Advisers, officials, and Trump friends agree: The White House right now is not the place to be

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The mood inside the White House is about what you'd expect — tense, dark, with some paranoia for good measure, more than a dozen officials, outside advisers, and friends of President Trump told The Washington Post Tuesday.

The administration is dealing with the fallout from Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer in June 2016, who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. Trump is furious that now his eldest son is involved in the Russia scandal, and even people who support Trump Jr. call the situation a "Category 5 hurricane." At the same time, two senior White House officials and an outside ally said Trump is being pushed by daughter and senior adviser Ivanka Trump, son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, and first lady Melania Trump to replace Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff, on the grounds there needs to be a staff shakeup; representatives for all three deny this, while friends told the Post Trump is hesitant to replace Priebus while Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.