memeorandum: Anthony Scaramucci Executive Producing HBO Movie While in White House (Paul Bond/Hollywood Reporter)

4:35 PM ET, July 29, 2017

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Priebus Wasn't the Problem — Trump names a new chief of staff but will he listen to John Kelly?

Niall Stanage / The Hill:

The Memo: GOP in shock over White House drama — Republicans are in shock this weekend as the chaos around the Trump White House reaches a new intensity. — Recent days have brought a deluge of drama. — Embattled chief of staff Reince Priebus was ousted, in news that broke late Friday afternoon.

Discussion: Raw Story and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Andrew deGrandpre / Washington Post:

John Kelly, Trump's new chief of staff, 'won't suffer idiots and fools' — Twelve days after Donald Trump's election victory, the president-elect asked John Kelly to meet with him at the stately Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., to discuss the roles of secretaries of State and Homeland Security.

Discussion: Political Wire, Politico, neo-neocon, The Week and Business Insider

Brandon Carter / The Hill:

Trump once summoned Priebus to kill a fly in Oval Office: report — President Trump reportedly once summoned former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus to kill a fly in the Oval Office during a meeting, according to a Friday report. — A source told The Washington Post that once during …

Discussion: Mediaite, New York Post, New York Times, The Guardian, Business Insider, Raw Story, No More Mister Nice Blog, Vox, RedState, Politicus USA, Mashable, Washington Post, Political Wire, New York Magazine and TalkLeft, more at Mediagazer »

Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:

Anthony Scaramucci Executive Producing HBO Movie While in White House — The communications director for Donald Trump's White House will have a credit on a movie about disgraced football coach Joe Paterno starring Al Pacino. — Anthony Scaramucci seems plenty busy with his duties …

Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story, Mediaite and Page Six

Wall Street Journal:

Priebus Wasn't the Problem — Trump names a new chief of staff but will he listen to John Kelly? — FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump congratulates White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus during a swearing in ceremony for senior staff at the White House in Washington, U.S. January 22, 2017.

Discussion: Hullabaloo

Fox News:

If Kelly and Trump can become a real team, it will be a game changer — I first met then-Lt. Col. John Kelly when he was the Marine Corps liaison to the House of Representatives, and I was speaker of the House. We traveled together on a number of overseas trips.

Mike Allen / Axios:

Reince's final humiliation — White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told me last weekend that the arrival of Anthony Scaramucci would mean “a fresh start” for the West Wing. This wasn't what he had in mind. — Landing in the rain at Andrews Air Force Base, Trump tweeted that his new chief …

Discussion: Politico, ABC News, Mashable and FiveThirtyEight

Sam Levine / HuffPost:
Trump Was Reportedly Upset Reince Priebus Didn't Fight Back Against Anthony Scaramucci

Discussion: IJR

Associated Press: Trump's six-month stall sparks a White House shake-up

Eliana Johnson / Politico:
Inside the end of the Priebus era

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:
John Kelly, New Chief of Staff, Is Seen as Beacon of Discipline

Discussion: TheBlaze, The Nation, Conservative News Today, New York Post, Daily Kos, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, FOX6Now.com, Outside the Beltway, IJR, Fox News, AOL, ABC News and Daily Wire

John Bowden / The Hill:
Sessions: Officials holding briefing next week on intel leaks

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Brandon Carter / The Hill:
Trump unhappy with Priebus for not ‘returning fire’ at Scaramucci: report

Discussion: Axios, Power Line, CNBC, Wall Street Journal and RedState

Rachael Bade / Politico:

As Trump steams, Senate Republicans consider new repeal effort — Senate Republicans' party-line attempts to repeal Obamacare aren't dead just yet — at least not if President Donald Trump has anything to say about it. — Trump, increasingly impatient with the long-stalled repeal effort …

Discussion: Politicus USA

IACP Blog:

Statement from the International Association of Chiefs of Police on Police Use of Force — Managing use of force is one of the most difficult challenges faced by law enforcement agencies. The ability of law enforcement officers to enforce the law, protect the public, and guard their own safety …

Discussion: IJR and The Daily Caller

Julia Manchester / The Hill:

Trump threatens to end ObamaCare payments unless repeal passes — President Trump on Saturday threatened to end key payments to insurance companies made under Obamacare if a repeal and replace bill is not passed. — “After seven years of ‘talking’ Repeal & Replace, the people of our great country …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, STAT, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Politicus USA, The Gateway Pundit and The Week

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Trump Urges End of Filibuster to Pass Health Bill, Which Failed Without It — Despite naming a chief of staff who is expected to bring a new sense of discipline to the White House, President Trump resorted to his old Twitter playbook on Saturday, attacking Senate Republicans who he said …

Discussion: Washington Post, Vox, New York Magazine, Outside the Beltway, Roll Call, Conservative News Today, ThinkProgress, The Week, Mediaite, TheBlaze, Politicus USA, RedState, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, The Daily Caller, Shareblue and Business Insider

Avik Roy / National Review:
For Conservatives, Health-Care Reform Is Not Optional

Discussion: bradford-delong.com and CNBC

Peter Suderman / Hit & Run:
On Obamacare, Republicans Achieved Nothing

Discussion: CNBC

ExpressVPN:

Apple removes VPN Apps from China App Store — ExpressVPN - Tortola, British Virgin Islands — We received notification from Apple today, July 29, 2017, at roughly 04:00 GMT, that the ExpressVPN iOS app was removed from the China App Store. Our preliminary research indicates that all major VPN apps for iOS have been removed.

Discussion: Mashable and The Verge, more at Techmeme »

Paul Mozur / New York Times:
Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship

Discussion: Instapundit and Clayton Cramer

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers — There's more than bank fraud going on here. — In Washington, it's never about what they tell you it's about. So take this to the bank: The case of Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz's mysterious Pakistani IT guy, is not about bank fraud.

Discussion: Red Alert Politics and New York Times

Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:

What Is “Good Trolling?” — I first met Stephen Miller on Twitter in the relatively gentle days of 2012, when he called me a “ridiculous hack” in the course of criticizing our coverage of Mitt Romney. — Miller, who writes under the name @redsteeze and isn't to be confused …

Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:

Russia's Villages, and Their Way of Life, Are ‘Melting Away’ — BARUTA, Russia — With its winding dirt lanes framed by lilacs, quaint wooden houses and graceful onion-domed church, the tiny farming hamlet of Baruta was once a veritable postcard of Russian bucolic bliss. — No longer.