White House chief of staff Welles resigns British media: Trump angrily scolded her for election defeat

(Central News Agency, Washington, 6th Comprehensive Foreign News Report) U.S. President Trump announced today that White House Chief of Staff Wells will be replaced by Deputy Chief of Staff Miller. She became the first senior staff member to leave the post after the Republican Party lost the midterm election. British media revealed that Trump severely rebuked her for the Republican Party's disastrous midterm election defeat.

The British Daily Mail reported, citing four people familiar with the matter, that Donald Trump scolded Chief of Staff Susie Wiles at a meeting attended by other staff on the 5th over the disastrous defeat of the Republican Party. Wells resigned that evening, and her replacement, current deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, will take office on the 9th.

Trump announced on the social platform "Truth Social" on the 6th that Miller would take over, saying that Wells had performed outstandingly and that she would be transferred to the Trump Political Operation. Wells later posted that the 6th was her last day in the White House, and said that serving Trump in the White House was the honor of a lifetime.

The report quoted a source close to the president as saying: "Trump was furious with her." A White House source said that Trump continued to yell at her over the election loss until she left the room; two other sources described the situation as more intense, saying that Trump directly kicked her out of the meeting, and another person familiar with the matter said: "He told her to leave."

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino was present at the time, as was Wells' close confidant Morgan Dewitt-Snow, who is in charge of the White House Personnel Office. One source said DeWitt-Snow left the meeting looking flustered and, instead of returning to her desk, headed elsewhere in the West Wing to be with Welles.

However, a White House official denied that Trump ever raised his voice at Wells, saying: "He would never yell at Wells."

Looking back on the night of the election (3rd), Trump watched in his private residence as the House of Representatives and the Senate fell into the hands of the Democrats one after another. He was silent for almost the entire process, with Wells sitting next to him. Donors and senior White House officials named her, but she remained the only one who remained with Trump.

Another source said that Wells had been warned that he was about to be fired and went to meet with Trump on the evening of the 5th to resign before Trump said anything. A White House official said that Trump did not accept her resignation immediately and only told her that they would talk later. She still had no reply until the morning of the 6th. Wells walked into the Oval Office again and told Trump that the matter had to be settled.

Wells had already planned to leave after the midterm elections, and the Daily Mail reported this summer that she was quietly planning her departure. Two sources said she originally asked to arrange a handover period and stay in office until February next year, but Trump was unwilling to wait that long, so her last working day was scheduled for today. "She was tired and didn't want to continue fighting," the White House official said.

A source close to Trump said that the White House official's statement was a complete lie, and this weekend's schedule is proof. He said that Wells was originally scheduled to hold an off-site event at Camp David on the 7th, but Trump was in Florida that day. The invitees included White House officials and staff loyal to Wells.

Two sources told the Daily Mail that the event was nominally to discuss how she could get through the coming week and retain power. The event was first postponed and now cancelled.

According to another report, three sources said that after the election, Wells' allies tried to blame War Secretary Pete Hegseth for the Republican defeat, saying that the war in Iran he led had driven up the cost of living.

A source close to Trump said that Trump has repeatedly heard from close confidants in recent days that Wells' team released materials to the media to attack Hegseth in order to divert attention from the outside world. "I think eventually enough people talked to him and he got very angry," the source said. A senior Pentagon official said Wells wanted to force Hegseth out to deflect blame for the midterm election defeat.

A source familiar with internal discussions said Wells internally advocated for narrowing the scope of deportations to only those convicted or wanted for violent crimes. Wells also reportedly told colleagues that mass deportations were costing Republicans votes.

Miller, 41, has followed Trump since the 2016 election and is also a promoter of the government's tough immigration policies. "I don't think there's anyone further to the right on immigration than Miller, and the people who are responsible for deportation are going to be excited," a State Department official said.