President Donald Trump will need a chief of staff who will be able to help him fight back against a "subpoena cannon" that House Democrats will use to attack the White House after they take control of the chamber next year, and who will work toward his re-election in 2020, David Bossie, who is believed to be on the short list for the job, said Tuesday.
But Bossie, the head of the conservative advocacy group Citizens United who served at one time as Trump's deputy campaign manager, would not speculate to Fox News' "Fox and Friends" if that will be him.
The ideal candidate to replace outgoing Chief of Staff John Kelly will be a "somebody's who's going to understand what the House is going to do to him and the White House staff, and trying to drag them into a legal process and an investigative process that will slow down the success of this White House, somebody who can stop that from happening," said Bossie.
He confirmed he will have lunch Friday with Trump and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who is also believed to be on Trump's short list, and he knows Trump will do an "incredibly methodical job" picking out his next chief of staff.
"It is a humbling thing to be on a list," said Bossie. "Whether the people take the list seriously or whether that is actually a serious list of people the president is considering I have no idea. But the folks on it are all friends of mine...I know that the president is going to pick the right person, no matter who it is."
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