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Former Gen/Nat Sec Advisor: There is an insider gang actively opposing Trump

2020-09-22

Guten Morgen...
[CBSN] CBS News reports former national security adviser H.R. McMaster

... National Security Advisor February 20, 2017 – April 9, 2018, after which the Army retired him, possibly for being an insubordinate weenie. He has since amused himself with writing the usual book, joining the Hoover Institute and the board of Zoom, and talking sense in public. That Eric “Ukraine!!!” Ciaramella, NSC whistleblower extraordinaire, was his personal aide shows that he is only human...
says [Obama Administration] advisors may have been actively opposing or damaging President Trump.

He details three groups: those who are there trying to help the president and serve the country, those who are there instead of "providing options to the elected president" they really want to serve their own narrow agendas, and then finally there's one group "who cast themselves in the role of saving the country and maybe the world from the president." [H/T Nick Arama of Redstate]
Some might even call it a conspiracy, and treason. They need to be identified and publicly frog-marched out.

Yes.

Posted by:OldSpook

#7 McMaster was a good military commander, but he lost it in politics. As for the President, he should have cleaned house more than he did, but figuring realistically how to do it is a lot harder than knowing that he needed to do it.

Kind of like how Patton used the former Nazisin post WW2 Germany, except that the Nazis didn't backstab him the way the Obamanistas did Trump.

Interesting how that works, worse than actual Nazis.

Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-22 12:54

#6 "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." Some don't just fade away when there are books to be written and sold and important think tank work to be done.

McMaster presents himself in a self-flattering way to Scott Pelley. What was his role in the coup d'état if any? I wonder who he viewed as his enemies at the WH beside Trump?

Posted by: JohnQC 2020-09-22 10:08

#5 Purge the SES gob network.

Members of the SES serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees.

Posted by: Skidmark 2020-09-22 10:05

#4 He was under investigation even before he was sworn in. He couldn't just fire everyone and I don't think he realized the partisan resistance he would face at all levels of government, with him being a business man and everyone just accepts the new CEO usually.

This time around, especially if the 'Pubs seize the house, expect massive firings throughout the government.

Posted by: DarthVader 2020-09-22 09:02

#3 President Trumps biggest mistake was using so many hold-overs.

What options did he have? He's a DC outsider, unlike DC insiders he did not have a ready bullpen of Party DC insiders ready to back him up.

In addition he's been met with non stop lawfare in and out of the judiciary, lots of resistance within both houses of congress by his own party and some might even say treason if you factor in the machinations of the SSCI.

So, OldSpook, what was that again?

Posted by: H-T-A 2020-09-22 07:44

#2 Ya don't say...

A very American coup: no knives or gunfire or bombs, just relentless full-spectrum lawfare, congressional bolloxing and media bullshit

Posted by: Thrase Whairt3339 2020-09-22 03:05

#1 President Trumps biggest mistake was using so many hold-overs. After this election, he should have resignations on his desk the next day of every dismiss-able political appointee from GS-1 to a GS-O-My_God - and fire the lot of them if they even sniffed the air near Obama or Soros or Pelosi, Nadler, ~~Shit~~ Schiff, or their henchmen.

Posted by: OldSpook 2020-09-22 01:26

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