Extraterrestrial Beings.
Paranormal Activity.
Mysterious Circumstances.
Inexplicable Responses.
No, no, I’m NOT talking about the disappearance of aircraft and ships in the North Atlantic Ocean.
What I’m referring to is much more sinister than something as trivial as that kind of hocus-pocus.
My triangle is about Spicer (Sean) and Bannon (Steve) and McMaster (H.R.).
Something, at least, on the surface of it, that portends to give ALL of us tons more entertainment!
Witness our favorite press secretary’s imitation of Harry Houdini yesterday…
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said yesterday that if President Donald John Trump’s newly appointed National Security Adviser, H.R. McMaster, wanted to remove chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council’s principals committee, the president would “take that under serious consideration.”
“The president has made clear to him he’s got full authority to structure the national security team the way he wants,” Spicer said of McMaster, whom The Weave appointed Monday as his new National Security Adviser. Spicer made the remarks in the daily White House’s version of The Twilight Zone briefing.
When asked if McMaster’s control over his team would extend to control of the principals committee, and the potential removal of the chief strategist, Spicer said that McMaster “would come to the president and make that recommendation, but the president would take that under high—you know, serious consideration.”
Spicer added that in meetings with people for the position of national security adviser over the weekend, “The president made it very clear with McMaster and the other candidates that they had 100% control and authority over the national security committee.”
McMaster, thus far, has remained ‘silent’ and has NOT indicated any changes he would like to make regarding the National Security Council.
Spicer said that General McMaster, currently a three-star lieutenant general, would remain on active duty while serving as National Security Adviser. As such, if he retains his three-star rank, his appointment would be subject to Senate confirmation [which should NOT present any issues at all], according to a statement from a Senate Armed Services Committee aide. If he moves down a notch to a two-star major general, he wouldn’t be subject to Senate confirmation, The Washington Post is reporting.
Trump last month took the unusual step of adding Bannon, a former media and financial executive who was an architect of the president’s campaign strategy, to the National Security Council’s principals committee [gigantic misstep by Carrot Top], while downgrading the status of the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The move – which meant Bannon would be invited to ALL council meetings – drew criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, who questioned whether Bannon’s addition would insert domestic politics into national-security decision-making.
This has ALL of the earmarks of a potential tsunami of epic proportions, aunts and uncles.
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