Rice, Obama’s former ambassador to the United Nations and National Security adviser, has not held back her criticism of Trump, especially after he made a decision to elevate Bannon.
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“Presidents from Truman to Obama have utilized the guidance of the NSC to make tough foreign policy decisions and keep our nation safe from harm”, Warner said in a statement.
House Minority Whip Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., called Bannon’s inclusion an “outrageous, incompetent move” that sends the message that “ideology and partisan politics will be injected into the process of decision-making over questions of national security”. He shaped executive actions pulling the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and freezing the USA refugees programme. Rice, who served as Obama’s National Security Adviser, tweeted, with DPRK referring to North Korea.
Now, Director of National Intelligence and the chair of Joint Chiefs of Staff will only attend the meetings when “issues pertaining to their responsibilities and expertise are to be discussed”, the order states.
Further, others who don’t approve of any of Trump’s policies have been referring to Bannon’s Breitbart past.
Bannon until recently was the head of Breitbart News, a web site that traffics in white nationalism.
His rhetorical influence on the president was particularly clear last week.
As chief strategist, he was credited with reinvigorating Trump’s flailing presidential campaign and crafting its unorthodox and ultimately successful game plan. Trump repeated the phrase the next day. Bannon was CEO of the Trump campaign.
For one, Bush had no “chief strategist” position in his White House, and his top political aide, Karl Rove, was never on the NSC.
Senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) interpreted the order to mean that lawful permanent residents – green card holders – who hailed from the seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in the immigration order would not face additional screening when they entered the country.
All this has some questioning Bannon’s power in the White House – hence the trending hashtag.
President Obama’s former national security adviser Susan Rice responded to the National Security Council changes this morning, calling it “stone cold insane”. Bannon aided Trump in laying the political and ideological foundations before Trump’s win. “Trump generally agrees with him”.
He has little experience in foreign policy.
A White House official declined to comment.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, offered praise for the administration’s national security team, but he expressed serious concerns about Bannon. Even so, Fleischer supports Trump’s promotion of Bannon. One wonders if Bannon has become the Trumpian equivalent of Rasputin who was the influential advisor to Czar Nicholas, the last Russian czar who was deposed and killed by the Communists at the time of the Revolution.
