Kelly bans Omarosa from some WH meetings – By John Bowden (thehill.com)/ Sept 10 2017
President Trump’s Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly is reportedly freezing out aides to the president he deems unfit for serious meetings, including aide Omarosa Manigault.
The New York Times reported on Friday that Kelly has created a “no-fly list” of aides who previously wandered into meetings unannounced and uninvited, who no longer have that power. Manigault, the Times reported, is chief among them.
In charge of this list is Kirstjen Nielsen, Kelly’s longtime aide, who was recently appointed as an assistant to the president and his principal deputy. Nielsen is described in the article as “brusque” and “no-nonsense,” and in charge of wrangling aides on Trump’s outer circle.
Manigault has served as Trump’s chief advisor on African-American issues in the White House, and earlier this month attacked the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) for “showboating” and refusing to meet with Trump.
“Coming to the table over and over again to work through these issues is the only effective way to get where they wanted to go,” Manigault told Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne.
“And instead, they’re showboating and they’re actually shorting out their constituents that they committed to represent by not coming to meet with the president,” she said in August.
PB/TK – Good Job Kelly. Yes I agree there should be limited access to a POTUS, especially from “aides” who are there to just bolster ones ego. OK Omarosa has one job, African American Affairs advisement, so yes she has a limited job and does not need to come and go as she pleases, uninvited to meetings such as Syrian or Afghanistan Wars.
