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Bigger than Vindman: Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC.....
washingtonexaminer ^ | 2/10/2020 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 02/10/2020 7:39:24 AM PST by caww

President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.

Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.

Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior president’s had a much smaller NSC team.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; burisma; deepstate; ericciaramella; moles; nsc; obama; obamaholdovers; trumpnsc; ukraine; yourefired
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To: GOPJ; Grampa Dave; TADSLOS; poconopundit

Trump knew full well who the holdovers were and where they were......even before setting foot inside the WH.

My sense is he left them there for a good reason......
<><> who did they talk to?
<><> who was contacting them?
<><> what agencies were they in touch with?

.....and so on, and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum......


61 posted on 02/10/2020 8:05:39 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: caww

That’s the whistleblower. Second row from the back. Like 4th from the right.


62 posted on 02/10/2020 8:05:46 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: nikos1121

totalitarian state was installed.
stalin would have been impressed, especially if he had the same technology!


63 posted on 02/10/2020 8:06:23 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: caww

Very good news.

Now get to the rotten Obama holdover Pentagon Colonels, Generals and Admirals.


64 posted on 02/10/2020 8:06:52 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: caww

Three years late, but better late than never.


65 posted on 02/10/2020 8:06:59 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Zathras

Water pollution


66 posted on 02/10/2020 8:07:00 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: unixfox

Good explanation and seems plausable and reasonable.


67 posted on 02/10/2020 8:07:11 AM PST by frogjerk (We are conservatives. Not libertarians, not "fiscal conservatives", not moderates)
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To: caww

https://images.app.goo.gl/jt5kM2thhNZSeVsj9


68 posted on 02/10/2020 8:07:34 AM PST by blackdog (Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
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To: caww
Lot of damage done by these subversive 💩 piles.😳
69 posted on 02/10/2020 8:09:07 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Roccus; Lurkinanloomin

Those “others” he relied on were NOT rats.....they were Republicans...and we see how THAT has been working for him.

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Oh I know that & totally agree with you. I just couldn’t dredge my memory enough to name names other than Reince. See comment 55 - does a better job with details than I did.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3815206/posts?page=55#55


70 posted on 02/10/2020 8:09:42 AM PST by Qiviut (President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA! Nasty Nan is a walking obscenity.)
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To: akalinin

Our President Trump learned his enemies’ tactics the hard way.

But, he HAS learned and is still learning.

Trump has become karma.


71 posted on 02/10/2020 8:10:57 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: PGR88
Why did he need to wait 3 years?

(1) Hired incompetent, Deep State Chief of Staff Reince Priebus

(2) Mike Flynn was targeted for destruction from Day 1, and Trump was boxed in by Senate GOP traitors into hiring Deep State scumbag McMaster, and could not lay a finger on the NSC.

72 posted on 02/10/2020 8:13:11 AM PST by montag813
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To: unixfox

“His advisers should have been better at communicating that to him. Unfortunately most of them were also deep staters.”

I said from the start President Trump should hire Freepers for all positions. There are many skilled people here who would have been just as capable job-wise as those traitors but would have been loyal to the President.


73 posted on 02/10/2020 8:15:34 AM PST by Cedar
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To: Ann Archy

“WHERE DID THEY GO TO???”

Great follow-up question.

Hopefully simply downsizing.

Or, spread them among American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.


74 posted on 02/10/2020 8:15:54 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: caww

Bump!


75 posted on 02/10/2020 8:16:12 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: silverleaf
puffed up toads like that ambitious Army 0-5 Vindman

Funny. I suppose when he was removed they had to gingerly pick him at arms length to avoid ejected fluids.

76 posted on 02/10/2020 8:16:27 AM PST by Tellurian (DeMullahkRats would smugly tell even God "you didn't build that".)
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To: Signalman

Yep. The worst moves Trump has made have come from humoring Ivanka. He put Jared in charge of staffing during the transition. (Jared promptly chucked all the work Christie had done on it, while bringing in compromised Israeli stooges to “vet” all hiring.) He also listened to Ivanka in trying to reconcile and go along with the Establishment, which of course about did him in.

I remember Roger Stone sounding the alarm on this back during the transition. He made the good point that there were plenty of truly Trump loyal state-level operatives who could have been brought in instead. (As the Clintons approached it.)


77 posted on 02/10/2020 8:17:20 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Only some of them should be heads on poles, but all of them had to go.

78 posted on 02/10/2020 8:17:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: caww

Yay!


79 posted on 02/10/2020 8:17:59 AM PST by Eleutheria5 ("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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To: lewislynn

Standards, bub.


80 posted on 02/10/2020 8:18:05 AM PST by Dahoser (Not separation of church and state, but separation of media and state.)
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