The national security adviser seemed at a loss.It fell to Michael Waltz to explain to handpicked members of his staff this month why the president had ordered their dismissal after a meeting with Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who rose to prominence by making incendiary anti-Muslim claims and who last year shared a video that labeled 9/11 an “inside job.”“He was upset and couldn’t explain it,” a person familiar with Waltz’s reaction told me.But the abrupt dismissals shouldn’t have come as a surprise at the National Security Council, a highly sensitive part of the U.S. government that provides a forum for the president to consider the most pressing national-security and foreign-policy issues with senior advisers and the Cabinet.The NSC was the first part of the federal workforce to be purged of expertise when Donald Trump returned to power in January. Two days into Trump’s second term, before agents of Elon… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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