US Politics - Trump cancels summit having to do with North Korea

Stephen King - Salem's Lot wrote:“We’d all be scared if we knew what was swept under the carpet of each other’s minds”

Kelly moves to control the information Trump sees

A new process, laid out in two memos circulating in the West Wing this week, is supposed to ensure Kelly vets everything that hits the Resolute desk.

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Peter Crisp wrote:Kim's threat against the UK backfire as he doesn't realise that "miserable end" is actually an upgrade for most here.

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Peter Crisp wrote:Kim's threat against the UK backfire as he doesn't realise that "miserable end" is actually an upgrade for most here.

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There’s only four comments, don’t be so lazy Peter you could have quoted them.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a memo Friday that bans any new transgender men or women from joining the military, but also leaves it to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to determine the fates of transgender service members currently in uniform.

Trump's directive also covers the Department of Homeland Security, to include the Coast Guard.

The presidential memo, which Trump has transmitted to the Pentagon, contained three major guidelines.

First, it directed that the Pentagon maintain a ban on any new accessions of transgender personnel into the military. Second, it halted the use of any Pentagon or Department of Homeland Security funds for sex reassignment surgery. Third, it directed Mattis to determine whether transgender personnel currently in uniform should be allowed to stay.

Sebastian Gorka is resigning his post as Deputy Assistant to President Trump, multiple sources familiar with the situation have told The Federalist.

In a blunt resignation letter, the national security and counterterrorism expert expressed dissatisfaction with the current state of the Trump administration. “[G]iven recent events, it is clear to me that forces that do not support the MAGA promise are – for now – ascendant within the White House,” Gorka wrote. “As a result, the best and most effective way I can support you, Mr. President, is from outside the People’s House.”

Gorka’s letter expressed unhappiness with the direction the Trump administration’s foreign policy has taken, as signaled by the president’s recent speech on Afghanistan:

Sebastian Gorka, White House Adviser, Is Forced Out of Job, Officials Say

Sebastian Gorka, an outspoken adviser to President Trump, has been forced out of his position at the White House, two administration officials said on Friday.

One of the officials said that the president’s chief of staff, John F. Kelly, had telegraphed his lack of interest in keeping Mr. Gorka over the last week in internal discussions.

Mr. Gorka, a deputy assistant to the president, had been on vacation for at least the last two weeks, with no clear assigned duties to hand to others, that official said.

The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about personnel issues.

Efforts to reach Mr. Gorka on Friday night were not immediately successful.

Mr. Gorka, who had advised the president on national security, demonstrated a penchant for controversy during his run in the White House. He memorably declared that “the alpha males are back” as an assertion of the distance between the Obama administration and the current one.

He has also been a vocal defender of the Trump administration’s efforts to temporarily ban travel from some predominantly Muslim countries; he has said violence is a fundamental part of Islam and emanates from the language of the Quran. His hard-line views on Islam have prompted his critics to accuse him of Islamophobia.

Mr. Gorka, 46, has also been accused of having links to far-right groups in Europe.

Mr. Gorka is a former editor at Breitbart News, a right-wing website, and a friend of Stephen K. Bannon. Mr. Bannon, who was until last week Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, has since returned to Breitbart News as executive chairman.

Sebastian Gorka resigns from White House

Sebastian Gorka, an outspoken and combative defender of President Donald Trump's national security agenda, has left his position as a White House counterterrorism adviser, two administration officials told CNN.

The news, which came late Friday evening, was widely expected in the West Wing, which has now seen high-profile departures on successive Fridays for several weeks.

Gorka was one of Trump's most prominent cheerleaders, frequently hitting the airwaves to defend the President's policies and public statements.

But his role outside of television hits was unclear. He did not play a major policymaking role, according to administration officials, and was not a member of the National Security Council.

Gorka submitted his resignation to retired Gen. John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, on Friday, a White House official said. The official said it had become clear to Gorka that he would not be allowed to have a meaningful role going forward.

Kelly, who assumed the chief of staff role in late July, has been conducting a review of the West Wing that includes assessing individual staffers' portfolios.

A person familiar with the situation said Kelly was coming up empty when it came to Gorka's role, though he recognized his efforts to promote Trump's message on television.

Gorka's TV appearances -- during which he often sparred with hosts and reporters -- were popular with Trump, however, complicating decisions about his future.

But most White House staffers came to see the departure last week of chief strategist Steve Bannon as a sign that Gorka's days were numbered.
Gorka's work for Trump goes back as far as 2015; Federal Election Commission filings showed that Gorka was paid $8,000 that October to be a policy consultant for the Trump campaign.

Gorka also was a member of the White House's Strategic Initiatives Group, which he described as a focal point for task forces collaborating with people outside government. His resignation adds to a long list of high-profile departures from the White House, including chief strategist Steve Bannon, chief of staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer.

A CNN K-File review of Gorka's public comments throughout the presidential campaign shows that even after his work for Trump, the former Breitbart national security editor offered stinging critiques of his future boss's rhetoric on key foreign policy issues from terrorism to Russia and China.

Gorka, a US citizen who was born in Britain and has Hungarian parents, was known for his dire warnings of Islamic terrorism while at Breitbart.

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captain red dog wrote:strawberry float Sheriff Joe. He had a consistent no tolerance policy for all law breakers, aside himself.

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