Top Trump Aide Takes Up Temporary Role to Boost GOP in Midterms

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President Donald Trump said his deputy chief of staff James Blair will temporarily leave the White House to help bolster Republican prospects in the upcoming midterm elections.

“James will be taking a short leave of absence to lead the charge from the outside against the Radical Left, Country Destroying Democrats,” Trump said Friday in a social media postBloomberg Terminal. “He will do a fantastic job, and then, after the Election, return again to the White House, so we can finish the job and, KEEP AMERICA GREAT.”