{"id":70937,"date":"2020-11-12T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T08:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=70937"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T08:53:15","slug":"joe-biden-appoints-ron-klain-as-white-house-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/joe-biden-appoints-ron-klain-as-white-house-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Appoints Ron Klain As White House Chief Of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Klain, a lawyer with deep experience on Capitol Hill, with advising President Barack Obama and in corporate board rooms, served as Mr. Biden\u2019s chief of staff when he was vice president and has been seen for months as the likeliest choice to manage his team in the White House. Known for steady nerves, he also has a fierce wit, which he has frequently unleashed on President Trump on Twitter.<\/p>\n

He was particularly critical of Mr. Trump\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, having served as the \u201cEbola czar\u201d under Mr. Obama during an outbreak of the deadly disease in his second term. A video of Mr. Klain lecturing Mr. Trump about the pandemic was widely seen during the campaign.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Mr. Biden called Mr. Klain an \u201cinvaluable\u201d adviser, noting in particular the work they did together during the economic crisis in 2009 and the Ebola outbreak in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joseph R. Biden Jr. named Ron Klain, a veteran Democratic operative and a decades-long confidant, to be his White House chief of staff Wednesday evening, the first step toward putting in place his administration\u2019s senior leadership. Mr. Klain, a lawyer with deep experience on Capitol Hill, with advising President Barack Obama and in corporate board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[5671,5697],"class_list":["post-70937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-joe-biden","tag-ron-klain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70939,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70937\/revisions\/70939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}