The White House abruptly dismissed a senior National Security Council aide on Friday after receiving reports that he had publicly laced into the president and his senior aides, including son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump at an event hosted by a Washington think tank.
The aide, Craig Deare, was serving as the NSC’s senior director for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Earlier in the week, at a private, off-the-record roundtable hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center for a group of about two dozen scholars, Deare harshly criticized the president and his chief strategist Steve Bannon and railed against the dysfunction paralyzing the Trump White House, according to a source familiar with the situation.
He complained in particular that senior national security aides do not have access to the president — and gave a detailed and embarrassing readout of Trump’s call with Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto.
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Senior NSC aide fired on Friday after publicly lacing into Trump, Kushner, Bannon at think-tank event this wk – https://t.co/533424UvSK
— Eliana Johnson (@elianayjohnson) February 18, 2017
Worth noting, perhaps, that this was not an Obama holdover or a career person. Deare was a Trump/Flynn appointee.https://t.co/CmmCp4awsq
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 18, 2017
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