Republicans TRASH Trump's new chief of staff

Trump announced Friday that his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is out. Stephen Miller takes over Monday.

Trump told reporters he “wanted to make a change.” ABC News reports he privately blamed Wiles for Tuesday’s losses. She submitted her resignation Thursday night.

In October, Trump said, “Susie is here, and she’s going to be here for a long time.”

Miller, the architect of the deportation crackdown that Republicans themselves now blame for the wipeout, said he was “honored beyond words.”

His own party is less honored.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman called it a “Horrible decision.” Rep. Don Bacon said Miller had “greatly hurt the administration and cost us many seats on Tuesday.”

Another House Republican, speaking anonymously to Fox, said “Stephen is a megalomaniac who should have never been given the keys to the Ferrari.” Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis called Miller “the worst of all possible choices” on CNN.

Then there’s what The Atlantic reported Friday. The White House and the Justice Department have discussed arresting journalists to make them give up sources, according to three people familiar with the talks. Two said Wiles pushed back.

Miller “was in favor and insisted that it wouldn’t take long for journalists to give up their sources,” one of them told the magazine. The Justice Department called the report “absolutely false.”

At Mar-a-Lago, Miller pledged Trump “my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment, and my total devotion.”

Four days after losing both chambers of Congress, Trump took to his failing social media Saturday and ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democrats.

He wrote that Democrats are “going around threatening a lot of people, including the Attorney General of the United States, and others, with Impeachment and many other forms of punishment.”

He called it “extortion at the highest level” and said “Threatening letters have been sent to many people, all innocent, from Democrat Political Leaders.” He didn’t say who sent them.

“The imprisonment should be against these EXTORTIONISTS, and Republicans should get smart, fast!” he wrote.

He singled out Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. Slotkin answered on X that Trump had his new chief of staff draft a tweet “threatening to put me in jail.” She noted the administration already tried to get a grand jury to indict her in February.

The attorney general Trump is protecting is Todd Blanche. Friday night, after Rep. Robert Garcia told Miller to “lawyer up,” Blanche volunteered for the job.

“Stephen Miller has a lawyer. It’s me,” he said.

The White House hasn’t had a press secretary since Karoline Leavitt left at the end of August. Her replacement, Katie Zacharia, lasted five days.

On Saturday, Trump announced he’d offered the job to UFC chief Dana White, whom he called “a violent Fighter and Warrior.”

He asked White to bring several UFC fighters along as “assistants.”

“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,” Trump wrote. “Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other.”

White, who was in London for a boxing event, shared the post on Instagram with a picture of himself at the briefing room podium and the caption “On to the next chapter.”

Then a source familiar with the matter told CNN he isn’t taking the job.

Meanwhile, on the anniversary of Four Seasons Total Landscaping, the internet is convinced he asked the wrong Dana White.

Lauren Boebert is behind in Colorado’s 4th District, and her campaign has started talking about fraud.

As of Friday morning, Democrat Eileen Laubacher led her by 3,069 votes, more than three times the 921-vote margin that would trigger an automatic recount. Saturday’s update pushed her lead to 3,172, by one tracker’s count. The race hasn’t been called.

Boebert’s lawyer, Scott Gessler, said the campaign is “investigating some very unusual voting patterns and expect this election to head to a recount, one way or another.” He didn’t say which patterns.

Gessler is Colorado’s former Republican secretary of state, and he has echoed Trump’s debunked 2020 fraud claims.

Republicans are also scrambling to fix rejected ballots before the Nov. 12 deadline. “Every cured ballot matters in a race this close,” Colorado GOP chair Craig Steiner said.

Boebert moved to this district after holding her old one by 546 votes in 2022. It turns out the new one has voters too.

A Change.org petition titled “House Democrats: CHOOSE A NEW SPEAKER” passed 1 million signatures Saturday.

It calls on every incoming House Democrat “to vote against Hakeem Jeffries for Speaker in January 2027 and choose a different candidate.”

Mark Ruffalo shared it. Axios reports members have been “inundated” with calls, and nearly a half-dozen incoming Democrats from deep-red seats wouldn’t commit to voting for him.

“Democrats have spoken loudly and clearly that they want new leadership,” said Corbin Trent, a former top aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “Unfortunately, too many of the people in Washington aren’t listening.”

Jeffries put himself in the running Wednesday with a letter to every member, and he’s still the favorite.

Over in the Senate, Chuck Schumer’s aides say he has enough commitments to be re-elected majority leader, The New York Times reports.

This is the same Chuck Schumer who never endorsed Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor of his own city. Mamdani won anyway.

Gina Hinojosa won’t be sworn in as governor of Texas until January. She’s already gotten a vote on selling a state park to Elon Musk pulled.

Texas Parks and Wildlife has been considering selling about 1,300 acres of Boca Chica State Park to SpaceX so Musk can expand “Starbase.” The item was on Thursday’s agenda.

It came off at Hinojosa’s request.

“We can have a strong working relationship with Elon Musk and his companies, but it has to be on our terms,” she told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “It cannot be just running over the people of Texas, and that’s what changes now that I will be governor.”

Musk put nearly $200 million into a super PAC backing Ken Paxton and other Texas Republicans.

In Houston, Mayor John Whitmire signed an order telling police to stop calling ICE over immigration paperwork warrants unless the person is arrested for a jailable offense. Austin’s mayor ordered his police department’s rules rewritten too.

“I also do this knowing that elections matter,” Whitmire said.

In Georgia, Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms said Friday she’ll work to repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Democrats flipped the state House, but Republicans kept a thin majority in the state Senate.

“It may not be this session,” she said. “So we’ll begin to have those conversations, and we’ll see if it can be done soon.”