Chief Of Staff Finds Himself In The Spotlight And Not In A Good Way
The White House is dealing with the fallout of domestic abuse allegations against now-former staff secretary Rob Porter. The focus now is on chief of staff John Kelly who came to Porter's defense.
It didn't take long for attention to turn from the resignation of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter to scrutiny of how chief of staff John Kelly handled the allegations of spousal abuse lodged against his close aide.
And as a chief of staff, that spotlight is not where you want to be.
"Frankly, the last thing you can afford to do as chief of staff to the president is become the headline rather than the person working in the background," said Leon Panetta, a White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration who also knows Kelly well.
That is true in every White House, but may well be even more true in the Trump White House, where the president is known to chafe at aides who
