Trump defends national security adviser H.R. McMaster amid calls for his firing
Source: CBS News
President Trump is standing up for his national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, calling him a "good man" amid calls for his ouster by conservatives.
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"He has determined that, at this time, a different set of experiences is best-suited to carrying that work forward," a statement released by the White House said of Cohen-Watnick's release. "General McMaster is confident that Ezra will make many further significant contributions to national security in another position in the administration."
Last week, McMaster also removed Middle East director Derek Harvey from his position at the NSC due to a "difference in vision," according to a White House source. Harvey was also hired by Flynn, whose short-lived tenure as national security advisercame to an end in February.
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The attacks directed at McMaster came from conservative news sites and grew on social media. The hashtag #FireMcMaster has been tweeted more than 50,000 times since Wednesday, the Times reported, including by accounts linked to Russian cyber operations.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-defends-national-security-adviser-h-r-mcmaster-amid-calls-for-his-firing/
Posted this for that nugget in the last paragraph. Is this the first time Putin has unleashed the Russian bots to try to undermine a Trump decision?
A harbinger of things to come?
I guess it's "live by the bot, die by the bot"!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)McMasters exit. Bannon and Steve Miller will decapitate this Guy.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)the Trump kiss of death
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)Spicer was a "good man".
Priebus was a "good man".
These guys weren't "amazing, the best, wonderful, fantastic" etc. When Trump calls you a "good man" you might as well start packing your bags.
ananda
(28,856 posts)...
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)that doesn't make me a nazi. It DOES make me devastatingly handsome though.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)I like Trump, but he has done a crappy job of putting together a team thats going to drain the swamp, seems like theyre expanding the swamp.
15 posted on 2017-08-02, 5:24:23 PM by aquila48
136 posted on 2017-08-03, 7:00:41 PM by TianaHighrider (Deplorable me)
Skittles
(153,138 posts)to think of Donald Fucking Trump as an "exceptionally intelligent man"
SergeStorms
(19,192 posts)And he's a fool by just about EVERYONE'S standards. And then to call him "Great President"........ well, you just KNOW that moron drank a shitload of Kool-Aid, then ate the container it came in as well.
When you read things like that you just can't help but wonder how they suffered that much brain damage.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)He's totally screwed!
moonscape
(4,673 posts)defending McMaster against Bannon.
The coming (current?) Kelly/Bannon war will be interesting.