Kelly cedes control to new faces amid latest Trump tumult
By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN
2 hrs agoAs Reince Priebus was approaching his final days in the West Wing, staffers had a running joke: if you got between the frenzied chief of staff and the Oval Office, you risked being run over as he darted from meeting to meeting, hoping to force himself into President Donald Trump's good graces.
John Kelly, who now finds his standing in the White House similarly fractured, has adopted a different approach. Sources inside the West Wing say Kelly has attempted no such effort to insert himself into the President's daily interactions. Now less engaged in West Wing decisions and less visible in Trump's day-to-day, Kelly has found himself on a downward slide, sources familiar with the situation said.
Though Kelly used to hold senior staff meetings in his office three times a week, the chief of staff has reduced those to one per week, preferring instead to hold smaller meetings with fewer staffers throughout the day, a source with knowledge of the meetings tells CNN.
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