Trump scrubs 70 Obama holdovers from NSC

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President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.

Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.

Many were loaners from other agencies and have been sent back. Others left government work.

The NSC, which is the president’s personal staff, was rocked when a “whistleblower” leveled charges that led to Trump’s impeachment.

Last week, one key official who testified against Trump at a House hearing on the Ukraine affair that led to impeachment was sent packing. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was returned to the Pentagon. His twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also given the boot. Trump had expressed displeasure that Alexander Vindman had testified against him when the Ukraine specialist said he did not like the phone conversation between the president and a newly elected president of Ukraine.

Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior presidents had a much smaller NSC team.

O’Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.

“This month, we will complete the right-sizing goal Ambassador O’Brien outlined in October, and in fact, may exceed that target by drawing down even more positions,” John Ullyot, the NSC’s senior director for strategic communications, told Secrets.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...dman-trump-scrubs-70-obama-holdovers-from-nsc
 
Good its about time the Obama holdovers are let go. There were too many leaks from the NSC perhaps this will solve some of that.
 
ziggy said:
O’Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.
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Ned Ryun, in his new book "Restoring Our Republic", cited the same number for Bush, and cited JFK as only having 12.

Shrinking the size of the Administrative State is one of the solutions offered up by Ryun, for the people to take back power from the massive ruling, gov't bureaucracy.
 
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ziggy said:
President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.

Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.

Many were loaners from other agencies and have been sent back. Others left government work.

The NSC, which is the president’s personal staff, was rocked when a “whistleblower” leveled charges that led to Trump’s impeachment.

Last week, one key official who testified against Trump at a House hearing on the Ukraine affair that led to impeachment was sent packing. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was returned to the Pentagon. His twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also given the boot. Trump had expressed displeasure that Alexander Vindman had testified against him when the Ukraine specialist said he did not like the phone conversation between the president and a newly elected president of Ukraine.

Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior presidents had a much smaller NSC team.

O’Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.

“This month, we will complete the right-sizing goal Ambassador O’Brien outlined in October, and in fact, may exceed that target by drawing down even more positions,” John Ullyot, the NSC’s senior director for strategic communications, told Secrets.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...dman-trump-scrubs-70-obama-holdovers-from-nsc
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BRAVO!!! ABOUT TIME.

HE SHOULD FIRE EVERYONE IN THE ADMINISTRATION WHO WAS IN PLACE BEFORE 01/20/2017.

THEY CAN THEN INTERVIEW INDIVDUALLY TO SEE IF THEY ARE THERE TO HELP, OR HURT THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.

“This month, we will complete the right-sizing goal Ambassador O’Brien outlined in October, and in fact, may exceed that target by drawing down even more positions,” John Ullyot, the NSC’s senior director for strategic communications, told Secrets."



SUH-WEEET!!
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NOW , MR. BARR ABOUT THOSE LEAKING AND ACTIVELY WORKING TO UNDERMINE THE DULY-ELECTED ADMINISTRATION....


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Hello ziggy,

ziggy said:
President Trump is making good on his promises to “drain the swamp” and cut Obama-era holdovers from his staffs, especially the critical and recently controversial National Security Council.

Officials confirmed that Trump and national security adviser Robert O’Brien have cut 70 positions inherited from former President Barack Obama, who had fattened the staff to 200.

Many were loaners from other agencies and have been sent back. Others left government work.

The NSC, which is the president’s personal staff, was rocked when a “whistleblower” leveled charges that led to Trump’s impeachment.

Last week, one key official who testified against Trump at a House hearing on the Ukraine affair that led to impeachment was sent packing. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was returned to the Pentagon. His twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, was also given the boot. Trump had expressed displeasure that Alexander Vindman had testified against him when the Ukraine specialist said he did not like the phone conversation between the president and a newly elected president of Ukraine.

Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior presidents had a much smaller NSC team.

O’Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.

“This month, we will complete the right-sizing goal Ambassador O’Brien outlined in October, and in fact, may exceed that target by drawing down even more positions,” John Ullyot, the NSC’s senior director for strategic communications, told Secrets.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...dman-trump-scrubs-70-obama-holdovers-from-nsc
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Who needs diplomacy or more complete knowledge and contacts when you simply shoot from the hip and negotiate with threats?
 
Since entering the White House, Trump has relied on staffs smaller than previous administrations and has noted how prior presidents had a much smaller NSC team.

O’Brien recently said that former President George W. Bush handled the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with 100 NSC aides, a model he is instituting.
 
Trump reminds me of the bull-headed type who gets a product, never reads the instructions (saying they are for sissies,) and proceeds to disable every single safety feature engineered into the product.

In this case, some of the safety features of the NSC are the ability to gather knowledge and create lines of communication, and having more knowledgeable minds to raise an alert when something which appears very wrong is looming up.

With Trump, there are no problems. Only those annoying people who keep worrying about them. Everything is a perception anyway, so if you just create a new perception the old ones fade away like magic. The only thing you need to protect yourself from yourself is to change the perception of what's going on.

Here's the analogy: If Trump bought a Ferrari, the first thing he would do would be to remove the brakes. There wouldn't even be a brake pedal. All that extra weight just makes the car slower. Then he would remove the rear view mirrors, claiming 'We don't care about what's behind us!' There would be no air filter and no idiot lights or gauges. And no speedometer. And who needs seat belts or air bags? They just get in the way and what a hassle. Emergency brake? That just gets in the way of reaching over to grab the privates of your passenger.

How is he going to stop the thing?

He isn't. He doesn't want to, and he only does whatever he wants.

Naturally, this is all making a big assumption.

That Trump knows how to drive.
 
Walt said:
The leaks seem heavily linked to trump's political appointees, and their infighting. Their infighting is getting worse.
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Leftists tend to do that. -- especially when they're being outed, the fucking cockroaches.

I love the flushing sound this swamp makes when it's being drained. :)
 
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