President Donald Trump’s New Inner Circle
the shake-up amplifies a pattern of Mr. Trump’s when it comes to filling leadership positions: he places an outsize value on the opinion of those who have served in the U.S. armed forces, even if he lacks a longstanding relationship with them. Mr. Kelly said he had never met the president, nor did he know anyone who knew him, before he was offered the job as homeland security secretary shortly after the 2016 election.
.. Asked if high-profile aides such as Mr. Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner would also report to Mr. Kelly, Ms. Sanders said the new hierarchy “includes everybody at the White House.”