Donald Trump cleanses dozens of National Security Council officials

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Donald Trump has greatly diminished the National Security Council at the White House by launching a number of officials, putting others on an administrative leave and orders many second rank to return to their home agencies.

Many people who are familiar with the shooting said NSCAnd temporarily run by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, he kept some employees, most of them senior managers, while eliminating dozens of positions in the office.

This step, which one person described as “filter”, comes three weeks after President Mike Waltz launch as the first national security adviser, the first place in NSC.

The officials who lost their positions on Friday afternoon were notified. This step followed weeks of speculation about an imminent cleansing of NSC.

The NSC Chief of Staff, Brian McCurc, sent the email to the officials shortly after 4 pm to tell them that they have 30 minutes to remove their property from their offices and leave the NSC building next to the White House.

It was not clear whether Alex Wong, Deputy National Security Adviser, was rejected. Laura Lumer, a right -wing conspiracy view that helped persuade Trump To shoot at the Pallis, Wong was shot, a senior respected official with the sincere views of China.

Three people are familiar with separation that Ivan Kanabethi, the first manager of Asia, remained, but his entire team, including his employees in China, had been abandoned. Lomer also urged Trump to launch Kanapathy, a former fighter pilot.

Robert O’Brien, who held the position of National Security Adviser in the Trump Administration, recently wrote an article on the opinion of NSC to about 60 officials. NSC, who was traditionally as a coordination office but was sometimes used for the centralization of power in the White House, had more than 200 officials during the Biden administration.

“There is no doubt that NSC in the Biden administration has become amplifier and was greatly trying to implement foreign policy instead of placing its traditional role in coordinating the implementation of the rest of the national security establishment,” said Dennis Wilder, a former NSC administration official in the George W. Bush administration.

“However, there is a risk that the severe NSC is not the” cat’s “Cittops’ executive power.

Some supporters said that this step will help Trump by reducing the number of officials from other agencies that may not support his agenda, “making America great again.”

One of the White House people close to the White House said that Trump learned a lesson from his first administration when he came to believe that many NSC officials were quietly preventing his agenda. The person said: “He did not make the same mistake again.”

But others asked about the effect of cleansing on politics, especially the ability to judge disputes throughout the government.

“Although it may seem a dilapidated bureaucratic step because NSC’s purpose is to employ the president, its importance is much more,” said one of the former NSC officials.

“By eliminating NSC employees almost anything, you can ride the United States government’s ability to generate foreign policy options, or you likely act as a brake over Trump’s preferences. All that remains is the presidential power.”

Trump also dismantled most of the NSC directorate, which supervised technology and national security policy, according to many people. The President has previously launched David Fayth, who headed the office, which was created during the Biden administration.

This directorate was effective in creating export controls designed to make it difficult for China to obtain advanced American technology that could help its army.

NSC did not comment. But Brian Hughes, NSC spokesperson, said he would remain and continue to serve the administration. ”The White House press secretary did not respond to the comment.

Axios first mentioned that Trump will restructure NSC.