All posts tagged "Chief Of Staff"

Steve Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and former adviser to President Donald Trump during his first term, made a bold prediction for Politico about the future of the current White House press secretary.

“After she’s spokesman for a year or two, I think she’s going to get a Cabinet position. Maybe chief of staff,” Bannon told correspondent Adam Wren for his extensive profile on Leavitt.

Wren added that Leavitt was "open to the idea but has said she’s not qualified to be chief," according to a source "familiar with her thinking."...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has created an atmosphere of hostility, mockery, and disparagement in the briefing room, a veteran reporter told Politico.

In a lengthy profile, correspondent Adam Wren quoted Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent with The New York Times, who has covered 17 press secretaries over his career.

Wren wrote, "He told me that the current tension 'goes beyond anything that is traditional to the point of open hostility, and mockery and disparagement in a way that’s meant for the larger audience, not for the people in the room.'"...