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Sunday, February 18, 2018

America has one General who performs at his senior officer rank

Maybe, General McMaster, the head of the National Security Council (NSC) will save America by speaking truth to power.  Americans need to see White House leadership.

General McMaster is the head of the National Security Council. He is behaving like a senior officer by defining the Russia interference in the 2016 election.
On the other hand, former General John Kelly, the White House Chief of Staff, is behaving like he's become a victim of the Donald Trump "Stockholm Syndrome". Rather than showing leadership, Kelly appears to be following the stupid directives, indiscriminately blurted in Tweets, by the erratic, and unbalanced president. But, there might still be hope for General McMaster, to act like a leader. 

Donald Trump is clearly incapable of responding to the Russian invasion of the 2016 election. Yet, he is the person who said, "Russia if you're listening", because, in fact, he knew that they were helping his campaign. Otherwise, Donald Trump would be denouncing Russian interference in the 2016 election. Instead, he looks for embarrassing ways to discredit US intelligence. 

McMaster: Evidence is 'incontrovertible' that Russia interfered in 2016 election ~ reported in The Hill by Brandon Carter

White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster said a new round of indictments in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation show “incontrovertible” evidence that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, McMaster said “with the FBI indictment, the evidence is now incontrovertible” that Russia interfered in the election, according to The Associated Press.

The consensus of the U.S. intelligence community is that Russians did seek to influence the 2016 presidential election, although the investigation has yet to reach a conclusion on whether Russia influenced the outcome.
McMaster also reportedly dismissed a question about future U.S. cooperation with Russia on cybersecurity.
“We would love to have a cyber dialogue when Russia is sincere about curtailing its sophisticated form of espionage,” McMaster said.

McMaster spoke at the conference immediately after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who said the new Mueller indictments were “just blabber,” the AP reported, according to a translation.

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the slew of indictments at a press briefing Friday. Thirteen Russian nationals and three Russian groups were charged with multiple counts of attempting to interfere in the 2016 election.

The indictment alleges the goal of the Russians was to support then-candidate Donald Trump and hurt Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Some of the Russians allegedly posed as U.S. people and communicated with “unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities.”

Rosenstein noted that there is no allegation in the indictment that Americans had any knowledge of the operation.

Trump has (MaineWriter ~ Donald Trump has lied) repeatedly, to cast doubt on Russian interference in the 2016 election, calling it a “hoax” crafted by Democrats. 

He’s also falsely labeled Mueller’s investigation as a “witch hunt.”

In a tweet following the release of the indictments, Trump claimed the indictment showed his campaign “did nothing wrong” and that there was “no collusion” with Russia.

General McMaster reported what he knows to be true! In so doing, he is trying to demonstrate confidence and leadership while Donald Trump is wasting his time by trying to re-define the truth about Russia.  (Donald Trump continues to defend Russia, even in the face of his National Security Advisor.) 

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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Donald Trump's failed leadership will never produce results

Peggy Noonan: ‘Donald Trump is Weak and sniveling’

Peggy Noonan tore into Donald Trump in an opinion article, but she didn't resort to profanity to make her obvious points. (Anthony Scaramucci alert!)


(I'm pretty sure journalist Peggy Noonan's Opinion in The Wall Street Journal had a startling impact on Donald Trump. Something must be done to fix his out of control egotistical style, before he destroys our nation. Since Republican's are inept about addressing the leadership problem, perhaps Peggy Noonan's opinion has had an impact. (Evidently, something is going on in the White House this July weekend and it's not playing golf.)

This is a rare July weekend in Donald Trump's short tenure, because he doesn't have any golf outings scheduled. 

In fact, there are no reported appointments or activities on the White House calendar, during this weekend of July 27-10, 2017.
There have been far too many horrific communications and management gaffs to ignore, so something is going on to fix this problem.  

Indeed, something must be done to fix the White House's hierarchical communications issues.  Now that Sean Spicer and Reince Preibus have resigned, there isn't anybody to direct "who does what".  

It's like a classic and organizational "Who's on First?".

In my opinion, the internal White House dynamics are so bad that people are likely spending time hiding in the White House bathrooms, rather than face their peers. 

Indeed, the White House is in an operational crises and, thereby, must be employing experts to fix the horrible internal communications dynamics. (So, "Who is on first?")


American security depends on the White House communications operating smoothly. Obviously, I'm an outsider, but somebody who understands group dynamics. To me, the mismanagement facts are clear. Donald Trump's administrative leadership team (ie, those who appear to work in the "fly infested" West Wing) are meeting to reorganize, while the flies are buzzing over their heads (evidently, the West Wing has a "fly" problem, not associated with men's pants). 

Trump's incompetent team are meeting in a coven to fix what's wrong with themselves. They take solace in that plenty of lawyers are hanging around to help, but I'm sure there are also a gaggle of psychologists who are leading Gum-By-Ya sessions, this weekend.

Donald Trump's house of horror advisers used horrific bully tactics to kick out the people they didn't like, as in the Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Chief of Staff, Reince Priebus.  Those two gentlemen had at least some sense of propriety about them, even if they looked completely ridiculous while trying to make their boss (Donald Trump) look to be quasi presidential.  

Now, in my opinion, Donald Trump is probably being held like a political prisoner by two military advisers, being General McMaster who is leading the National Security Agency and his colleague Marine General Kelly, who was hired to replace Priebus.

I don't know about anybody else, but I wouldn't want to be living under the scrutiny of two military generals. Especially, because you can bet that those two military leaders are getting along (take that to the proverbial gossip bank). In fact, McMaster and Kelly are talking together like long lost brothers. Betcha', they have a plan for Donald Trump. Their plan is this: You will become presidential or we'll personally report you to our highest authority! 

In other words, Donald Trump will be impeached within weeks for incompetence unless he straightens out and behaves like a world leader, instead of like an immature teenager.  

By now, most US presidents would be anxious to be respected, but Donald Trump's reputation is circling the political drain because of his irresponsible "tweeting".

Good luck to General McMaster and General Kelly. Perhaps you two can do what 70 years of public scrutiny failed to do, in efforts to create a human being out of Donald Trump's out of control ego.

Nevertheless, my fear is that you two military experts and masters of leadership, will fail.  Donald Trump will fire both of you, before he complies with any leadership development plan. Meanwhile, we can only pray for the well being of our nation during this tenuous political time.

Something must be done to fix Donald Trump. (Impeachment would be my recommendation!)

Otherwise, the short Donald Trump administration will be remembered for never producing any progressive policies and only negative political results.

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