President Donald Trump has removed all the White House National Security Council (NSC) detailees and ordered a full review of new incoming staff.
Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has fired 160 NSC staffers and is conducting a full review of new staff in a bid to retain those aligned with Trump’s agenda.
“National Security Advisor Mike Waltz promised and authorized a full review of NSC personnel,” NSC spokesman Brian Hughes said a statement to the Associated Press.
“It is entirely appropriate for Mr. Waltz to ensure NSC personnel are committed to implementing President Trump’s America First agenda to protect our national security and wisely use the tax dollars of America’s working men and women. Since 12:01 pm on Monday personnel reviews and decisions based on the evaluations are being made.”
The sidelined NSC detailees are career civil servants from various law enforcement, military, and intelligence agencies and departments across the federal government such as the CIA, FBI and the Pentagon.
Waltz earlier this month said the Trump team has identified the individuals they want out of the national security agencies and they would be quickly dealt with as soon was Trump was sworn in.
“Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20,” Waltz said. “We’re working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we’re putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they’re all going to go back.”
The Trump administration is looking into the social media activity, political contributions and voting patterns of prospective NSC staff to ensure they are aligned with Trump’s national security priorities.
From the AP:
Incoming senior Trump administration officials this month also had questioned some career civil servants about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by Trump’s team, a person familiar with the matter told the AP. That person spoke on the condition of the anonymity to discuss the sensitive personnel matter.
Waltz in a recent interview with Breitbart News said that he wanted the NSC to be staffed by personnel who are “100 percent aligned with the president’s agenda.”
Trump’s careful review of NSC officials is warranted given that in 2019 anti-Trump military officer Alexander Vindman, who was sitting on the NSC at the time, leaked a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussing the Russia collusion hoax, which led to the first Democrat-led impeachment witch hunt against the 45th president.
This also comes after Trump on Tuesday pulled the security clearances of the 51 former intelligence officials who penned a letter in the days leading up to the 2020 presidential election falsely claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story was “Russian disinformation.”
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