Katrina Pierson, the former presidential campaign spokesman to Donald Trump who played a prominent role in the campaign but did not take a White House job, publicly called Monday for a staff shake-up at the White House.
“I think there should be a shake-up at the White House starting at the very top,” Pierson said on Fox News, an apparent call for chief of staff Reince Priebus to be replaced.
“What is happening today, especially with all of these leaks, no one’s been held accountable,” she said. “And that is the chief of staff’s responsibility, and I believe that needs to be addressed.”
Both Pierson and Priebus come from different sides of the Trump coalition: Priebus served as chairman of the Republican National Committee until joining the administration; Pierson is a former Tea Party activist who unsuccessfully challenged Texas Rep. Pete Sessions in the Republican primary in 2014.
After the election, it was reported Pierson had been offered the role of deputy press secretary at the White House but turned it down. “I made a personal decision to remain on the outside for now. I have plenty of time to serve,” Pierson told the Daily Beast at the time.
Fox host Sandra Smith asked Pierson about rumors that former Trump campaign aides Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie — who also did not follow Trump to the White House — could take new roles for Trump. Pierson said, “of course he would bring in people that were with him from the beginning.”
Trump, who spent the last week on a foreign trip, arrived back in Washington over the weekend.
