Departing chief of staff John Kelly paints a dim portrait of Trump

Washington: A few months ago, a senior Trump administration official wrote a controversial anonymous oped in the New York Times that said forces within the administration were working to rein in President Donald Trump’s potentially damaging whims.

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In an interview, Trump’s departing chief of staff, John Kelly, basically confirmed that’s exactly what has happened for the past two years.

“In the phone interview [on] Friday, Kelly defended his rocky tenure, arguing that it is best measured by what the president did not do when Kelly was at his side,” says a…

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