Trump ousts Priebus, names Kelly his new chief of staff

President Trump announced Friday on Twitter that he was replacing his embattled Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, a former general.

Priebus, the former head of the Republican National Committee, had only been chief of staff for six months but has been embroiled in a White House power struggle with incoming communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Priebus apparently lost that struggle. Nico Lauricella

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