No One Really Cares If John Kelly Leaves

Playbook: “The Washington parlor game about when John Kelly will actually leave the White House could not be more irrelevant. He’s already gone. Whether he has a hard pass or not is irrelevant. The president equated Putin’s word to the word of his director of national intelligence. He met with Putin with no one besides an interpreter. He allowed his press secretary to go out in public and leave open the possibility that they might ship a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow back into the arms of Mother Russia. Clearly the chief of staff has no ability to rein in his boss or effectively manage up.”