Posted on 08/04/2017 8:45:26 PM PDT by Signalman
After spending 72 hours looking specifically at the motives of those pushing almost identical paragraphs including the catchphrases: “holdovers”, “purging loyalists“, “unfettered access” and “Caroline Glick“; it comes as no surprise to hear the administration perceives the anti-McMasters crowd as having “jumped the shark”… “reached too far”, and “exposed their agenda” etc.
Ironically HR McMaster appears to be safer than ever in his position as National Security Adviser not specifically because of anything he has done, but as an actual outcome of the piranha approach taken by his detractors. The severity of his opposition’s group-think actually exposed the common denominator.
“General McMaster and I are working very well together. He is a good man and very pro–Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”
~ President Donald Trump, August 4th, 2017
R McMaster might not get the Afghanistan policy outcome he prefers, but his position as NSA appears safe; and we won’t have to go to war against Iran to appease his opposition. This looks like a genuine win/win/win. Bannon wins on Afghanistan policy; McMaster wins on Iran policy; America-First wins because we’re not going into another war in either Iran or North Korea. Perfect.
WASHINGTON […] John Kelly, Trump’s new chief of staff, has told McMaster he supports him remaining as national security adviser, Politico reported, citing two unnamed senior White House aides.
After Kelly started Monday, McMaster ousted Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council, and the latest ally of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to be dismissed from the White House. (read more)
Also, the President weighed in directly in response to an inquiry from the New York Times:
President Trump defended Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, his embattled national security adviser, on Friday in the face of a full-bore campaign by the nationalist wing of his political coalition accusing him of undermining the president’s agenda and calling for his dismissal.
General McMaster has angered the political right by pushing out several conservatives on the national security staff and cautioning against ripping up the nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by President Barack Obama without a strategy for what comes next. His future has been in doubt amid speculation that Mr. Trump might send him to Afghanistan.
But after two days of unrelenting attacks on General McMaster by conservative activists and news sites, complete with the Twitter hashtag #FireMcMaster, the president weighed in to quash such talk. “General McMaster and I are working very well together,” he said in a statement emailed to The New York Times. “He is a good man and very pro–Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”
A senior White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the president’s views, added that Mr. Trump has “total confidence” in his national security adviser. (read more)
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.
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.
And this one is presumably on tape. Hard to call that “fake news”.
Because of the suddenness of the rumors, I’d venture a guess half of them were started by those seeking to demoralize. Some people got Yuri’d. Some recognized it for what it was - rabblerousing.
“Sundance” didn’t post a link to this Trump quote. Where did it come from?
““General McMaster and I are working very well together,” he said in a statement emailed to The New York Times. “He is a good man and very pro–Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”
That looks like a lukewarm endorsement to me. Nowhere does Trump say that he’s satisfied with McMaster’s role as NSA.
I’m not sure the NSC has much influence on foreign policy. I’m thinking their role is solely advisory, and they certainly have no authority to execute foreign policy. Maybe best for Trump to mostly ignore them.
Susan Rice has no business with a limited or unlimited security clearance. She no longer has a need to know. And given that she was involved in the mass unmasking, a so-called “limited” clearance is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
Sandy Berger should have lost his clearance PERMANENTLY but he was merely temporarily limited. God had other plans, though...
“General McMaster and I are working very well together,” he said in a statement emailed to The New York Times. “He is a good man and very pro–Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”
Pretty clear the anti-Israel charges stung McMaster the most. Obviously because they are true.
Kushner is a fool to sign off on firing Trumpers. Soon the deep state will come for him. And there won’t be anybody left to defend him.
Correct. The National Security Advisor and
National Security Council are just there to advise the President on issues of National Security! Whatever influence they have on foreign policy is if the President takes their advice on a foreign or national security matter! The National Security Advisor’s office isn’t far from the Oval Office and can immediately brief and advise the President on a moments notice!
rumors?
She has unlimited access to all information on individuals that were unmasked during her tenure. This is a huge mistake.
Put differently, no one commenting on McMaster has any idea what they’re talking about.
Funny post - thanks. I LOL’ed for several minutes picturing the Mooch firing a pistol round into the Oval Office ceiling to get a RINO onboard. I imagined that Prissy Lindsey Graham was the RINO in the Oval Office being his Prissy self and then Prissy Lindsey wetting himself after Mooch fires the shot into the ceiling. LMFAO
THAT would make a great SNL skit!!
Sundance at theconservativetreehouse.com has rather grave doubts or unease of Sarah Carter.
Personally, I believe she is sincere. She may turn out to be used, by her source and some hidden agenda, but Sarah herself seems quite sincere to me.
“McMaster constantly refers to the existence of a Palestinian state before 1947,” a senior West Wing official tells CR (there was never an independent Palestinian state), adding that McMaster describes Israel as an “illegitimate,” “occupying power.”
This really concerns me...
Obama’s NSC director was always in the media defending her boss. That McMaster isn’t doing the same for Trump speaks volumes, IMO.
I am convinced Trump is the living, breathing, Chauncey Gardiner. McMaster Swampness is evident to Everybody, but not Donald.
Stick a fork in him. The moron is done.
When the news story is that he is safe in his job, the exact opposite is true.
That being said, it might be true about McMasters, but it does not make sense to me.
“And John Kelly made his 3rd and 4th stars under Obama, is he also a swamp creature?”
Sure as hell is. He is trying to talk Trump out of a wall. didn’t say a word when Obama put in the trannies into the military or women into the infantry.
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