Donald Trump: Reince Priebus ‘Doing a Good Job’ Running ‘Fine-Tuned Machine’

President Donald Trump signaled support for his chief of staff Reince Priebus, despite growing concern from allies that he is failing the president.

“This is a fine-tuned machine and Reince happens to be doing a good job,” Trump said during his press conference at the White House. Trump acknowledged, however, that “half” of Priebus’s time was fighting the “lies” in the press. Trump told reporters that the “real story” was the ongoing “illegal leaks” from inside the government.

Some of Trump’s allies are voicing concerns that Priebus is not sufficiently staffing the administration and rooting out Obama’s political appointees in the federal government, according to a report from Breitbart News editor Matthew Boyle. 

Referring again to his chief of staff, Trump said, “I watched him yesterday working so hard to try and get that story proper. And I’m saying ‘here’s my chief of staff,’ a really good guy, did a phenomenal job at RNC. I mean, he won the election, right? We won the presidency … he’s done a great job.”

Trump indicated that Priebus spent most of his time fighting the “fake fires” created by the press.

“They’re not true,” he said, “Isn’t that a shame — because he’d rather be working on healthcare, he’d rather be working on tax reform.”