million to LG PAC, which it spent attacking Greitens’ rivals for the 2016 GOP gubernatorial nomination.
Mr. Short, who was President Trump’s legislative affairs director for about two years, is taking the job vacated by Nick Ayers.
Maybe Roger Stone is trying to set the stage for an insanity plea, because his latest declaration is either satire or conspiracy theory; or Stone is hinting at something that will come to light, probably sooner rather than later. Stone posted on...
From the December 10, 2018 article:
Whether Ayers is a wunderkind or just a magnolia and honey suckle version of Karl Rove, he is indisputably a player in the Republican swamp. He also appears to be distancing himself both from Trump’s administration and from Mike Pence’s immediate circle of intimates. Bear in mind that Pence’s lawyer spoke privately with Mueller in summer of 2017 and stated that Pence wanted to cooperate fully with the Mueller probe. Things may start to get hot and heavy for Pence and Stone’s arcane comment may speak to that issue, because if anybody knows where the bodies are buried, it is Roger Stone.
Trump’s enduring strength is his support at the base of the G.O.P. But approval ratings—even Trump’s—can change in response to dramatic developments.
From the December 10, 2018 article:
Regardless of Ayers’s personal situation, the takeaway here is that a savvy, ambitious young Republican—one with strong links to the donor class that plays such a key role in the Party—has spurned the President. This just two days after federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York said that Trump had directed Michael Cohen, his former fixer and personal lawyer, to carry out two campaign-finance felonies, and the special counsel, Robert Mueller, said that Cohen had provided his team with“useful information concerning certain discrete Russia-related matters core to its investigation.”
White House chief of staff: no longer best job in the world
There once was a time when the White House chief of staff was considered the best job in Washington, D.C. The chief was closest to the president. The chief ran a staff of individuals who helped formulate public policy. It was a dream job.
Now it’s a nightmarepost. Donald Trump has just pushed his second chief of staff in less than two years out the door. John Kelly is leaving at the end of the…
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White House chief of staff: no longer best job in the world
There once was a time when the White House chief of staff was considered the best job in Washington, D.C. The chief was closest to the president. The chief ran a staff of individuals who helped formulate public policy. It was a dream job.
Now it’s a nightmarepost. Donald Trump has just pushed his second chief of staff in less than two years out the door. John Kelly is leaving at the end of the…
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While President Donald Trump and Nick Ayers were still in the middle of negotiations about him replacing John Kelly as chief of staff, Trump had already given Ayers a task, according to a source familiar with the discussion. He wanted him to conduct a thorough review of how the West Wing operates, including evaluating staffing, in order to make it more politically focused over the next two years.