{"id":6343,"date":"2017-07-28T16:46:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2017-07-28T16:47:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:47:54","slug":"national-security-adviser-h-r-mcmaster-pushes-out-middle-east-adviser-derek-harvey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/28\/national-security-adviser-h-r-mcmaster-pushes-out-middle-east-adviser-derek-harvey\/","title":{"rendered":"National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster Pushes Out Middle East Adviser Derek Harvey"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline clearfix\">\n<div class=\"byline-byline\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/author\/james-miller\/\">Jim E<\/a> | <span class=\"byline-date\">July 28, 2017 11:17AM <\/span>This has been a wild and crazy week for the Trump Administration.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First, there are rumors that Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/trey-gowdy-jeff-sessions\/?source=TPIpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">may resign<\/a>. Then, Trump hired <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/anthony-scaramucci-new-white-house-communications-director\/?source=TPIpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthony Scaramucci<\/a> as the White House Communications Director, which led to Press Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/sean-spicer-resign\/?source=TPIpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sean Spicer\u2019s resignation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And now, the Trump Administration just experienced another resignation, this time by\u00a0Derek Harvey, the president\u2019s Middle East adviser. Harvey was reportedly pushed out by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, as he was an ally of former adviser Michael Flynn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/27\/derek-harvey-trump-middle-east-adviser-dismissed-241037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMcMaster wants his own guy,\u201d said a senior White House aide. The White House did not immediately announce a replacement for the job of National Security Council senior director for the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The move comes as McMaster, a three-star Army general, seeks his footing in a White House where rivals have undermined him with disparaging leaks\u2014and where President Donald Trump himself has occasionally clashed with his top foreign policy adviser.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This new shake-up will have a huge effect on our country\u2019s Middle East policy moving forward. It\u2019s especially important given that President Trump is currently considering whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Let\u2019s hope that whoever replaces Harvey will abide by President Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica-first\u201d policy position, and not take our foreign policy back to the failed national building philosophy that has been a huge disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim E | July 28, 2017 11:17AM This has been a wild and crazy week for the Trump Administration. First, there are rumors that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may resign. Then, Trump hired Anthony Scaramucci as the White House Communications Director, which led to Press Secretary Sean Spicer\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}