H.R. McMaster Excluded From Trump-Netanyahu Meeting
Source: Mediaite
by Aidan McLaughlin | 8:10 am, May 26th, 2017
National security advisor H.R. McMaster was left out of a meeting between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, a move that raised eyebrows among officials.
According to Kafe Knesset, Trump met with Netanyahu Monday evening, starting with a one-on-one meeting. The forum was soon expanded by several advisors on each side, including Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and Ambassador David Friedman on the U.S. side, according to Israeli officials.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was also later invited to the expanded meeting, per an official, but McMaster sat outside the King David room during the course of the entire meeting. Former U.S. officials told Kafe Knesset that the national security advisors exclusion from the meeting was highly unusual.
For the President to prioritize his son-in-law and his lawyer over the National Security Advisor for these kind of strategic discussions is unconventional, to say the least, an official said.
Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/trump/h-r-mcmaster-excluded-from-of-trump-netanyahu-meeting/
get the red out
(13,462 posts)He probably told tRump something he didn't want to hear at some point.
dalton99a
(81,468 posts)lark
(23,097 posts)I'm sure it was some self dealing that he was covering up, but wonder what it was? Anyone have any informed ideas?
barbtries
(28,789 posts)who has any appreciation for the rule of law is that it?
i just wrote to my senator (Tillis - R, NC) begging him to put country over party and end this nightmare. we can't even vote him out until 2020. he's terrible just like the other one.
brush
(53,771 posts)resignation immediately and catch the next flight home.
Only in trumpworld would the National Security Adviser be left out of such a meeting.
trump just uses people. He sent him out last week in Spice Boy's place to lie for him, now
he's been supplanted by Kushner.
Time to go, general.
Juliusseizure
(562 posts)If you want to make Russia great again McMaster is not to be trusted.
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,905 posts)Between the daily eyebrow raising and jaw-dropping, they should look like this by now -
librechik
(30,674 posts)this guy is going to Hitler us, I guess.