Bannon on the NSC

Some of these maneuvers and happenings since Jan. 20th seem surreal:


'President Donald Trump further reorganized the National Security Council on Monday after he came under sharp criticism for ousting the country's most senior intelligence and military officials as regular members of the Principals Committee -- and installing one of his top political advisers on the key panel.

On Monday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer announced that Trump will reinstate the director of the CIA as a regular Principals Committee member. But the President will keep his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, as a regular committee member -- a move that came under fire -- while the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will not be regular attendees.
The committee is a Cabinet-level group of agencies focused on national security that was established by President George H. W. Bush in 1989"


George Sr. is my last GOP vote for President.

As ex-Director of the CIA I can't imagine that Sr. thinks this move by Trump to put more extremism and less intel on the Council is anything but a dangerous move.

 

Every thing that guy does puts him "under fire." Fortunately, he really doesn't give a ****.

 

I think W and Trump just wouldn't get along at all:

"Former White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten said last year that President George W. Bush instructed his top political adviser, Karl Rove, never to appear at a National Security Council meeting.

It wasn't that Bush didn't value Rove's counsel, Bolten said — clearly he did.

"But the president also knew that the signal he wanted to send to the rest of his administration, the signal he wanted to send to the public, and the signal he especially wanted to send to the military, is that, 'The decisions I'm making that involve life and death for the people in uniform will not be tainted by any political decisions,' " Bolten remembered.

 

Trump hasn't any love for the Bush family. He blew away Jeb who had almost as much money as Hillary. Like a good CEO he has people whose opinion he respects and seeks out. In other words he cares more about reaching the right decision rather that appearances.