NYT: K.T. McFarland Expected To Leave Current Position On NSC

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo



By MATT SHUHAM Published FEBRUARY 14, 2017, 9:56 AM EDT

The deputy national security adviser brought in to President Donald Trump’s inner circle by the former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is expected to leave that role, the New York Times reported Tuesday morning. K.T. McFarland served Presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan before beginning a career as a Fox News analyst, and then as an adviser to Trump.

Flynn resigned from his position as national security adviser Monday night, just days after the Washington Post reported he discussed sanctions on a phone call with Russia’s ambassador to the United States as a civilian in December, before Trump was inaugurated.

Then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates told White House counsel Don McGahn in late January that Flynn could be vulnerable to Russian blackmail, the Post reported Monday. The former NSC chief of staff, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, has taken Flynn's place as acting national security adviser, though the Times also reported that it was unlikely Kellogg would stay in that role permanently.

McFarland brought some of Trump’s energy to national security council meetings, the Times reported Sunday. The paper reported that many “apolitical” members of the council were uncomfortable with her displays of partisanship, including at one recent meeting when she urged them to “make America great again.”

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-kt-mcfarland-national-security-council

[CountAllVotes]

1. Drain that Swamp!

buh bye loser commie spy McFarland, we barely knew ye!

[ffr]

4. K&R & K&R

This flimsy deck of cards is already folding. I hope this translates to RW hoodwinked voters catching on and admitting they fucked us up BIGLY!

[tazkcmo]

9. Never will happen.

People need to understand that the modern GOPee has been brainwashed for the last 35 years by extremist RW preachers while at church functions, home schooled in alternative facts and history and taught all along the way that Liberals are Enemy Number One.

They operate in a false construct of lies and propaganda and there is nothing we can say or do to bring them back to reality. They will not believe us when we tell them 2+2=4 because their pastor, their "news" programs and their leadership have told them all their lives that it's 5 and that Liberals always lie (Enemy Number One, remember?).

No matter what happens, the RW will blame anything "bad" on the Evil Liberal Cabal and the lying media (Fox, Breitbart and Infowars excepted) and will support or ignore all misdeeds done by their Saviors.

I'm done with these fools. They've caused this country great harm and I have zero desire to reach out, build bridges or unite with them because it cannot be done.

Step 1: Admitting you have a problem. They'll never do this.

[msanthrope]

2. Holy Fucking Shit. nt

[nolabear]

3. Maybe SHE'LL sing. There's a crack in that facade somewhere.

[DippyDem]

5. More hiring to come....wait...Trump did freeze hiring, right? NT

[riversedge]

8. the new chief would hire a replacement. not new staff.

[Mc Mike]

6. Bye.

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Love the Sid B. quote assessing dRUmpf's associations, btw.

“What he represents, above all, is the triumph of an underworld of predators, hustlers, mobsters, clubhouse politicians and tabloid sleaze that festered in a corner of New York City, a vindication of his mentor, the Mafia lawyer Roy Cohn, a figure unknown to the vast majority of enthusiasts who jammed Trump’s rallies and hailed him as the authentic voice of the people.” - Sidney Blumenthal

[riversedge]

7. McFarland is a weird duck.....

..... At one Suffolk County event, McFarland told a crowd of local Republicans that Clinton’s team was flying helicopters over her Southampton home and had spies perched across the street from her Manhattan apartment taking pictures into her bedroom. McFarland’s campaign later insisted that she was joking.

In an interview with the Associated Press, McFarland also accused her father of beating her during childhood — a charge her father, Augie Troia, vehemently denied.

McFarland was also forced to briefly suspend her campaign after her then-16-year-old daughter was arrested for shoplifting in Southampton.


Eventually, McFarland lost the GOP primary to then Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, who went on to lose a landslide election to Clinton in November.