The Agony of H.R. McMaster: Will Trump Dump His Second National Security Advisor

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Updated | Is H.R. McMaster, the White House national security adviser, on the way out? By some signs, he is: President Donald Trump not only excluded him from a key meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his national security adviser Monday night in Jerusalem, he was kept “outside the King David [Hotel] room during the course of the entire meeting,” according to an eye-catching Israeli account.

Taken alone, the perceived shaming wouldn’t amount to much: Trump has a habit of slighting his aides in public. But the incident came only days after a report in The New York Times that McMaster had fallen out of favor with the president. Trump had “complained that General McMaster talks too much in meetings,” and “the president has referred to him as ‘a pain,’” The Times said in a report that was not challenged by the White House. By the time Trump left Israel for his meeting in Rome with the Pope, right-wing news sites closely allied with the so-called “nationalist” wing of the White House were serving up full throated criticism of McMaster, a distinguished Army general.

"Gen. McMaster Squanders Tremendous Capital Trump Earns in Saudi Arabia,” screamed a headline at Frontpage, a web site that has championed the president’s travel ban and other anti-Muslim themes. McMaster “acknowledged that the President had used the term ‘Islamic terrorism’ in his speech” in Riyadh,” the news site complained, “then immediately tried to back away from it.” The general had “returned to the Obama-era white-washing of Islam [and] bending over backwards out of fear of offending Muslim leaders whose support we need to fight ISIS,” it claimed.

Breitbart News Network, formerly edited by Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon, went further, inviting “anti-Muslim gadfly” Frank Gaffney onto its Sirius XM radio show to blast McMaster as “one of the leading voices in the Trump administration seeking to divorce Islam from terrorism.”    

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-mcmaster-israel-russia-fired-national-security-adviser-jared-kushner-616735

[Squinch]

1. Trump has trashed McMaster's previously good reputation. His work there is done.

[FarPoint]

2. I thought McMaster did a good job of...

Lying and Whoring for tRump.

[airmid]

4. He sure does seem to be covering for him. Kinda disconcerting...

[Squinch]

5. Excellent job. Before he worked for Trump, though, his reputation was sterling. There is something

about lying down with dogs and selling one's soul that just doesn't work for people in the long run.

[Me.]

7. Precisely

And is therefore useless to the country he swore to serve

[democratisphere]

3. McMaster would be better off fired specially when the sh*t starts hitting the fan.

[bresue]

6. Probably holding his hand

so he has enough info for another book, How America was dismantled and given to the Russians!