Earlier installments here and here. The issue is, that NSA McMaster allegedly is:
- clearing out Israel supporters and Trump supporters from the National Security staff, replacing them with Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood and Iran supporters. Experts in this story now rattle off about 8 names.
- preferring his own globalist, interventionist foreign policy to President Trump’s America First agenda. And,
- perhaps being one of the “leakers” who undermines Trump.
I have to say: On paper, General McMaster looks like he should be one of the good guys. But Media Matters (Soros-Brock smear army), MSNBC (Morning Joe), The Young Turks (or Aging Armenian-Holocaust Deniers), CNN (the CIA News Network), WaPo and NYT, and everyone else on the Left have lined up strongly behind McMaster. That has to be a bad sign. Anyway, the updates:
- President Trump issued a statement in McMaster’s favor. Speculative theories about why, include 1) he honestly likes McMaster; 2) he’s not yet ready to move against McMaster and wants to quiet the issue; 3) the statement was put out by someone else, such as McMaster.
- The Zionist Organization of America, “the oldest pro-Israel organization in America which has been a reliable supporter of President Donald Trump”, is going to take a comprehensive look at McMaster and issue a statement.
Incidentally, this hints that Israel/Netanyahu could be part of the anti-McMaster campaign.
- The latest wild rumor (InfoWars gang) has McMaster doing briefings on national security and White House ops for Clintonworld and George Soros. I can’t find that story confirmed in other outlets, whom I would consider more reliable. However…
- Breitbart reports that McMaster participates in Soros-financed groups, and is in bed with key backers of Obama’s sketchy deal with Iran.
Still in “wait ‘n see” mode. It is patently clear that wherever Obama was getting his national security and foreign affairs advice, it wasn’t worth “a bucket of warm spit” (if “spit” is the actual and unlikely word that John Nance Garner used in advising fellow Texan Lyndon B. Johnson about the vice-presidency.)
With all the many things Trump has on his plate, a rogue NSA advisor is not the same as having a fox in the hen house. If McMaster is a rogue, he has to be able to fool a huge number of top dogs in the administration all of the time.
Trump is not an ideologue. He will get what is useful from McMaster and disagree with him in preference to others when it suits him. It is up to McMaster to avoid screwing himself. Now, if one is concerned as to whether Trump is up to the cleverness of McMaster, that is another matter. And if Trump is swayed by sycophants that is also another matter.
If McMaster is an “enemy” to the Trump agenda, he (McMaster) will make it clear soon enough.
For the time being, it appears to me that McMaster is a PushmePullme caught in a tug of war between ideologues.
Fair enough!
I find it maddening that Donald Trump is stuck with the same foreign policy as Obama. One of the prerogatives of the President is foreign policy, usually. Not for Donald Trump, he must continue the policy of the deep state neocons and Obamites. He cannot get rid of McMaster because of the reactions of the deep state, the neocons and the Senate, who would not confirm his replacement.
I reiterate my “I don’t know” position, though I think Heliotrope’s assessment is pretty much spot on.
Clearly, there’s a lot of fire focused on him. Unfortunately, the sources of that fire are about as untrustworthy as the target.
Any president is going to have a vast perspective & the resources to increase that to a wider degree. President Trump isn’t stupid. He’s been a “boss” for a long, long time. Even an idiot in his position is going to pick up the basic that an underling may be a liability. So, in the absence of something tangible in the way of McMaster not being totally on board with Trump’s agenda; I would say that the matter be taken at face value. That being, he holds his position for now & is not a threat to the agenda.
Trump is not a Ted Cruz, an Obama or a Bernie Sanders. Trump’s agenda is his existence while president. His profile & confidences is varied in a way that makes someone of singular principle crazy or on edge. It’s a pragmatism by someone who knew he could do the job for which he was hired. I’ve previously said, Romney was basically the same kind of personage. If Romney would have won in 2012 we would be having this same conversation. There would have been someone the Right disapproves of in a position of influence or importance.
McMaster is going to know there is distrust on the Right against him now. Ask yourself if McMaster is the kind of man that would bite the hand that feeds him. A pragmatic leader will always need someone who can do the job within the environment in which all this is happening. which is populated with Globalists, Leftists & other monsters.
Could it be that they are making all of this up so that there will be another firing and they can continue the “White House in chaos” narrative?
If it walks like a duck……..
There is enough doubt as to who McMaster is. In the world of business he’d be emptying his desk. Better to error on caution then to regret it later. Why hasn’t Trump replaced all of the Obama appointees in State dept. Yet?. WTF