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Ang4MohTrump · Oct 25, 2018

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The Secret Service had to break up a fight between Kelly and Lewandowski in February
John Kelly reportedly grabbed Corey Lewandowski by the collar and tried to push him against a wall.

By Stavros Agorakis Oct 23, 2018, 2:10pm EDT

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Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski walks away from the US Capitol. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
The first rule of West Wing fight club: You do not talk about fight club — until several months later.
The New York Times, citing half a dozen sources, reported that an altercation in February between White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Corey Lewandowski turned physical, requiring the Secret Service to intervene in the episode outside the Oval Office.
According to Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers, the near-brawl happened after a joint meeting between the men and President Trump. After a shouting match, Kelly grabbed Lewandowski by his collar and tried to push him against a wall. Lewandowski did not get physical, and the two men agreed to move on after Secret Service agents appeared on the scene.
The event occurred the day that families of the Parkland high school shooting victims were invited to the White House. Lewandowski, who served as Trump’s first campaign manager, had a scheduled meeting in the Oval Office shortly after, during which Kelly accused him of profiting off the president through his Super PAC contract and of making negative remarks about Kelly on national television.
The brawl is a result of both Kelly and Lewandowski’s fiery temperaments and the generally chaotic atmosphere that Trump allows within his administration.
Kelly has a reputation for being confrontational. As Haberman and Rogers point out, he had a recent shouting match with National Security Adviser John Bolton that involved yelling profanities. Last year, he got into a physical scuffle with a Chinese official who “was seeking access to the nuclear football, the briefcase that includes the president’s mobile nuclear-missile command center,” according to the Wall Street Journal at the time.
Lewandowski made national headlines in the spring of 2016 when security camera video showed him yanking a Breitbart reporter by the arm as she tried to ask Trump a question following a news conference in Florida. Trump defended his then-campaign manager in the aftermath of the event, and opted to shift the blame to the reporter.
“She bolts into the picture, she hits me on the arm and then he goes by and maybe he touched her a little bit,” Trump said at a Wisconsin rally. “It was almost like he was trying to keep her off me, like he was trying to help her.”
Lewandowski was charged with one count of simple battery but was not prosecuted. He was eventually fired from Trump’s campaign team but remained in the president’s orbit: In May 2018, he joined a PAC for Vice President Mike Pence. The latest report indicates that even before that, he’d had at least one memorable Oval Office meeting.

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Ang4MohTrump · Oct 25, 2018

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John Kelly nearly got into a 'fistfight' in the Oval Office with ICE official invited by President Trump: Woodward

By Chris Sommerfeldt

Sep 07, 2018 | 6:00 AM

President Trump feared a "fistfight" would break out in the Oval Office, according to Bob Woodward's new book.

John Kelly apparently doesn’t pull his punches.

The combative White House chief of staff erupted in an expletive-ridden rant and nearly got into a “fistfight” after President Trump invited an immigration hawk to the Oval Office whom Kelly had butted heads with while at the Department of Homeland Security, according to Bob Woodward’s new book.

“I can’t believe you’d let some f--king guy like this into the Oval Office,” Kelly shouted at Trump after strolling into the historic room in November 2017 to find Chris Crane, the head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement union, according to Woodward’s forthcoming book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News.

Internal memo urges Oval Office visitors to not take Trump's 'on-the-fly' decisions seriously: Woodward's book »

Trump had invited Crane without informing Kelly after catching him on TV complaining that the President had let him and other ICE agents down by not inviting them to the White House.

After speaking his mind to Crane, Kelly threatened to resign and stormed out of the Oval Office, according to Woodward.

Woodward writes Trump later told aides he thought Kelly and Crane were going to get into a “fistfight.”

A White House spokeswoman did not return a request for comment. Spokespeople for Crane did not respond to emailed questions.

Before becoming Trump’s chief of staff, Kelly served as the secretary of Homeland Security, a role that involves overseeing ICE and other agencies.

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Crane clashed with Kelly after he blocked ICE from executing a hard-line crackdown on certain immigration violations.

Kelly has reportedly been quarreling with Trump for months and is rumored to be on his way out of the White House.

Woodward’s book, which is based on numerous interviews with senior administration officials, describes Trump as an “idiot” who doesn’t know what he’s doing or how government works. Echoing concerns raised in multiple other tell-all books about Trump, Woodward’s account questions whether the President is mentally fit to occupy the highest office of the land.

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Trump aide in 'physical altercation' with president's chief of staff John Kelly outside Oval Office

The secret service are said to have had to break up the fight between Mr Kelly and Corey Lewandowski

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President Trump's informal adviser Corey Lewandowski (pictured) was grabbed at the scruff of the neck by White House staff chief John F. Kelly (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) ( AP )

An argument in February between White House chief of staff John F. Kelly and Corey Lewandowski, an informal adviser to President Donald Trump, turned into a physical altercation that required Secret Service intervention just outside the Oval Office, according to a half-dozen people familiar with the events.

The episode, details of which have not been previously reported, is the latest illustration of the often chaotic atmosphere Trump is willing to tolerate in the White House as well as a reflection of the degree to which Kelly’s temper can be provoked.

The near brawl — during which Kelly grabbed Lewandowski by the collar and tried to have him ejected from the West Wing — came at a time when the chief of staff was facing uncertainty about how long Trump would keep him in his job. A guessing game over his departure has coloured his tenure since.
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Trump tries to fire John Kelly 'but Kelly ignores him', says official

Kelly, a retired four-star Marine Corps general, was widely hailed as the lone grown-up who could corral a staff full of bombastic and competing personalities when he was appointed in summer 2017. But Kelly has shown little inclination to curb his own instinct for confrontation, from scuffling with a Chinese official during a visit to Beijing in 2017 to last week’s profanity-laced shouting match with national security adviser John R. Bolton after a meeting with the president.

White House officials declined to comment for this article. Lewandowski did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

But the altercation 21 February was among the ugliest known to have taken place in a West Wing that has been characterised by constant drama and heated skirmishes — all forms of behaviour that the president has long tolerated among his aides.

While Kelly’s initial appointment was widely seen as a move to restore a sense of order, he has instead been at the centre of a succession of conflicts, from his contradictory statements about former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who left after previous allegations of domestic violence were made public, to his heated interactions with other aides.

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Anthony Scaramucci, who has written a book about being Trump’s communications director for 11 days until Kelly fired him after the release of a recording of his own profanity-laced call with a reporter, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that Kelly had “hurt the morale inside the place.”

“And he’s hurt the president. And he has hissy fits,” Scaramucci said, adding that “he’s demonstrating his personality now the way he really is.”

Kelly’s defenders argue that he has been effective at ridding the White House of problematic personalities, such as Omarosa Manigault Newman, and that he has put in place a degree of order that did not exist before his arrival, despite the challenges of the work environment that Trump creates. And a person who witnessed the exchange between Kelly and Bolton last week insisted there was never a shouting match as described in many accounts.

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta defended Kelly, who served as his senior military assistant when he was at the Pentagon, as a “fine person” and a “good Marine” who would “walk off a cliff” for people who earned his loyalty.
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But, Panetta said, “there’s no question that the level of frustration must be rising if he’s getting into shouting matches and starting to really take on other people.”

“That doesn’t happen unless he is totally frustrated,” Panetta continued.

On the day Kelly grabbed Lewandowski, families of the shooting victims from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were streaming into the White House for an event with the president in the East Room. Trump had both men in his office, according to those briefed on the event. Lewandowski, the president’s first campaign manager, was there for a previously scheduled appointment.

Kelly criticised Lewandowski to Trump for making so much money off the president in the form of his contract with the super PAC supporting the president’s re-election. Kelly also expressed his anger that Lewandowski had been criticising him on television for his handling of the security clearance controversy related to Porter.

Trump tries to fire John Kelly 'but Kelly just ignores him', White House official says

At some point, Trump took a phone call, and both men left the room, those briefed on the episode said.

As Kelly walked toward a hallway leading back to his office, he called to someone to remove Lewandowski from the building. The two then began arguing, with Lewandowski speaking loudly. Kelly grabbed Lewandowski by his collar, trying to push him against a wall, according to a person with direct knowledge of the episode.

Lewandowski did not get physical in response, according to multiple people familiar with the episode. But Secret Service agents were called in. Ultimately, the two men agreed to move on, those briefed on the episode said.

Still, people in the West Wing who learned at the time what had happened were stunned.
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In the months since the altercation, Lewandowski has travelled frequently with Trump aboard Air Force One to his political rallies and has continued to meet frequently with the president in the White House, though West Wing aides now try to make sure he steers clear of Kelly’s corner of the West Wing.

He is also writing a book, “Trump’s Enemies: How the Deep State Is Undermining the Presidency,” which is scheduled to be published in the weeks after the midterm election and which some in Trump’s circle fear will take swipes at some of his aides.

On the other hand, Kelly, who is called “the general” or “the chief” by his allies inside the West Wing, is widely seen as a diminished presence among the president’s advisers. Though Kelly has repeatedly said he expresses his honest opinions to Trump, he has shown little inclination or ability to curb some of the president’s impulses.

He is not the first chief of staff to struggle with his image inside and outside the White House: Administration observers compare Kelly to Donald T. Regan, President Ronald Reagan’s former chief of staff, who amassed power in the West Wing only to squander it in clashes with other advisers and the president’s wife.

With his legacy in mind, Kelly tends carefully to his press coverage, and keeps his eye on those he considers to be friendly to him in print and on the broader White House staff, according to multiple current and former aides. The president, who publicly maintains that his West Wing runs like a well-oiled machine, recently invited a reporter — along with his vice president, secretary of state and Kelly — into the Oval Office to show just how much faith he has in his chief of staff.

“There is, to the best of my knowledge, no chaos in this building,” Kelly said during that interview. “We’ve gotten rid of a few bad actors, but everyone works very, very well together.”

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In July, Kelly told aides that Trump had asked him to stay on in his role until 2020, but reports of his conflicts with other staff members have continually raised questions about how long he will last. Even Trump has privately indicated to people that he was sceptical that Kelly would remain that long.

“I think John does this out of loyalty to the country,” Panetta said, “and the hope that, somehow, for all of the difficulty that he’s confronting, that somehow he’s serving a purpose.”

The president, for his part, has shown a certain reverence for men willing to engage in physical scuffles. In fall 2017, when Kelly was newly in his role, his willingness to engage angrily in meetings with then-national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster thrilled Trump. The president, who did not like McMaster, gleefully told people about the skirmishes between the two men for weeks, saying it showed how tough Kelly was, a person familiar with the discussions said.

And The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Kelly got into a physical altercation with a Chinese official trying to gain access to the nuclear football, which is used to authorise a nuclear attack, during Trump’s trip there last year. Axios had reported the story several months ago, but officials had denied it.

But recently, Kelly has gone from enjoying Trump’s public praise — “He has been a true star of my Administration,” the president said of Kelly in summer 2017 — to someone often sidelined by a president who believes he is his own best chief of staff.

Kelly, meanwhile, has chosen to stay in the role despite Trump’s clear interest in keeping Lewandowski around in some fashion.

“I think Trump has decided it’s really a bad marriage,” said Chris Whipple, author of “The Gatekeepers,” a history of White House chiefs of staff, “that he has decided to muddle through.”

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Ang4MohTrump · Oct 25, 2018

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6306571/John-Kelly-grabbed-Corey-Lewandowski-collar.html

John Kelly grabbed Corey Lewandowski by the collar and pushed him against a wall outside the Oval Office before the Secret Service stepped in to break up the near brawl

John Kelly and Corey Lewandowski are said to have gotten into a near first fight outside the Oval Office in February of 2018
Spat began inside the Oval Office in front of Trump then moved outside
Kelly is said to have grabbed Lewandowski's collar and pushed him against a wall
Secret Service agents were called before the two men separated
Neither man has commented but former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci said on Fox News: 'Yeah of course the story took place'

By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline and Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent For Dailymail.com
Published: 10:56 BST, 23 October 2018 | Updated: 15:58 BST, 23 October 2018

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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly nearly got into a fist fight with an informal adviser to President Trump outside the Oval Office.
Kelly, a retired four-star Marine General, is said to have grabbed Corey Lewandowski by the collar and pushed him against a wall during an altercation in February.
Secret Service agents had to be called before the two men separated, with Kelly demanding that Lewandowski be removed from the West Wing, the New York Times reported.

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John Kelly grabbed Corey Lewandowski by the collar, pushed him against a wall, and only stopped when Secret Service agents intervened, it is reported
The fight followed an argument that started inside the Oval Office in front of the president, the New York Times reported.
Kelly criticized Lewandowski in front of Trump over the amount of money he was making from a super PAC campaigning for the president's re-election.
He also took issue with Lewandowski's public attacks on him amid the Rob Porter security clearance controversy.
Porter was fired and questions were raised over how he was granted interim security clearance after two of his ex-wives told DailyMail.com that he had abused them.
When Trump had to take a phone call, the men moved into the hallway, and Kelly called out for Lewandowski to be removed from the building, sources told the Times.
The two then resumed arguing, with Lewandowski shouting, before Kelly grabbed him by the collar and attempted to push him against a wall, they said.
Secret Service agents are said to have arrived before the two men agreed to move along.
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The fight reportedly took place on Feb. 21. The very same day, the president hosted families of the Parkland shooting victims at the White House.
Sources close to the two men have indicated publicly that the fight happened, although neither the White House nor Lewandowski, the president's first campaign manager, have commented.
Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci told Fox News on Tuesday morning: 'Yeah of course the story took place.'
Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary who was once Kelly's boss at the Pentagon, says he doesn't doubt that it happened, either.
'There’s no question that the level of frustration must be rising if he’s getting into shouting matches and starting to really take on other people,' Panetta told the Times.
Scaramucci has said overtly that he believes Trump needs to give Kelly the boot - and not because he fired him last summer less than a month into the position.
'I just think he's ill-suited for the job. I'm very confident that it happened,' he said on Fox & Friends. 'So let's not lie about it.'
The hedge fund owner and campaign bundler said: 'You can't be grabbing people by the collar or cursing off the national security adviser.'

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Kelly had been criticizing Lewandowski to Trump over his links to a super PAC and was angry that Lewandowski was attacking him over the Rob Porter security clearance scandal
The lasting repercussions of the fight have been that whenever Lewandowski visits the White House now, he is kept away from Kelly's office, the Times reported.
It is said to have taken place during a time rumors were swirling that Kelly would be sacked, just six months after his appointment, over his handling of the Porter fiasco.
Lewandowski, a Trump confidant who is working this election cycle with the vice president, is the second person to emerge in the last week who Kelly reportedly had a West Wing yelling match with.
The fight follows reports Kelly also clashed with National Security Adviser John Bolton during a meeting with Trump over the soaring number of southern border crossings when the argument happened, CNN reported.
Bolton favored a hard-line approach to dealing with the migrants, and Trump agreed with him.
While making his point, Bolton allegedly accused Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen of failing to do her job.
Nielsen used to serve as Kelly's deputy when he was in charge of DHS, and he pushed internally for her to get his job.
Voices were raised sufficiently during the altercation to startle aides working elsewhere in the White House, reports on the fight that first surfaced in a Bloomberg article said.
However, the same sources said the argument was a simple 'falling out' and that nobody's job had be threatened by the fight.

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