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    Yea we have been doing it since 1918
     

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    Looks like McMasters is going next, just as soon as Trump finds a suitable (read inexperience but sincere ass kisser) to replace him.
     

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    Looks like McMasters is going next, just as soon as Trump finds a suitable (read inexperience but sincere ass kisser) to replace him.


    If John Bolton replaces him (as rumored) we are almost certainly starting another war.
     

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    Washington Post has announced that McMasters is out, but Sanders denies this. Now Fox has confirmed that McMasters is out



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    I can confirm per an administration official that POTUS is looking to replace McMaster but Is willing to take his time to find a successor. And that could take as long as the summer. @FoxNews
     

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    It is interesting to note that the National Security Adviser is not a Cabinet post and so therefore does not require Senate confirmation.
     

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    "Several candidates have emerged as possible McMaster replacements, including John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and Keith Kellogg, the chief of staff of the National Security Council.
    Kellogg travels with Trump on many domestic trips, in part because the president likes his company and thinks he is fun. Bolton has met with Trump several times and often agrees with the president's instincts. Trump also thinks Bolton, who regularly praises the president on Fox News Channel, is good on television."
     

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    Donald Trump’s reality television presidency may be getting more star power for season two!


    Trump has decided to remove H.R. McMaster as his national security adviser and is actively discussing Fox News contributor John Bolton as a potential successor.

    A leading contender to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is Pete Hegseth, the co-host of “Fox and Friends Weekend.

    The president named CNBC analyst and former host Larry Kudlow to replace former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn as his chief economic adviser on Wednesday.

    Heather Nauert, a former co-host of “Fox and Friends,” got promoted on Monday from being a spokeswoman for the State Department to acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs. She replaced Steve Goldstein, who was fired because he publicly contradicted the White House’s claim that Rex Tillerson knew he was being fired before Trump announced it on Twitter. (Is it any coincidence that Mike Pompeo got elevated from Langley to Foggy Bottom the morning after he aggressively went to bat for Trump on the Sunday shows?)
     

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    Russians have been into assassinations for a long time and you know what I really do not care so much one way or the other. i have read claims that the Russian research units that specialized in such things are going strong over that way. When we speak of a communist party ruled nation like mainland china or a former communist led one like Russia, regardless of the group that is in charge, there are still nationalist ambitions. Putin and other Russians would like to restore the boundaries of what was Czarist Russia. Neither they or the Chinese will ever be our true friends. Also Israel that for years owed its existence to the support of the USA has people that would like to restore its boundaries to what they were in the time of King Salomon. The moment that our interests are different from theirs they may likely turn on us. The did sink a US Navy ship once and of course claimed it was a mistake. The Brits seem to have in the last hundred or so years been our best allies and I know of no backstabbing from them on us during this time.
     

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    Our President's silence on this matter is inexplicable, and can only lead the Russians to believe that he will also not respond if chemical weapons are used in our country as well.

    Trump has not exactly been silent. He was part of four countries leaders that condemned this. Also the US Ambassador to the UN has come out with a VERY strong speech about it. You don't think she would have unless Trump OK'ed it, do you?
     

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    Trump has not exactly been silent. He was part of four countries leaders that condemned this. Also the US Ambassador to the UN has come out with a VERY strong speech about it. You don't think she would have unless Trump OK'ed it, do you?

    That depends, can he fire her?
     

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    Actually Nikki Haley was calling for sanctions while Donald Trump was still publicly debating whether Russia was responsible. There was some speculation that she has overstepped her authority.

    "The US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, has accused Russia of a “crime” worthy of action by the UN Security Council, as she backed Britain’s attempts to punish Moscow for the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury.

    The Trump administration was relatively quiet on the Russia issue for much of Wednesday after Theresa May expelled 23 Russian diplomats and blamed Moscow for this month’s nerve agent attack on the former spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter.

    But Ms Haley later came out swinging, telling a Security Council meeting that the US believes “Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom using a military-grade nerve agent”.


    Here is another article

    "Hours before Trump issued what amounted to a "you're fired" tweet directed at Rex Tillerson earlier this week, the secretary of state had publicly called out Russia as the source of a nerve agent attack on an ex-spy in Britain.

    In doing so, Tillerson went further than White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who earlier the same day had condemned the attack but made no mention of Russia.


    That led to speculation that Tillerson's firing and his harsh words on Russia ("we are outraged that Russia appears to have again engaged in such behavior") may have been linked.

    The Trump administration on Wednesday appeared to be eager to dispel that notion, with the State Department issuing a pair of statements that took a harder line against Moscow and with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley condemning Moscow at the Security Council.

    Trump has been conspicuous in not condemning Russia — either in his public statements or on his prolific Twitter feed — even after Britain's stern response to the poisoning of Skripal, the 66-year-old Russian ex-spy and his 33-year-old, daughter, Yulia, who fell ill at a shopping center in southern England earlier this month."
     

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    President Trump on Wednesday condemned Russia's alleged poisoning of a former double agent in the U.K. during a call with French President Emmanuel Macron, after he failed to raise the subject in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

    Trump and Macron "reiterated their solidarity with the United Kingdom in the wake of Russia's use of chemical weapons against private citizens on British soil and agreed on the need to take action to hold Russia accountable," the White House said in a statement.

    The White House did not spell out specific steps it might take to punish Russia for the attack.

    The call comes one day after Trump placed a congratulatory call to Putin for his reelection win, but failed to raise the nerve-agent attack and other points of tension between the two countries.




    Weak response is weak.

    Little to no incentive for Putin not to execute a similar chemical weapon attack in the United States.
     

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    Trump spoke with Putin on Tuesday and was criticized afterward, including by Republican lawmakers, for congratulating the Russian leader on his reelection Sunday. The president did so despite widespread outrage, including among other administration officials, that Putin's government has subverted democracy in Russia, continues to try to disrupt U.S. elections, is committing atrocities in Syria and recently carried out an assassination attempt in Britain using a military-grade nerve agent.


    He's clearly afraid to criticize Putin.
     

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    Washington Post has announced that McMasters is out, but Sanders denies this. Now Fox has confirmed that McMasters is out



    Fin Gomez

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    I can confirm per an administration official that POTUS is looking to replace McMaster but Is willing to take his time to find a successor. And that could take as long as the summer. @FoxNews

    And now McMaster is out. I guess WaPo and Fox are a more reliable source than the President's official spokesperson. Was she lying, or does she just not know whats going on? What's that say about this administration?

    Trump is on his third national security adviser in 13 months. How many will he have gone through by the end of 4 years? 10 or 12?
     
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