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Tom Baxter: Ayers’ resignation is a bad sign about the Trump administration

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Nick Ayers, center, arrives for a news conference with President Donald Trump and Republican congressmen after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6.

Nick Ayers — AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Nick Ayers, center, arrives for a news conference with President Donald Trump and Republican congressmen after participating in a Congressional Republican Leadership Retreat at Camp David, Md., Saturday, Jan. 6.

When someone who has gone as far and as fast as Nick Ayers slams his foot on the brakes and says “whoa,” there’s something big and scary in the road ahead.