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Has the fear of grownups begun to set in at the White House?
Originally Posted February 17, 2017
At first I was puzzled; how when you have just had to fire your first choice for National Security Advisor to the POTUS - can you not have made sure your 2nd choice would take the job? Is 45 so rusty from his run at The Apprentice, that he had lost track of the real in-the-world logistics of making high profile selections in front of the public?
Then the news started to break that Vice Admiral Harward had more concerns than just the enormous 24-hour a day time demands of the job but that he had tow other serious concerns.
Hard to believe, but on is that he came to believe that he would not be able to choose his own staff.
In this time when the ability to be shocked has been anesthetized, that is shocking.
And, because he had no guarantees that the National Security Council — and not Trump’s political advisers — would be in charge of policy.
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Still, pretty weird that this all did not work its way out before 45 made the announcement and has not mis-fired TWICE on perhaps the most crucial National Security selection he will make.
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The points above are circulating widely. I took them from:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-admiral-turns-down-us-nati…/
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