Posted on 08/03/2017 11:09:57 AM PDT by Syncro
Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick wrote Wednesday evening that National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster is purging pro-Israel staff from the National Security Council (NSC), turning the administration against President Donald Trump’s policies.
In a Facebook post, Glick noted that “all of these people” whom McMaster has fired this week — Rich Higgins, Derek Harvey, and Ezra Cohen-Watnick — “are pro-Israel and oppose the Iran nuclear deal, positions that Trump holds.”
She noted that the firings were the latest evidence that NSA McMaster is “deeply hostile to Israel and to Trump”:
According to senior officials aware of his behavior, he constantly refers to Israel as the occupying power and insists falsely and constantly that a country named Palestine existed where Israel is located until 1948 when it was destroyed by the Jews.
Many of you will remember that a few days before Trump’s visit to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו and his advisers were blindsided when the Americans suddenly told them that no Israeli official was allowed to accompany Trump to the Western Wall.
What hasn’t been reported: it was McMaster who pressured Trump to agree not to let Netanyahu accompany him to the Western Wall. At the time, I and other reporters were led to believe that this was the decision of rogue anti-Israel officers at the US consulate in Jerusalem. But it wasn’t. It was McMaster.
And even that, it works out wasn’t sufficient for McMaster. He pressured Trump to cancel his visit to the Wall and only visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial — ala the Islamists who insist that the only reason Israel exists is European guilt over the Holocaust.
Glick noted that the three latest firings were not McMaster’s first attack on pro-Israel officials, or those critical of radical Islam.
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Yes, the true old saw “The Enemy Within”
“Don’t know why Trump didn’t purge DC of any/all Obama (and even some Bush) holdovers when he first took office.”
Why do people keep asking this idiotic question? 96% plus of the irreparably corrupt fed govt ACTUALLY VOTED FOR THAT TREASONOUS HARPY.
That’s bush, clinton, & O’bunghole holdovers...that’s TOTAL CORRUPTION.
Interesting dynamic.
Do you realize the number of traitors to our country that have been exposed during the Trump era.
I cannot believe these traitors to the country can get any sleep at night. Hypocrites.
In the words of Jesus, a brood of vipers. They are white washed sepulchers full of dead men’s bones.
Thanks for the correction. I mistakenly guessed the H stood for Henry.
Flynn should have NEVER resigned..biggest mistake ever..should have stayed. I trust him more than this McMaster guy..is there ANYONE in the White House that has Trump’s back or are they all in the Democrat pocket
If there is not a recess then they can’t be called backbecause they aren’t gone. If they are gone then it is a recess
Amen.
Politics is synchronizing more and more with the Bible and Biblical prophecy.
When they completely merge there will be grave consequences.
I know it's "apples vs oranges",but Obama and Clinton never had a problem per se. Very rarely was loyalty an issue,leaks were non existent and most,if not all,previous administration holdovers expelled.
Extremely distressing and an enormous disappointment is this handling of human resources. Does it take much thought to understand the hiring of YOUR people fully vetted as opposed to having to fire established/embedded holdover people who are counter to the new administration? One of civilian Trump's most famous attributes was bringing in the best and brightest who exemplified Trump Brand and his values along with a short leash,firing with no qualms anyone who remotely steps out of line.
“I would have thought a businessman like President Trump would have the whole research resume, research person, hire and fire thing down pat.”
I’m sure he does, but he’s accustomed to working within an environment in which he has many people in place around him who are loyal to him and that assist in the vetting process. In the Presidency, he essentially has to do the vetting himself, because both Democrat opposition and his own party are trying to hurt him and his Presidency.
That said, Pence has more makers to call in, and he needs to pull more weight in stopping the shenanigans.
makers = markers
I can't believe how poorly Trump is doing at finding the right underlings to get things dome properly. That was always one of his supposed great strengths in the business world, finding exceptional people, delegating tasks to them, and letting them perform excellently without micro-managing them. The last 6 months have been a nightmare, instead, as far as staffing goes. Hiring Reince Priebus was just one of his many patently obvious hiring blunders.
“What’s his [Rush] tone?”
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Not good. Said he was suspicious of McMaster from the very beginning of his hire because Trump got universal praise for the hiring from all the wrong people. Said Trump was under pressure after Flynn resigned.
Rush also mentioned that Cruz’ foreign policy advisor [Victoria Coates] was also let go a couple of weeks ago.
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Freeper BurgessKoch complied a list (with his notes):
Steve Bannon -Trump’s chief strategist controversially held a seat on the NSC during the earliest days of the Trump administration, while Flynn was still at the helm. But in April, soon after McMaster was brought in, he launched a restructuring of the NSC that — among other things — saw Bannon lose his seat at the table, along with his most direct influence on the country’s national security policy.
K.T. McFarland - Just days after Bannon lost his seat at the NSC, McMaster also pushed out Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland, a former Fox News contributor and Flynn ally. McFarland stayed in the administration — her nomination to become ambassador to Singapore is currently pending — but she lost her key national security position.
Tera Dahl - McMaster reassigned Dahl, a deputy chief of staff at the NSC who mostly occupied an administrative role, in early July, per Buzzfeed. Dahl was known to have close ties to Bannon, having previously worked as a columnist at Breitbart News. She had founded a think tank with the wife of NSC aide Sebastian Gorka that warned against the use of “politically correct” terms when discussing terrorism.
Derek Harvey - Last week, McMaster removed Harvey, the NSC’s Middle East adviser, from his post, per Foreign Policy. Though the reasoning wasn’t immediately made clear, Harvey was brought in by Flynn and was a noted hawk on Iran. He had also drafted a list of Obama-era “holdovers” employed by the NSC, a nod to the “deep state” theory in some conservative circles.
Rich Higgins - News broke earlier today that Bannon ally Rich Higgins, a director of strategic planning for the National Security Council, was fired last month after crafting a memo warning that “globalists and Islamists” were undertaking a “Maoist insurgency” to undermine President Trump via “political warfare,” per The Atlantic.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3574160/posts?page=1#1
ADD to that list:
Ezra Cohen-Watnick
Victoria Coates
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That’s quite a firing spree! Apparently, McMaster considers himself immune from becoming a casualty. Why?
I looked back and McMaster was one of the first politicians to endorse Trump. I believe he was Lt. Gov. from South Carolina at the time. He’s a smart guy and may have thought it the best way to get into a Trump administration.
At this point, I am beginning to think that Trump is incompetent. The way the Scaramucci/Priebus/Spicer episode was handled, and not firing Muller, McMaster etc., seems to indicate that Trump does not have a good instinct for selecting good people, or letting bad ones go.
See 45.
If he believes that way he can quit then. No need for any clownish Senate confirmation.
Suddenly the whole of conservative media is after McMaster. Now long can he last? Not long I hope.
This needs to be repeated often.
Snake in the grass. Fire him.
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