Article snippet: Posted at 10:00 pm on May 10, 2017 by streiff There has been some commentary about Donald Trump falling out of love with National Security Adviser, LTG H. R. McMaster. This is the “Q Source” for the whole thing: There are a lot of moving parts here. This report is by Eli Lake who is as solid a reporter as you will find on national security. The nexus of the issue is that the Bannon-ites are trying to force McMaster out. Their go-to guy is Mike Cernovich who has become a one-man McMaster hating machine. As Kate Brannen writes in a Foreign Policy article in which she calls this “Game of Thrones for Morons” she lays out McMaster’s problem: One of the sticking points, according to Lake, has been McMaster’s inability to backfill the deputy NSA position left vacant by the departure of K. T. McFarland (as an aside, what the f***ing f*** was Flynn thinking when he made her deputy NSA?) Now that particular battle has been resolved. Overall, for an outsider, McMaster has won a significant number of battles including dropkicking Steve Bannon from the NSC principals committee. But each victory probably costs him a little bit. At some point, he could be portrayed as the outsider diva who is a never ending source of drama in the White House. On the other hand, each of these wins enables him to build an NSC that is loyal to him. In the long run, I’d expect that even the Flynn acolytes will come around. The real danger facing McMaster is Trump’s infatuation with being aroun... Link to the full article to read more