Steve Bannon.

[Belsnickel]

(04-05-2017, 01:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: It appears your President has heard your pleas:

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/bannon-removed-national-security-council-152955543.html



I'm sure we'll all applaud POTUS for doing this sooner (within 90 days) rather than later

Nope, and here's why (a quote from the source article Yahoo used, but didn't pull themselves):

Quote:A White House official said that Bannon was placed on the committee in part to monitor Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and never attended a meeting. He’s no longer needed with McMaster in charge of the council, the official said.

One, if we go back to the beginning of all of this there were reports Trump didn't even really know that he had done this. So the excuse being given here could very well be bullshit. However, even if Trump did put Bannon there I still have two big problems that mean I give him no credit. The first is that the NSC is supposed to be apolitical. Putting a political strategist on it, even just to do that job, is ludicrous. You can't tell me there wasn't anyone close to Trump that could have done the job that wasn't a political strategist. The second reason is because if you needed someone to keep an eye on your NSA, then maybe he shouldn't have been made the NSA to begin with! And if it wasn't a problem with Flynn specifically but just the general issue that has been going on with having Trump insiders shadowing appointees in the government to insure loyalty then there is still a bigger problem. That is unprecedented in this country, but it does have precedent in other places. Places that we don't like drawing comparisons to.

So no, there is no credit to be given for this because even though he was removed there was no acknowledgment of the fact it was problematic he was there in the first place, and that the reason they give for it is extremely problematic as well.