UPDATED: Breaking: Bannon has been removed from the National Security Council - Bloomberg

[stevenleser]

more info and links as I get them UPDATED:

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-04-05/bannon-removed-from-national-security-council-role-in-shakeup

President Donald Trump reorganized his National Security Council on Wednesday, removing his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and downgrading the role of his Homeland Security Adviser, Tom Bossert, according to a person familiar with the decision and a regulatory filing.

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was given responsibility for setting the agenda for meetings of the NSC or the Homeland Security Council, and was authorized to delegate that authority to Bossert, at his discretion, according to the filing.

Under the move, the national intelligence director, Dan Coats, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, are again "regular attendees" of the NSC’s principals committee.

Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, was elevated to the National Security Council’s principals committee at the beginning of Trump’s presidency. The move drew criticism from some members of Congress and Washington’s foreign policy establishment.

[Wounded Bear]

1. MSNBC reporting this right now...

a small victory, but sounds good.

[Aristus]

2. Good.

I hope this triggers a rush to the exits among the Trumpster's staff...

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

3. Nothing on 3 network news

?

[WoonTars]

4. Holy sh*t!!

Mango Mussolini must be furious!!

[nycbos]

25. I am guessing McMaster gave him an ultimatum.

"He goes or I go."


And even Trump is smart enough to realize that he can't have a story of losing two National Security Advisors in less than 100 days.

[rufus dog]

5. Reported as McMaster not willing to work with him

AND - I bet the Russian ties are too deep.

[still_one]

13. I hope they have a smoking gun with the Russian ties an Bannon

[malaise]

20. +1,000

The chickens are coming home to roost

[tenorly]

6. No doubt at the military's insistence - and with good cause.

Cheeto's probably next.

[Jonny Appleseed]

7. He now IS the national security council.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

8. Probably was running through west wing channeling Mel Gibson

"Anyone wanna WAR!"

[malaise]

9. On GEM$NBComcast now

Great news

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Good, but I don't trust anyone for this to make a difference.

Bannon's a cockroach and he's managed to create a Trump who has little use for existing administrative institutions.

He's not out of the picture. He's never out of the picture. None of these cretins are ever out of the picture. Let's not forget they "fired" Roger Stone.

[VOX]

24. Your 2nd paragraph: 100 percent accurate!

[byronius]

33. Yes, and Manafort 'left the campaign' to advise from Trump Towers.

Bad fakery. Won't make any difference.

[Thomas Hurt]

11. Removed him because he f'ed up with the Nunes scam?

That little bit of propaganda had to come from that alcoholic fascist

[JTFrog]

12. I bet he already got access to everything he wanted anyway. nt

[orangecrush]

15. Bingo

You win thread!

[FSogol]

14. Good, I wonder if Trumpy is getting tried of winning yet?

[ProfessorGAC]

18. On That Point

I'm no kid, and i don't recall anybody president ever having to replace top advisors in the first 90 days, except perhaps for health or something, and i can't even remember that happening.

Well oiled machine, my rear.

[jeanmarc]

16. He should be kicked out of the White House entirely

The man is a chaotic louse.

[Johnny2X2X]

17. This is good news

Bannon literally wants WWIII. Now the guys that are still there are crazy and incompetent too, but nowhere near as apocalyptic as Bannon was.

The threat to the world by these maniacs is still dire, but has been reduced considerably by taking Bannon out of this role. A role for which he had zero qualifications for.

[gratuitous]

21. Certainly that whole WWIII thing is bad

But I hardly believe that would make a dime's worth of difference to President Trump. No, I'm thinking that Bannon slighted someone in the immediate family. Being a Class A jerk is more of a qualification than a drawback, but affronting the First Family is like blaspheming against the Holy Spirit.

[workinclasszero]

22. Bannon is a nazi POS

But Dump 45 is still in charge. I can't get very happy over that.

[workinclasszero]

19. Trump's night of the long knifes

already?

[VOX]

23. Washington Post confirming Bannon off NSC...

Just now, 9:02 AM, PDT.

[Ellipsis]

26. Bloomberg softened the headline from "removed" to loses.... heh

From a brief skim he never attended the meetings.... he got the minutes and agenda and data I would assume, yes?

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. Well, we know we are going to war in Syria, without congressional approval or maybe even

knowledge.

Now this, what is next?

Is NK going to get WWIII going? With trump in the WH, that is likely.

[herding cats]

28. WSJ says it was at the behest of McMaster

The WH is spin:

An official says Bannon was only on board to oversee now-ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's work to "deoperationalize" the National Security Council from the broad purview it had under Susan Rice.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/politics/steve-bannon-white-house-national-security-council/

[kentuck]

29. I suspect there is much more to this story?

He probably took himself off the Council since McMaster was unable to even remove the young punk that had come on board with General Flynn.

So, why would he remove himself from the NSC?

[bigbrother05]

34. See, only Obama politicized the NSC with Rice

Donald is squeaky clean, top to bottom, only trying to bring businesslike efficiency to government

Those will be Faux News memes moving forward

[Freethinker65]

30. Bannon needs to be removed from the WH loop altogether

[Orrex]

31. I wonder what he did to piss Putin off.

[Lint Head]

32. I'm glad he's been removed but I think it means nothing more than Trump made

news to deflect from his real problems.

[H2O Man]

35. Recommended.

There will be more news to follow. Much more, in fact.