■ In this week’s Inner Loop:We find out which cabinet officials are in the worst standing with the president, and Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost seems to be playing a role.
In President Donald Trump’s first term, the revolving door in his cabinet was spinning fast enough to churn butter.
This time around, there have been no major departures or any substantial chatter around replacements so far. “I don’t think anyone is at imminent risk” of losing their job, a former Trump administration official from the first term tells me. “It’s been a much tighter ship, and that’s a result of the fact that, in 2016, they didn’t expect to win.”
There’s still very much a hot seat in Trump 2.0. It just happens to be more evenly shared...
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