White House dismisses NSC aide after harsh criticism of Trump

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

The White House abruptly dismissed a senior National Security Council aide on Friday after receiving reports that he had publicly laced into the president and his senior aides, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump at an event hosted by a Washington think tank.

The aide, Craig Deare, was serving as the NSC's senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Earlier in the week, at a private, off-the-record roundtable hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center for a group of about two dozen scholars, Deare harshly criticized the president and his chief strategist Steve Bannon and railed against the dysfunction paralyzing the Trump White House, according to a source familiar with the situation.

He complained in particular that senior national security aides do not have access to the president -- and gave a detailed and embarrassing readout of Trump's call with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto.

Deare did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for the National Security Council said the White House does not discuss personnel issues.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/white-house-nsc-aide-craig-deare-dismissed-235175

[Eugene]

1. So, however bad the Trump White House looks from the outside, it's even worse in reality?

Got it.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I expect more purges

but then these folks can give the "press" a look inside the dysfunction.

[LuckyLib]

3. More and more insiders, career specialists in agencies, will be doing this. They don't want to

tarnish their careers (much less their souls) by being connected to this pResident -- so why not speak out, tell it like it is, and get fired? A badge of honor as far as I'm concerned.

We need to see more of this!

[elleng]

7. YES!

[George II]

4. Kim Jong Trump

[TomCADem]

5. God Forbid That They Have Someone With Actual National Security Experience...

...serving in national security.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. This is the sort of thing that causes leaks...

[Honeycombe8]

8. Oh, my. He must've been at the breaking point.

To openly criticize the boss in front of others and even read an entire transcript for critical purposes...I think he would've been fired no matter who he worked for. He was probably at a breaking point and just couldn't take it any more.

I feel for the guy. I hope he finds a good job right away. This is gonna hurt his career.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. I guess "off-the-record" doesn't mean what it used to.

The walls have ears.

[OKNancy]

10. kick