Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier
Source: Axios
The bare-knuckle campaign to remove National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster from the White House is about to get much uglier.
Outside forces opposed to McMaster are going to allege he has a drinking problem, according to sources outside the Trump administration familiar with the anti-McMaster campaign. The controversial nationalist Mike Cernovich, who has an inside track on the anti-McMaster campaign, teased the alcohol attack in an Internet video with Alex Jones of the website Infowars. Anti-McMaster forces believe this attack will harm his standing with the president, who is a teetotaler.
To be clear: I have never heard anything to support the allegation from anyone inside the Trump administration or from anyone who's socialized with McMaster. We are covering it to highlight the extremes to which McMaster's opponents are prepared to take their war against the National Security Adviser.
A White House official told me "McMaster has been made aware that the attack is likely coming, and prefers to focus on his work."
Read more: https://www.axios.com/anti-mcmaster-campaign-is-about-to-get-uglier-2472606148.html
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)when Bannon himself is rumored to be a heavy drinker. And he definitely looks a lot more like a drinker than McMaster.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)pissed because he was iced off of NSA
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Takes one to know one.
riversedge
(70,438 posts)the WC Fields nose.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)msongs
(67,483 posts)Lindsay
(3,276 posts)I think Axios as a source needs to be taken with a big helping of salt. Among their funders are Koch Industries and Walmart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axios_(website)
riversedge
(70,438 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)I'm starting to think McMaster and Mattis are our best chance to get us out of this mess
brooklynite
(94,929 posts)...who's a teatotaler, not because he's an alcoholic, but because he sees it as as weakness.
Mr.Bill
(24,358 posts)would be a requirement to work in the White House today. They sure act like it.
Doug the Dem
(1,297 posts)Than this??
HAB911
(8,934 posts)McMaster v. Miller/Bannon/Gorka
the winner will define our future