What’s his tone?
“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?