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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 OBrien 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 presidents had a much smaller NSC team.
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TOPICS: Breaking News
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; burisma; deepstate; ericciaramella; moles; nsc; obama; obamaholdovers; trumpnsc; ukraine; yourefired
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To: Signalman
Should have been done on day 1. Rancid Priebus probably advised against it.
Trump knows better now than to trust the Inside-the-Beltway bums.
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posted on
02/10/2020 7:58:13 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
To: caww
The one take away from this thread is:
Everyone's an expert and not one would qualify as a pimple on a President's ass.
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posted on
02/10/2020 7:59:35 AM PST
by
lewislynn
(STOP SUPPORTING CHINA AND ANTI-AMERICAN GLOBALISTS! DO IT NOW!)
To: caww
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posted on
02/10/2020 7:59:51 AM PST
by
rlmorel
(Finding middle ground with tyranny or evil makes you either a tyrant or evil. Often both.)
To: jimfree
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posted on
02/10/2020 7:59:53 AM PST
by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
To: caww
Pray that he is reelected so he can continue to scrape the muck out of the bottom of the swamp!!
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:00:00 AM PST
by
BobinIL
To: caww
“When you are up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp!”
POTUS not only “remembers,” he kills alligators and keeps draining the swamp!
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:00:09 AM PST
by
Taxman
(We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!)
To: caww
Good. There’s no way in hell they need 200 people on the NSC staff, regardless of which administration they were brought in by.
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:00:27 AM PST
by
Future Snake Eater
(Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
To: akalinin
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:00:28 AM PST
by
Fishtalk
To: Future Snake Eater
Finally someone got him to read “The Prince”!
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:01:56 AM PST
by
Reily
To: PGR88
Was this today or total over the last 3 years? I didn’t see it in the article.
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:02:12 AM PST
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
To: caww
According to this, obama and his handlers fattened the NSC staff to possibly over 300-400 people and used it to micromanage the other real national security agencies in govt. No wonder we ended up with puffed up toads like that ambitious Army 0-5 Vindman, who postured himself to try to guide US foreign policy with Ukraine
Prior to obama, the Presidents focused on foreign enemy threats. Obama from 2009 began to set in place organizations to manage We the People and the GOP as domestic enemies of the progressive agenda...and saw the independent Trump as their major threat as early as 2015,
https://www.rollcall.com/2016/04/26/fight-looms-over-size-of-white-house-national-security-staff/
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:02:18 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
To: Signalman
Should have been done on day 1.I agree 100%. Trump is smarter than that. Which makes me wonder if he was angling to catch them when they raised up to betray him. If he was playing that chess game from the start, I'm thinking Obama is going to be toast.
To: mad_as_he$$
A start. Next stop State.State has been under purge conditions for a while now, since at least the Tillerson reign.
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:02:41 AM PST
by
Future Snake Eater
(Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
To: caww
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:02:43 AM PST
by
Vlad The Inhaler
(I love Mankind - It's Just Most Of The People That I Can't Stand)
To: Qiviut
His earliest advisors were all Bush League Republicans who were working to undermine him.
Preibus, Kelly and others suggested people they knew would stymie the progress of reversing the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA).
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:02:44 AM PST
by
Lurkinanloomin
(Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
To: caww
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:03:30 AM PST
by
blackdog
(Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
To: Lurkinanloomin
You just stated in a much more succinct way what I was trying to say with my ramblings! :-)
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:04:49 AM PST
by
Qiviut
(President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA! Nasty Nan is a walking obscenity.)
To: lewislynn; Dahoser
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:05:26 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(RIP T.P.)
To: caww
Glad to see it, but he should’ve done that as soon as he could after Inauguration in 2017. Not one holdover should’ve been in place after that date.
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posted on
02/10/2020 8:05:26 AM PST
by
ScottinVA
(Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
To: Qiviut
I think this is hitting the nail on the head. I heard an explanation, within his first year, I think, that he was NOT a politician and, as most politicians do, he did not have a rolodex of names he could call on to fill the many positions that needed filling. Trump relied on folks like Reince (for starters) & others who did have a rolodex, to make suggestions. 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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posted on
02/10/2020 8:05:33 AM PST
by
Roccus
(Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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