"'It reached a fever pitch of the president complaining about Reince to all of us,' said one senior White House official ... 'If we heard it once, we heard it 20 times in the last week -- this erosion of confidence. The word was 'weak' -- 'weak,' 'weak,' 'weak.' 'Can't get it done.' ... Trump's demeaning of Priebus came through in other ways, too. At one point, during a meeting in the Oval Office, a fly began buzzing overhead, distracting the president. As the fly continued to circle, Trump summoned his chief of staff and tasked him with killing the insect, according to someone familiar with the incident. (The West Wing has a regular fly problem.) ...
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