“They were an influence that has to be dealt with,” Kelly said of the president's family. “By no means do I mean Mrs. Trump.'
Former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly said Tuesday that senior White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were “an influence that has to be dealt with." At the same time, Kelly complimented First Lady Melania Trump as a “wonderful person.”
“Was it complicated to have the president’s family in the government at the time?” David Rubenstein of Bloomberg Television’s The David Rubenstein Show asked Kelly at the SALT Conference in Las Vegas. “Staffing the president of the United States, you’re trying to get together not only White House staff but the entire federal government to help him make the kinds of decisions, whether its economic decisions, social decisions or life and death wartime decisions,” Kelly said.
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