Riding an Untamed Horse: Priebus Opens Up on Serving Trump
- 6 years ago
Riding an Untamed Horse: Priebus Opens Up on Serving Trump
“I knocked on the door of the car and Jeff was sitting there
and I just jumped in and shut the door and I said, ‘Jeff, what’s going on?’” Mr. Priebus said.
“After the joint session, we all talked to him and Melania said, ‘No tweeting,’” Mr. Priebus said.
Vice President Mike Pence and the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, were in the meeting, but Mr. Priebus was not.
“I responded, ‘What?’ And he said, ‘Well, we just got a special counsel and Sessions just resigned.’ I said, ‘What?
What the hell are you talking about?’ And I said, ‘That can’t happen.’”
Mr. Priebus bolted down the back stairway of the West Wing and out the door to the parking lot and found Mr.
Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, raced out of the building, found
him in his car, banged on the door and implored him to come back inside.
“I knocked on the door of the car and Jeff was sitting there
and I just jumped in and shut the door and I said, ‘Jeff, what’s going on?’” Mr. Priebus said.
“After the joint session, we all talked to him and Melania said, ‘No tweeting,’” Mr. Priebus said.
Vice President Mike Pence and the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, were in the meeting, but Mr. Priebus was not.
“I responded, ‘What?’ And he said, ‘Well, we just got a special counsel and Sessions just resigned.’ I said, ‘What?
What the hell are you talking about?’ And I said, ‘That can’t happen.’”
Mr. Priebus bolted down the back stairway of the West Wing and out the door to the parking lot and found Mr.
Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, raced out of the building, found
him in his car, banged on the door and implored him to come back inside.