Trump decides to remove McMaster as National Security Advisor: Report
As per the latest US media reports, President Donald Trump has decided to fire his National Security Advisor Lt. Gen HR McMaster and is scouting to find a replacement before the planned high-profile North Korea meetings.
As per reports by Washington Post, Trump is now comfortable with ousting McMaster with whom he never personally gelled. At the same time the report said, 'but is willing to take time executing the move because he wants to ensure both that the three-star Army General is not humiliated and that there is a strong successor lined up.'
On the other hand, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders dismissed the reports and said that there were no changes.
McMaster is Trump's second national security adviser after Michael Flynn was dismissed last year for misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the US.
The NSC is one of the most powerful wing of the White House that drives the administration's national security agenda. The daily reported that Trump has complained that McMaster is too rigid and that his briefings go on too long and seem irrelevant.
Reports of McMaster's removal from the NSC have been gaining ground especially after Trump rebuked him last month on his statement that Moscow's interference in the 2016 election was "incontrovertible", following more than a dozen indictments from special counsel Robert Mueller's office.
Trump had lashed out at McMaster in a late-night Twitter post last month.
Trump has privately expressed irritation with McMaster stemming from differences in "personality and style," it quoted a senior Republican source as saying.
On Tuesday, Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and told reporters at the White House he was near having his ideal team.
At the same time, other candidates have emerged as possible McMaster replacements, including John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, and Keith Kellogg, the chief of staff of the National Security Council, the Post said. -PTC News
