White House preparing for McMaster exit as early as next month

[demmiblue]

Source: NBC

WASHINGTON — The White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser as early as next month in a move orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five people familiar with the discussions.

The move would be the latest in a long string of staff shakeups at the White House over the past year and comes after months of strained relations between the president and McMaster.

A leading candidate to become President Donald Trump’s third national security adviser is the auto industry executive Stephen Biegun, according to the officials.

Biegun, who currently serves as vice president of international governmental affairs for the Ford Motor Company, is no stranger to the White House. He served on the National Security Council staff from 2001 to 2003, including as a senior staffer for then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-preparing-mcmaster-exit-early-next-month-n852371

[poboy2]

1. Well, McMaster 'forgot to say' , so he's gotta go! -eom

[olegramps]

12. I don't know why anyone would what to associated with this nitwit cabal of idiots.

Anyone who takes a job in this administration has to desperate or a damn fascist. God help us if the Republicans are not defeated in 2018. They are a unmitigated disaster both nationally and internationally. Everyone of the cabinet positions is filled by people who don't know the ass from a hole in the ground. Just a pact of liars, war monger military career people on the government dole and outright charlatans.

[C Moon]

2. I'm hoping Trump/Pence won't be there early as next month.

[SoCalMusicLover]

8. Sadly, You're Living In A Dream Land

The way things are going, I won't be surprised if they're both still there this time next year.

[PJMcK]

10. I'm worried they'll still be there in 2021 (n/t)

[Freethinker65]

3. Aw. Was Jared too busy to even consider?

[Thomas Hurt]

6. He is busy working the family business side deals and other various and assorted corrupt practices.

[Botany]

4. " .... no one is really hiring people with Trump White House experience."

I think Tillerson is the next off the bus. https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142001412

[Weed Man]

7. Yeah, poor old Rex..

He's going to go bankrupt in a short order...

[underpants]

14. What about being a coal miner?

I just saying I've been hearing great things

[3Hotdogs]

20. Yeah, lots of new jobs are opening up.

[atreides1]

5. Smells of a coup

Kelly, Mattis and what part is General Dunford playing in this bad remake of Seven Days in May???

[hedda_foil]

9. An auto executive as Secretary of Defense. Yeah. That'll work.

[underpants]

15. Hey Robert McNamara came from Ford

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNamara

[hedda_foil]

16. At least he had the good grace to apologize eventually.

[grantcart]

19. Sort of

McNamara was the leader of the "Whiz Kids" that developed sophisticated economic analysis that significantly improved the impact of bombing targets in WWII.

Then he went to the Ford Company where he used those same type of metric analysis to significantly improve Ford's competitiveness. In the "Best and the Brightest" Halberstram records McNamara sitting outside of key dealerships to track how long customers visits were, etc.

He was briefly the President of Ford before he joined the Kennedy administration and brought significant improvements to the Pentagon.

He was so driven by numbers however that he miscalculated and misunderstood Ho Chi Minh. He failed to grasp the degree of sacrifice the Vietnamese were willing to make to achieve a 1000 year dream of independence.

[SharonAnn]

18. That worked well in the past. Not!

[NewJeffCT]

11. I'll believe it when it actually happens

We've heard that Tillerson is on his way out since last summer after the "fucking moron" comments went public, then that he would be gone after a year. He's still there.

Kelly has been rumored to be on the way out for a while, too.

[atreides1]

13. Stephen E. Biegun

https://freedomhouse.org/content/stephen-e-biegun


Stephen E. Biegun is vice president of International Governmental Affairs for Ford Motor Company. Prior to joining Ford, Mr. Biegun served as national security advisor to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Before joining the Senator’s staff, Mr. Biegun worked in the White House from 2001-2003 as Executive Secretary of the National Security Council. Prior to that, Mr. Biegun served for 14 years as a foreign policy advisor to members of both the House and the Senate. During this time, he was also Chief of Staff of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and was the Committee's senior staff member for European affairs. From 1992-1994 Mr. Biegun served as Resident Director of the International Republican Institutes democracy assistance program in Moscow, Russia.


Look at that, he worked for Senator Bill "The cat killer" Frist, what a great reference!!!

[grantcart]

17. The Ted Mack Amateur hour continues and our next contestant is from Omaha . .