Time to play Connect the Dots, a game which tells you everything you need to know about Trump world. You recall that last week Kakistocracy KKKaroline declared that the SignalGate matter was a “closed” case. Perhaps in her purview, but she’s in zero position to formally close the matter. Then we found out Thursday that the Armed Services Committee had ordered a Pentagon watchdog group to do an investigation. And we also found out that Laura Loomer, the QAnon, Deep State, 9/11 conspiracy theorist was in the White House on Wednesday giving Trump advice on whom to hire and fire.
This is a five-alarm fire in the making. It will explode into flames soon, it’s just a question of when. Loomer claims that she had done “research” and the heads, they started a rollin.’ “Loomer, in the leadup to Wednesday’s meeting with Trump, had complained to sympathetic administration officials that she had been excluded from the NSC vetting process as Waltz built his staff, according to one person familiar with the matter. She believes Waltz was too reliant in the process on “neocons” — shorthand for the more hawkish neoconservatives within the Republican Party — as well as what she perceived as “not-MAGA-enough” types, the person said.”
Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican who sits on Senate committees overseeing the military and national intelligence, said it “raises eyebrows” when “there is a firing of people on the National Security Council or their staff, particularly people that we have respect for, who were part of the Intel community to begin with here in the Senate.”
Waltz, in the first days of Trump’s return to Washington, sent about 160 nonpolitical detailees assigned to the NSC back to their home agencies to ensure those at the White House were committed to implementing Trump’s America First agenda.
The move sidelined nonpolitical experts on topics that range from counterterrorism to global climate policy at a time when the United States is dealing with a disparate set of complicated foreign policy matters, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Last week, Adam Schleifer, an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, was fired without explanation in a terse email from the White House personnel office shortly after Loomer posted about him on social media, according to a person familiar with the matter.
See this for what it is, which is a desperate move on Trump’s part to regain control of a situation that was never under control. If he’s taking advice from Loomer, he’s at the Sidney Powell, Rudy Guiliani level of desperation and at least it took him four years to get there the last time he was in office. This time it hasn’t even taken him four months.
Look for national security to be severely compromised. We have one hope, which is that the professionals who are on the inside can somehow hold it all together while SignalGate explodes and Laura Loomer plays chess with personnel. You knew it was going to be nuts, but I’ll bet you didn’t think it would be this nuts.
I still say Mike Waltz is going to be shown the door, although for the moment he’s in Florida golfing with Trump. What a job Trump has. Another four-day weekend and he’s been on the job for 73 days. Maybe we should be grateful. Maybe the less *work* he attempts, the less damage he can do.
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