WTF is Nazi boy doing now?

ppaca wrote:http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-gives-bannon-nsc-role/ar-AAmmAGL?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U348DHP

Limits joint chiefs of staff?

In one of three executive actions Saturday, President Trump reshuffled the National Security Council to include his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and limited the roles of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The memorandum makes the chief strategist a regular attendee of the principals committee, the Cabinet-level interagency forum that deals with policy issues affecting national security. For Bannon, the Washington outsider who ran the conservative website Breitbart News, it's another area of federal government in which he will have influence.

The Trump strategist is already considered a controversial choice for chief strategist because of Breitbart News's tendency to cater to white nationalists and previous comments he's made (i.e. "turn on the hate").

The memo also stated that the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff will attend the principals committee meetings when issues related to their responsibilities are needed. According to The Hill, both officials have been regular attendees to principals committee meetings.

You can read the full memo here

Did you just get a woody little markle?

ppaca wrote:http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-gives-bannon-nsc-role/ar-AAmmAGL?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U348DHP

Limits joint chiefs of staff?

In one of three executive actions Saturday, President Trump reshuffled the National Security Council to include his chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, and limited the roles of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The memorandum makes the chief strategist a regular attendee of the principals committee, the Cabinet-level interagency forum that deals with policy issues affecting national security. For Bannon, the Washington outsider who ran the conservative website Breitbart News, it's another area of federal government in which he will have influence.

The Trump strategist is already considered a controversial choice for chief strategist because of Breitbart News's tendency to cater to white nationalists and previous comments he's made (i.e. "turn on the hate").

The memo also stated that the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff will attend the principals committee meetings when issues related to their responsibilities are needed. According to The Hill, both officials have been regular attendees to principals committee meetings.

You can read the full memo here

Did you just get a woody little markle?

othershoe1030 wrote:
With all of the radical choices being made by this brand new inexperienced group it is difficult to point to the very poorest choice although this one has got to be in the top ten.

With virtually no understanding of international relations or history for that matter the president chooses to turn for advice to his right wing white nationalist crony who wants to blow up the establishment.

At a time when he needs all the advice he can get he turns away the two people who no doubt have some valuable insights. What could possibly go wrong?

RealLindaL wrote:

othershoe1030 wrote:
With all of the radical choices being made by this brand new inexperienced group it is difficult to point to the very poorest choice although this one has got to be in the top ten.

With virtually no understanding of international relations or history for that matter the president chooses to turn for advice to his right wing white nationalist crony who wants to blow up the establishment.

At a time when he needs all the advice he can get he turns away the two people who no doubt have some valuable insights. What could possibly go wrong?

What indeed, othershoe?   This infatuation with Bannon is getting out of hand and very dangerous, IMHO.

Telstar wrote:Didn't Bannon say that Jews raise their kids to be whiny brats and he didn't want his girls going to school with Jews? Perhaps Jared Kushner needs to have a long talk with big daddy Trump.

ppaca wrote:It appears more and more Bannon is pulling the strings and Trump is just following his order's.

ppaca wrote:No problem. Trump is not running the country because he doesn't know how and refused to listen to people that did because of his swamp thingy. He surrounded himself other than Mattis with people who will run it for him and make him think they are yes men.

I just hope the GOP realize this before it's too late.

RealLindaL wrote:

Telstar wrote:Didn't Bannon say that Jews raise their kids to be whiny brats and he didn't want his girls going to school with Jews? Perhaps Jared Kushner needs to have a long talk with big daddy Trump.

Yes, Bannon is a known bigot.  The Jared situation in this regard has been a complete mystery to me from the beginning, and, though I admit it's nothing  but pure speculation, since he and Trump appear to get along so well the only conclusion I seem to be able to draw is that Jared's heritage and religion mean far, far less to him than his relationship with his rich and powerful father-in-law.  In other words, I seriously doubt Kushner is making much noise if any about Bannon.

ppaca wrote:I have no problem with Jared Kushner and they can to to other country's (wonder why they don't). I just don't believe Trump or is son-in-law is having much say so.

Read an article a couple days ago that congress is just waiting to put Pence in that position, so I wish Trump would get it together and not listen to his handler's and make decision's from recommendation's from General's and Mattis and Sec of State if he ever get's confirmed. We don't need Pence as Pres. I believe the General's know this is adding fuel to the fire. Now Iraq says it may ban anyone from here arriving, that would certainly hinder fighting against ISIS.

RealLindaL wrote:Would someone like to correct my reading of the following excerpt from the linked MSN article?  The way I see it, the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs are to stay out of NSC principals committee meetings unless specific "issues related to their responsibilities are needed."  So, even though those two officials have apparently always in the past attended the principals committee meetings, they are now not invited unless there's a specific issue they're involved in.  

So it sure looks to me as if the meetings are being closed off to important officials (and watched over by Bannon) rather than being opened up.   And I don't see how that's a good thing.   Just the opposite, in fact.

(Of course we could get Kellyanne to interpret the excerpt in some other way, since she always knows exactly what people really mean, even when they say something completely different from her asserted interpretation.)


"The memo also stated that the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will attend the principals committee meetings when issues related to their responsibilities are needed. According to The Hill, both officials have been regular attendees to principals committee meetings."