memeorandum: Trump threatens to end ObamaCare payments unless repeal passes (Julia Manchester/The Hill)

4:10 PM ET, July 29, 2017

Top Items:

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

Discussion: The Week

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, 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: No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, Washington Post and Political Wire

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 and New York Magazine

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, 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, CNBC, Power Line, RedState and Wall Street Journal

Washington Post:
Trump names Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as White House chief of staff, ousting Reince Priebus

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 and The Week

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

Paul Mozur / New York Times:

Apple Removes Apps From China Store That Help Internet Users Evade Censorship — HONG KONG — China appears to have received help on Saturday from an unlikely source in its fight against tools that help users evade its Great Firewall of internet censorship: Apple.

Discussion: Instapundit and Clayton Cramer, more at Techmeme »

ExpressVPN:
Apple removes VPN Apps from China App Store

Discussion: Mashable and The Verge

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 and Washington Post

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 …

Avik Roy / National Review:

For Conservatives, Health-Care Reform Is Not Optional — The proximate reason, of course, for the failure of the GOP effort to repeal and replace Obamacare is that moderate Republican senators voted against it: in the most recent instance, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain.

Discussion: bradford-delong.com and CNBC

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

Discussion: CNBC

David Mack / BuzzFeed:
Watch The Shocking Moment John McCain Killed The Republican Health Care Bill

Discussion: Liberal Values and Washington Post

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.