Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees

[mystery-ak]

 Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees

A new process, laid out in two memos circulating in the West Wing this week, is supposed to ensure Kelly vets everything that hits the Resolute Desk.

By ELIANA JOHNSON and NANCY COOK

08/24/2017 05:11 AM EDT

Confronted with a West Wing that treated policymaking as a free-for-all, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly is instituting a system used by previous administrations to limit internal competition —and to make himself the last word on the material that crosses the president’s desk.

It’s a quiet effort to make Trump conform to White House decision-making norms he’s flouted without making him feel shackled or out of the loop. In a conference call last week, Kelly initiated a new policymaking process in which just he and one other aide — White House staff secretary Rob Porter, a little-known but highly regarded Rhodes Scholar who overlapped with Jared Kushner as an undergraduate at Harvard — will review all documents that cross the Resolute Desk.

more
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/john-kelly-trump-control-241967

[Oceander]

Now take away his twitter account.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Kelly Seeks to Restore White House Order Ahead of Key Fights
Newsmax/AP, Aug 23, 2017

In his first month on the job, White House chief of staff John Kelly has made significant progress toward imposing discipline on a chaotic operation, even as it's clear he still struggles to have the same effect on the president himself.

The White House is a less contentious place and decision-making is becoming more orderly under Kelly's thumb, according to more than a dozen people interviewed by The Associated Press, including White House officials, outside advisers and others who work regularly with the administration. They say a group of more experienced advisers — including a trio of generals — is increasingly holding sway. And they describe a process in which Kelly has successfully limited dissenting voices, restricted access to the president and "stacked the deck" on major decisions to guide him toward an outcome. This new Afghanistan war strategy announced this week was a chief example of the process.

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Kelly's consolidation of power is a direct a result of the dramatic shakeup of Trump's inner circle. Since taking the reins from former chief of staff Reince Priebus, Kelly has begun to reorganize the process by which Trump receives information and push back against the open-door policy that gave White House officials constant access to their boss.

"General Kelly demands of the White House staff those same qualities he has exemplified in his 45 years of public service: integrity, humility, team cohesion, focus, discipline, performance and results," said White House counselor Kellyanne Conway. "He commands respect and shows respect, empowers us to succeed and expects us to help promote the president's agenda and not a personal agenda."


More: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/john-kelly-white-house-order/2017/08/23/id/809417/

Want the job done? Put a military man in there.   ^-^     (And excepting Bannon's last gasps, leaks do seem to be under control ..... )

[Maj. Bill Martin]

John Kelly cares about the mission first, and always has.  He has zero patience or tolerance for those pulling in different directions for their own reasons.

[Emjay]

Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees

A new process, laid out in two memos circulating in the West Wing this week, is supposed to ensure Kelly vets everything that hits the Resolute Desk.

By ELIANA JOHNSON and NANCY COOK

08/24/2017 05:11 AM EDT

Confronted with a West Wing that treated policymaking as a free-for-all, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly is instituting a system used by previous administrations to limit internal competition —and to make himself the last word on the material that crosses the president’s desk.

It’s a quiet effort to make Trump conform to White House decision-making norms he’s flouted without making him feel shackled or out of the loop. In a conference call last week, Kelly initiated a new policymaking process in which just he and one other aide — White House staff secretary Rob Porter, a little-known but highly regarded Rhodes Scholar who overlapped with Jared Kushner as an undergraduate at Harvard — will review all documents that cross the Resolute Desk.

more
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/24/john-kelly-trump-control-241967

Sounds like we have an adult in the room.

[ConservativeGranny]

He might want to unplug Donald's television while he is at it and get him a library card.

[libertybele]

Want the job done? Put a military man in there.   ^-^     (And excepting Bannon's last gasps, leaks do seem to be under control ..... )

Preibus and Bannon gone is definitely a good thing.  Now if he can just get the Kushner's  out of the West Wing...and yes, take away his Twitter account.