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Steve Bannon is off the National Security Council

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smokeymicpot

Beat EviLore at pool.
https://twitter.com/justinsink/status/849645486768304129

*BANNON REMOVED FROM NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL ROLE IN SHAKEUP via @JenniferJJacobs

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/...rom-national-security-council-role-in-shakeup

President Donald Trump reorganized his National Security Council on Wednesday, removing his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and downgrading the role of his Homeland Security Adviser, Tom Bossert, according to a person familiar with the decision and a regulatory filing.

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was given responsibility for setting the agenda for meetings of the NSC or the Homeland Security Council, and was authorized to delegate that authority to Bossert, at his discretion, according to the filing.

Under the move, the national intelligence director, Dan Coats, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, are again "regular attendees" of the NSC's principals committee.

Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, was elevated to the National Security Council's principals committee at the beginning of Trump's presidency. The move drew criticism from some members of Congress and Washington's foreign policy establishment.

EDIT 3:NEW: Bannon's role on NSC was to look over Gen. Flynn's shoulder, a White House official said.

He never went to meeting.

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/849647733556346880

EDIT 4:Bannon remains chief strategist for POTUS and an adviser on nat'l security/for. affairs. But he will not be part of NSC, per WH sources

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/849648093696073729

EDIT 5:sr WH official tells me Bannon was only on NSC to keep an eye on Flynn & "de-operationalize NSC from Rice" & that he never went to a meeting
https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/849648807138783232

Same official says the president made the decision, this was the deal from the beginning, and "we all knew Flynn had issues"

https://twitter.com/RosieGray/status/849649922903289857

EDIT 6:

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KoopaTheCasual

Junior Member
WHAT?!

What shakeup?! What's happening?! Am I allowed to be excited??

*celebrates the demotion of white supremacist*

Edit: Just caught OP's edit. Niceeeee.
 

xxracerxx

Don't worry, I'll vouch for them.
What if Bannon and Bossert are the ones telling him the loudest not to attack North Korea?

Twist!
 
Seems random, I wonder if it has something to do with russia investigation or he just said something incredibly stupid involving recent Syria or North Korea actions.

But anyway, good.
 

JustenP88

I earned 100 Gamerscore™ for collecting 300 widgets and thereby created Trump's America
And now we wait for the other shoe to drop... Something prompted this and I doubt it was the sudden realization that Calamity Bannon doesn't belong anywhere near the castle.

Incoming Kushner is a mastermind zionist tweetstorm incoming from the alt right.

But Jared Kushner is gonna #MAGA and take our country back from the globalist, Jewish bankers!
 

Goro Majima

Kitty Genovese Member
Distancing himself from Bannon preemptively due to the investigation?

Or he's going to war with North Korea and needs saner voices?
 
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