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Photek wrote:Bannon taken off National Security Council.

Something's gonna break I reckon.

Garth wrote:

Photek wrote:Bannon taken off National Security Council.

That was quick

Memento Mori wrote:

Garth wrote:

Photek wrote:Bannon taken off National Security Council.

That was quick

I suspect this was Mattis' doing.

Memento Mori wrote:

Garth wrote:

Photek wrote:Bannon taken off National Security Council.

That was quick

I suspect this was Mattis' doing.

I think it’s going to be the biggest story. It’s such an important story for our country and the world. It is one of the big stories of our time.

twitter.com/TomNamako/status/849695710203215872

Memento Mori wrote:Easy D the most gotten to man alive? Surely not.

Harry Ola wrote:And of course, it is a crisis that if they do something, puts them on the other side of the fence to Russia. Oh yes, this is going to get messy.

Moggy wrote:

Harry Ola wrote:And of course, it is a crisis that if they do something, puts them on the other side of the fence to Russia. Oh yes, this is going to get messy.

Assuming his Russian masters let him.

Affordable Care Act Gains Majority Approval for First Time


Story Highlights

55% approve, up from 42% right after 2016 election
40% want to keep law but make significant changes
30% want to repeal; 26% want to keep law as it is



http://www.gallup.com/poll/207671/affor ... -time.aspx

Alvin Flummux wrote:

Memento Mori wrote:

Garth wrote:

Photek wrote:Bannon taken off National Security Council.

That was quick

I suspect this was Mattis' doing.

Maybe also McMaster.

"This seems to me a return to normalcy," said Elliott Abrams, who served on the NSC under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush and was interviewed by Trump for the post of deputy secretary of state. "McMaster is settling in, hiring people, and beginning to influence the way foreign policy is conducted."

“It really reflects well on H.R. McMaster, who has orchestrated all the key moves behind the scenes in advance of announcing them and gotten their approval,” added David Rothkopf, author of two histories of the National Security Council, most recently National Insecurity, which looked at the Bush and Obama years.

“That is a sign of a smart, effective bureaucrat and leader. This restores the traditional structures to the NSC. It is putting in place a professional team of national security advisers," Rothkopf added. "It gives McMaster more authority and restores the roles of the military and intelligence leadership."

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But Rothkopf and others noted that giving McMaster control over the NSC doesn't give him sole authority over national security decision-making inside Trump's White House, where Bannon remains top strategist and where son-in-law Jared Kushner holds enormous sway.

“Does [Trump] respect the process he created?" asked Rothkopf. "He is a mercurial guy. He can’t allow himself the luxury of backsliding. He can’t allow Bannon to back-door this process. This is easy to undo.”

Donald Trump’s chief strategist Stephen Bannon has called the president’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner a “cuck” and a “globalist” during a time of high tension between the two top aides, several Trump administration officials told The Daily Beast.

The fighting between Kushner and Bannon has been “nonstop” in recent weeks, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. It’s been an “open secret” that Bannon and Kushner often clash “face-to-face,” according to senior officials.

One official said Bannon has lately complained about Kushner trying to “shiv him and push him out the door” and likened him to a fifth column in the White House.

“[Steve] recently vented to us about Jared being a ‘globalist’ and a ‘cuck’…He actually said ‘cuck,’ as in “cuckservative,’” the administration official told The Daily Beast.