McMaster : Another Trump Appointee Voices his Disgust

more and more info and MAGA still refuses to recognize the obvious...

@92gator this one's for you. I know how much you are concerned about China. what do you think about McMaster account of how Xi abused djt?

'In the Kremlin’s pocket': Ex-Trump NatSec advisor says world leaders thought he was a 'chump' (msn.com)

"Like a child with his Christmas wish list, the leader of the free world asked McMaster to send it to the Kremlin. It was especially bad timing: Evidence was coming to light that Putin had directed an assassination on British soil," the Times' Nicolas Niarchos wrote in his review of the book. "McMaster did not forward the note, later explaining to an infuriated Trump that his letter would 'reinforce the narrative that you are somehow in the Kremlin’s pocket.'"

McMaster wrote that foreign leaders treated the former president like a "chump" in their various interactions with him. During a 2017 trip across Asia, the former national security advisor recalled how he warned his boss to not let Chinese President Xi Jinping trick him into agreeing with policies that would benefit China and/or harm the U.S. or its allies. However, Trump wound up agreeing with Xi that military exercises in South Korea were a "waste of time" and that China had a case to annex Japanese territory.

"[Xi] ate our lunch," McMaster wrote in a note to then-White House chief of staff John Kelly.

Even when not dealing with international affairs, McMaster wrote that the Trump White House was a "vortex of vitriol" in which staffers were constantly trying to one-up each other with gratuitous displays of sycophancy combined with "accusations of disloyalty" against each other. He also regarded former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon (currently an inmate in federal prison) as similar to both the "Iago" character in Shakespeare's play "Othello," who plays on the leader's insecurities, and the "weird sisters" in the play "Macbeth," who rile up the king with prophesies.

 

MAGA absolutely refuses to believe this too

Donald Trump Holds Responsibility for Afghanistan Withdraw, Ex-Adviser Says (msn.com)

Retired Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, a former national security adviser to ex-President Donald Trump, says Trump bears at least some of the blame for the botched U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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While the withdrawal was executed under Biden, it was the Trump administration that brokered a deal with the Taliban to leave the country in 2020. After the bulk of American forces left under Biden, the U.S.-backed Afghan government and military quickly fell at the hands of a Taliban attack. McMaster, who was Trump's top national security adviser from February 2017 to April 2018, told CNN's Anderson Cooper during an interview on Monday night that his former boss was partly responsible for the debacle because he had decided to negotiate with the Taliban on terms of a withdrawal.

"Oh, yes," McMaster said after being asked by Cooper if Trump bears "part of the responsibility for what happened." McMaster then added, "The whole premise of talking to the Taliban before you leave Afghanistan...why the heck were we even doing that?"

"The Obama administration didn't negotiate with al-Qaeda and Iraq on the way out," he continued. "If we were gonna leave, why not just leave? What happened in these series of negotiations is we kind of threw the Afghans under the bus on the way out... then forced them to release 5,000 of some of the most heinous people on the earth." In response to a request for clarification from Cooper, McMaster confirmed that he was referring to the Trump administration forcing the then-U.S.-backed Afghan government to release 5,000 Taliban fighters as part of the withdrawal negotiations.

 

Confirming what anyone with eyes and ears can see - not anywhere close to a foreign policy genius and the easiest negotiations our adversaries have ever had.