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In this July 11, 2018, photo, Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), and Director of the Office of Management, listens during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Mick Mulvaney tapped as Trump’s acting chief of staff

By S.A. Miller and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with newly elected governors in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House says no annual Christmas party for the press

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter during a meeting with newly elected governors in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Washington. From left, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, Governor-elect J.B. Pritzker, D-Ill., Governor-elect Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., and Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says search for chief of staff down to five candidates

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

EDITORIAL: The Oval Office slugfest

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

President Trump welcomes governors-elect to White House

Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks as he signs an executive order establishing the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday Dec. 12, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Chief concern: Trump faces big chore in picking top aide

By Matt Mackowiak

Pest Control Officers Gregory Cornes, left, uses a hand trowel to scoop-up dry ice before dropping it directly into rat burrows, as his co-worker Curtis Redman assist, near the Capitol building in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018. Both are from the Department of Health's Rodent Control Division. The nation’s capital is facing a spiraling rat infestation, fueled by mild winters and a human population boom. Washington’s government is struggling to keep pace (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Metaphorical Washington ‘swamp’ overrun by actual vermin

By ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press

In this Oct. 30, 2018, photo, Ivanka Trump, right, departs Air Force One with Jared Kushner in Coraopolis, Pa. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

AP: Ivanka, Kushner could profit from tax break they pushed

By STEPHEN BRAUN and JEFF HORWITZ and BERNARD CONDON - Associated Press

Central American migrants march to the U.S. consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Migrants want U.S. authorities to speed up the asylum application process for members of migrant caravans seeking to enter the U.S., including accepting more applications per day. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Caravan migrants show selves to be bunch of blackmailers

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2017 file photo, Vice President Mike Pence, left, attends a meeting with Georgia opposition leaders in Tbilisi, Georgia. Chief of Staff to the Vice President, Nick Ayers, is right. Ayers, President Donald Trump's top pick to replace John Kelly as chief of staff, is no longer expected to fill that role, according to a White House official. The official says that Trump and Ayers could not agree on Ayers' length of service. (Zurab Kurtsikidze/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: Trump denies that few want chief of staff job

Associated Press

FILE - In a Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, Nick Ayers, right, listens as Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch waits for the arrival of the casket for former President George H.W. Bush to lie in State at the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump's top pick to replace John Kelly as chief of staff, Nick Ayers, is no longer expected to fill that role, according to a White House official. The official says that Trump and Ayers could not agree on Ayers' length of service. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File)

‘Many’ candidates vying for chief of staff job, Trump says

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during the Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Trump: 10 candidates vying for chief of staff post, cries ‘fake news’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Vice President Mike Pence, center, listens as President Donald Trump argues with House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer display partisan divide in White House meeting

By Dave Boyer and S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Former CIA chief, John O. Brennan, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence that he had "encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in the Trump campaign." Special counsel Robert Mueller apparently found no such contacts. (Associated Press/File)

John Brennan’s rip of Donald Trump forgets this one crucial fact

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In a Monday, Dec. 3, 2018 file photo, Nick Ayers, right, listens as Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch waits for the arrival of the casket for former President George H.W. Bush to lie in State at the Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington. President Donald Trump's top pick to replace John Kelly as chief of staff, Nick Ayers, is no longer expected to fill that role, according to a White House official. The official says that Trump and Ayers could not agree on Ayers' length of service. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File)

Trump scrambling to find new White House chief of staff

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

House Oversight Committee member Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC., speaks to members of the media as he arrives for a closed hearing to interview Justice Department official, Bruce G. Ohr, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018. Ohr will be interviewed as part of an investigation into decisions made by the department in 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Mark Meadows says it would be ‘incredible honor’ to serve as White House chief of staff

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Mark Meadows throws hat into ring for White House chief of staff position

The Washington Times

Then-U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis talks to the media in presence of Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev following their meeting at the government building in Skopje, Macedonia, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) ** FILE **

James Mattis last Donald Trump general standing

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump pauses as he talks to media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, for the short trip to Andrews Air Force Base en route to Philadelphia to attend the Army-Navy Football Game. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump cancels Baltimore visit

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump stands in the seating along the Navy sidelines before the second half of a NCAA college football game between Army and Navy, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

AP FACT CHECK: Prosecutors’ filings do not exonerate Trump

By HOPE YEN and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press