Washington – The White House on Sunday said the addition of President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, to regular meetings of the country’s top national security officials was essential to the commander in chief’s decision-making process.
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Trump took steps Saturday to begin restructuring the White House National Security Council, adding the senior adviser to the principals committee, which includes the secretaries of state and defense. At the same time, Trump said his director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would attend “where issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed.”
Bannon served in the Navy before attending Harvard Business School, working at Goldman Sachs, starting his own media-focused boutique investment banking firm and later heading the ultraconservative outlet Breitbart News.
“He is a former naval officer. He’s got a tremendous understanding of the world and the geopolitical landscape that we have now,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer told ABC’s “This Week.”
Spicer said “having the chief strategist for the president in those meetings who has a significant military background to help make — guide what the president’s final analysis is going to be is crucial.”
But to Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, the NSC “sadly has some really questionable people on it,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” citing Bannon among them.
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Republican Congressman Charles Dent (PA) found out that one of his son’s high school friend’s family, who are Syrian Christian were detained in Philadelphia airport and deported to Syria this morning! Dent has come out against Trump’s Order, which has created chaos for families with legal visas here. DON’T TRUMP ON ME!
Hey Trumpites:
Your horse Trump and his anti-Semitic ass Bannon are real friends to the Jews…On Holocaust Remembrance Day they use the same argument the Russians have used for decades, justifying omitting any reference to Jews killed in the Shoah because others too were killed Nazis.
Now the ass is on the NSC, replacing senior military officers.
Hail Victory indeed. Such fools you are.
Great move. Steve Bannon gets it & wont let us the voters get sidelined by the military industrial complex interests.
While Truimp could fire the Joint Chief of Staff if he had the chutzpah to confront Trump with reality, that might be the equivalent of the Saturday night massacre. Safer to sideline him and stick to the alternative facts of the alt right.
Bannon is a conspiracy theorist who comes from that ridiculous sensationalist right wing conspiracy “news” site Breitbart News. Such a man with no knowledge of national security should displace experienced professionals. Yuuge mistake by Trump. So sad.