Margaret Hoover: There’s a ‘Personnel War’ in NSC Between the ‘Pro-Trump Reaganites’ and the ‘Neo-Isolationists’

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HOOVER: “Yeah. Look, in this — in the first Trump Administration, it took until the very end, after he had lost the election, for the conspiracy theorist to be able to walk right in the Oval Office and start telling him what to do and giving him really good/terrible ideas. Now it’s just happening less than 100 days in. I think the fact that a 9/11 conspiracy theorist is making policy recommendations about staff actually is a great distractor from the fact that there’s a real policy war about personnel happening for the NSC between the pro-Trump Reaganites and the restrainers and the neo-isolationists. And there are these two factions in the White House on the national security side, and they’re fighting it out. And, frankly, they’re getting a lot of these sort of pro-Trump, Reaganite folks, the Mike Waltzes, the Alex Wongs are getting blocked by the PPO and the restrainer crowd.”