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Demovictory9

(32,453 posts)
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 09:10 PM Feb 2020

White House quietly trims dozens of national security experts

White House quietly trims dozens of national security experts

Washington — Six days before President Trump chose Robert O’Brien as his national security advisor in September, the president said the job would be simple.
“You know why it’s easy?” Trump told reporters. “Because I make all the decisions. They don’t have to work.”

As a key White House advisor, O’Brien clearly works — but he meets Trump’s other job requirements: He avoids publicity, he gets out of the way on policy decisions, and he dismisses employees Trump views as meddlesome.

Unlike his predecessors, John Bolton or H.R. McMaster, who pursued their own agendas or tried to block some of Trump’s impulses, O’Brien has taken a wrecking ball to parts of the National Security Council, the intelligence and foreign policy hub of the White House, to satisfy a president who doesn’t trust experts, is suspicious of career government employees, and acts on his own whims.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-02-12/white-house-quietly-trims-dozens-of-national-security-experts

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White House quietly trims dozens of national security experts (Original Post) Demovictory9 Feb 2020 OP
We know where he gets all his decisions from underpants Feb 2020 #1
Who needs National Security Advisors? leftieNanner Feb 2020 #2
A systematic dismantling of our intelligence. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2020 #3
tRUMP keeps doing everything Putin wants, while republicans fawn at how wonderful everything is. WyattKansas Feb 2020 #4

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
4. tRUMP keeps doing everything Putin wants, while republicans fawn at how wonderful everything is.
Wed Feb 12, 2020, 10:14 PM
Feb 2020

At this point, republican Senators and House members who keep propping up this Russian 'Idiot' should take out their pistols, point it at their temple, and pull the trigger to do the country a favor.

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