Trump Slashes National Security Staff After Whistleblower Complaint

[Indus]

Trump Orders Cut to National Security Staff After Whistle-Blower

President Donald Trump has ordered a substantial reduction in the staff of the National Security Council, according to five people familiar with the plans, as the White House confronts an impeachment inquiry touched off by a whistle-blower complaint related to the agency’s work.

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Trump Slashes National Security Staff After Whistleblower Complaint

President Trump ordered a big cut to the national security staff after the whistleblower complaint about his Ukraine call.

www.politicususa.com

President Donald Trump has ordered a substantial reduction in the staff of the National Security Council, according to five people familiar with the plans, as the White House confronts an impeachment inquiry touched off by a whistle-blower complaint related to the agency’s work.

The request to limit the size of the NSC staff was conveyed to senior agency officials by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and O’Brien this week. The whistle-blower complaint, focused on Trump’s conduct in a July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been followed by damaging reports on the president’s private conversations with other world leaders.

The New York Times has reported that the whistle-blower was a CIA officer who was at one point detailed to the White House. The complaint has become the driving motivation behind House Democrats’ impeachment effort, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi began last week.

The White House is insisting that their motivation for cutting the national security staff is a transition to new leadership and to make the agency run more efficiently.


Do you believe this?

 

[brycejones]

The only one who matters in this administration is Trump.

 

[alien42]

just another example of Trump doing something to benefit himself and endanger our national security in the process.

 

[Jhhnn]

Revenge, assholes! There are traitors among you & we will purge them all! Hail Trump, chosen by God to lead us!

 

[Pohemi]

Do you believe this?

If Trump went on the news to tell America that he eats babies, I'd believe that faster than 99% of the bullshit that comes out of his face (or Twitter) every day. I believe very close to nothing that the orange clown or his cronies say publicly.

 

[Indus]

If Trump went on the news to tell America that he eats babies, I'd believe that faster than 99% of the bullshit that comes out of his face (or Twitter) every day. I believe very close to nothing that the orange clown or his cronies say publicly.

I would believe someone at their word

 

[dank69]

This is good because national security is overrated compared to loyalty.

 

[Indus]

This is good because national security is overrated compared to loyalty.

Russia if you're listening Alaska is free to come take over!

I have the absolute right to give Alaska to my friend Putin!

The lamestream media and lying new york times know nothing about the truth. All fake news all the time!

 

[balloonshark]

But why does he continue to do all of these things if he is innocent?

Would this be considered obstruction of justice?

 

[Jhhnn]

This is good because national security is overrated compared to loyalty.

How dare you besmirch the great wisdom of the Supreme Leader! He needs no expert advice because he already knows everything!

 

[interchange]

Yeah....I don't see this working out for Trump.

 

[Victorian Gray]

The only one who matters in this administration is Trump.

That's what happens when you elect a guy who wants to be a dictator.

 

[brycejones]

That's what happens when you elect a guy who wants to be a dictator.

Well it is exactly what certain forum members voted for.

 

[Bitek]

Clearly collective punishment against the staff responsible for maintaining our national security.

Who here feels safer with Trump as president?

Trump's actions continue to endanger the country. Are there really no patriots on the right that will stand against this, or are they all quivering cowards?
Shameful.

 

[trenchfoot]

Part of the "getting even" side of Trump that practically dictates so many of his underlying motives and "policy decision making".

This childish "I get hit I'm gonna hit back even harder" mentality of his has gotten him into so much more trouble than if he'd just realize that he is the one and only source of every single problem he's having to deal with.

That his impulsive retaliatory nature is one of the numerous debilitating things about him that his base adores and praises him for simply makes things all the worse for the nation.

 

[hal2kilo]

Get those deep state traitors away from me. I need some privacy.

 

[Jhhnn]

Thugs gonna thug. That's our Donnie. "Nice little (Country, State, Agency, Department, whatever) you got there. I really hate having to destroy it but you're leaving me no choice."

 

[Victorian Gray]

Well it is exactly what certain forum members voted for.

Yep. And, for the most part, they knew exactly what they were voting for.

 

[Thebobo]

WPE!

 

[Fanatical Meat]

So.
Much.
Winning!

 

[SMOGZINN]

Yep. And, for the most part, they knew exactly what they were voting for.

Not really, they were not smart enough to really understand. They were the ones that thought that burning something down makes it better.

 

[HomerJS]

Of course he did.

Predictor of Trump's future actions. What would a 5 year old do and did Obama enact it?

 

[Jhhnn]

Not really, they were not smart enough to really understand. They were the ones that thought that burning something down makes it better.

It's not an issue of intelligence. It's an issue of what people are taught to believe in & their attitudes about the role of govt & the rest of America. When Free Market Libertopia is the ideal fuckeduppedness becomes the result.

 

[SMOGZINN]

It's not an issue of intelligence. It's an issue of what people are taught to believe in & their attitudes about the role of govt & the rest of America. When Free Market Libertopia is the ideal fuckeduppedness becomes the result.

I tend to think that intelligence allows us to analyze Free Market Libertopia and see that it is complete bullshit. If it was only partial bullshit maybe it could fool the intelligent but overly idealistic, but there is little in that ideology that passes the sniff test.

But I guess you are right. I remember being young and stupid once too, sometimes it is less about intelligence and more about having enough experience to put it in context.