Agreed. And trying to give him benefit of the doubt with General Kelly appointment as well :(. (though I still want Scaramucci back helping Trump in some capacity even if unofficially — and I want the leaks STOPPED)
But my main reason for giving McMasters benefit of the doubt has to do with the success of President Trump’s foreign trips to Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican and then to Poland around the time of G20. I believe McMaster was the architect of the first trip to the sight of the foundations of the 3 world religions. I thought it was brilliant!
Please excuse typos.
In July, Palestinian terrorists armed with rifles left the al-Aqsa mosque compound and assassinated two Israeli police officers. Afterward, Israeli security forces installed metal detectors outside the Jerusalem mosque for protection. McMaster, however, didn’t see it that way. He viewed the security measures as “just another excuse by the Israelis to repress the Arabs,” a senior defense official tells CR.
A senior West Wing official explained McMaster’s anti-Israel posture further:
“In advance of the president’s trip to Israel, there was a lot of desire from within the Trump administration for [Israeli PM Benjamin] Netanyahu to join the president at the Western Wall. McMaster didn’t even want [Trump] to go to the Western Wall. He only wanted the president to visit the Holocaust Museum.”
A deal was ultimately cut, and the president visited the Western Wall — but without Netanyahu.
In May, while briefing reporters, McMaster infamously refused to recognize that the Western Wall (one of the holiest sites in Judaism) was part of Israel.
Was it also “brilliant” that McMaster forbid BiBi from going to the Wailing Wall with our president, as well?
All Scaramucci was good for was shaking Reince Preibus off that last brittle branch he had been clinging to since January. I wish Sean Spicer had stayed. Sean gave it his all, and right on the Front Lines, trading barbs with those fake reporters. And still the president wasn’t happy.
Scaramucci is too much of a distracting clown to be good for much else. He seemed rather unhinged. The kind of person I could imaging threatening to shoot a pistol into the Oval Office ceiling just to scare a RINO into supporting a bill.
SNL is most likely so very disappointed that he already left the administration. They would have had numerous skits based on this quirky character.
McMaster and his crew have been among the leakers.
Let’s face it....Scar was a mistake.