Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers, widely seen as a top contender to replace outgoing White House chief John Kelly, will not occupy that role, The Wall Street Journal first reported Sunday.
Ayers appeared to confirm the news:
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
— Nick Ayers (@nick_ayers) December 9, 2018
Unnamed White House officials told the Journal that Ayers and Trump “failed to agree on a time-frame for the job”: Per the report, Ayers agreed to be Trump’s chief of staff for the first three months of 2019, a time frame initially proposed by Trump.
But, according to the Journal, the President changed his mind, asking Ayers to fill the position for the long term.
Ayers’ current role as a top adviser to Pence is rife with conflicts of interest given Ayers’ career as a political consultant and fundraiser.
So the disagreement was over whether “the long term” was more or less than three months?
Another crook off the hook!
Sounds like Ayers doesn’t want to miss out on the lucrative pre-Presidential election consultancy season. And/or he sees the writing on the wall for Individual-1.
“Three months sounds like a lifetime to me,” Quoted the Mooch.
I think he found out they were planning to demote the COS to a non-White House position.