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brooklynite

(94,929 posts)
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:20 PM Aug 2017

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

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Anti-McMaster campaign is about to get uglier (Original Post) brooklynite Aug 2017 OP
Odd that they would focus on an alcoholism charge marylandblue Aug 2017 #1
Bannon is probably leadingthe charge Angry Dragon Aug 2017 #5
Probably Bannon's liver is leading the charge ToxMarz Aug 2017 #9
It is the red alcohalic nose that is a dead give-away for Bannon. Can't see his live but can see riversedge Aug 2017 #10
Steve Bannon's inflamed liver ToxMarz Aug 2017 #13
analysis and opinion not lbn nt msongs Aug 2017 #2
Just as a caution, Lindsay Aug 2017 #3
+1 dalton99a Aug 2017 #4
I am leary of some of their articles also. riversedge Aug 2017 #11
Anyone with half a brain won't fall for the stories blueinredohio Aug 2017 #6
This may be targeted solely at Trump... brooklynite Aug 2017 #7
I would think being drunk Mr.Bill Aug 2017 #8
Uglier? Doug the Dem Aug 2017 #12
Coming down to HAB911 Aug 2017 #14

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
1. Odd that they would focus on an alcoholism charge
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:25 PM
Aug 2017

when Bannon himself is rumored to be a heavy drinker. And he definitely looks a lot more like a drinker than McMaster.

riversedge

(70,438 posts)
10. It is the red alcohalic nose that is a dead give-away for Bannon. Can't see his live but can see
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:46 PM
Aug 2017

the WC Fields nose.

Lindsay

(3,276 posts)
3. Just as a caution,
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:27 PM
Aug 2017

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)

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)
6. Anyone with half a brain won't fall for the stories
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:04 PM
Aug 2017

I'm starting to think McMaster and Mattis are our best chance to get us out of this mess

brooklynite

(94,929 posts)
7. This may be targeted solely at Trump...
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:06 PM
Aug 2017

...who's a teatotaler, not because he's an alcoholic, but because he sees it as as weakness.

Mr.Bill

(24,358 posts)
8. I would think being drunk
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 08:08 PM
Aug 2017

would be a requirement to work in the White House today. They sure act like it.

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