Today he fired his attorney general, Jeff Sessions—by having chief of staff John Kelly call him on the phone. Throughout his presidency Trump has ducked the hard work of going face-to-face with even the highest-level direct reports he wanted out. He had John Kelly fire Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. He fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by tweet, after having Kelly warn Tillerson to keep an eye on his Twitter feed. Deputy FBI director John McCabe learned he was out from the news media.

Source: Forbes November 07, 2018 21:22 UTC