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Staff John Kelly would be leaving by the end of the year. The announcement follows months of reports that Trump and Kelly were at It has long been expected that Mike Pence's longtime aide Nick Ayers would take over in Kelly's position, but, yesterday, Ayers announced Thank you @realDonaldTrump, @VP, and my great colleagues for the honor to serve our Nation at The White House. I will be departing at the end of the year but will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause. for governor of Indiana and the national chair of his veep campaign in 2016. If Pence has reason to believe he'll be running in 2020, Ayers is more useful out in the field quietly laying that groundwork than as Trump's chief of staff. A number of people responded by positing that Ayers was hightailing it out of the White House because Bob Mueller's investigation is getting 1. Leaving his current job won't protect him from the law. (And he knows that.) Frankly, I think the fact that Ayers is flying the coop now is an indication that he believes none of this stuff will touch him. Leaving the White House won't protect him from legal trouble, but 2. We've heard nothing about the Special Counsel's investigation getting anywhere close to Pence, despite the fact that Pence led the presidential transition, during which much of the collusion being scrutinized took place. (Which is one of the reasons I suspect Pence has been cooperating.) Given that, I've no reason to believe it's gotten close to Ayers, either. It could also, of course, merely be a case of the ambitious Ayers jumping off a sinking ship. That possibility might resonate more strongly with me if it seemed like Pence was sinking with that ship. But, much to my everlasting chagrin, it doesn't. At least not at this day after the appointment of a special counsel, marking the first time a sitting veep has ever done so, it was Nick Ayers, along with Pence's other chief political operative, Marty Obst, who was shopping meets with the veep