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Updated | Is H.R. McMaster, the White House national security adviser, on the way out? By some signs, he is: President Donald Trump not only excluded him from a key meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his national security adviser Monday night in Jerusalem, he was kept outside the King David [Hotel] room during the course of the entire meeting, according to an eye-catching Israeli account.

Taken alone, the perceived shaming wouldnt amount to much: Trump has a habit of slighting his aides in public. But the incident came only days after a report in The New York Times that McMaster had fallen out of favor with the president. Trump had complained that General McMaster talks too much in meetings, and the president has referred to him as a pain, The Times said in a report that was not challenged by the White House. By the time Trump left Israel for his meeting in Rome with the Pope, right-wing news sites closely allied with the so-called nationalist wing of the White House were serving up full throated criticism of McMaster, a distinguishedArmy general.

Gen. McMaster Squanders Tremendous Capital Trump Earns in Saudi Arabia, screamed a headline at Frontpage, a web site that has championed the presidents travel ban and other anti-Muslim themes. McMaster acknowledged that the President had used the term Islamic terrorism in his speech in Riyadh, the news site complained, then immediately tried to back away from it. The general had returned to the Obama-era white-washing of Islam [and] bending over backwards out of fear of offending Muslim leaders whose support we need to fight ISIS, it claimed.

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Breitbart News Network, formerly edited by Trumps chief strategist Steve Bannon, went further, inviting anti-Muslim gadfly Frank Gaffney onto its Sirius XM radio show to blast McMaster as one of the leading voices in the Trump administration seeking to divorce Islam from terrorism.

Likewise, Mike Cernovich, a blogger with a large far-right following, has been running a campaign against the general, accusing him of manipulating intelligence reports and plotting how to sell a massive ground war in Syria to President Trump with the help of disgraced former CIA director and convicted criminal David Petraeus, who mishandled classified information by sharing documents with his mistress.

Even before McMaster left on Trumps foreign trip, writers from the Washington establishment were urging him to resign before he lost the last shreds of his dignity under the erratic president. Twenty years ago, H.R. McMaster authored a cautionary tale, Washington Post columnist Carlos Lozada wrote, referencing the generals acclaimed book on how U.S. military leaders enabled bad decision-making by President Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War. Now he risks becoming one.

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U.S. National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 16, 2017. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty

Another writer at the liberal-leaning Foreign Policy web site quoted from McMasters book, Dereliction of Duty, to suggest he risked grave injury to his reputation if he stuck around much longer. Richard Miles, who served on President George W. Bushs White House National Security Council, noted that McMaster opened one of the chapters in his book with a quote from Admiral David McDonald, chief of naval operations from 1963 to 1967: Maybe we military men were all weak. Maybe we should have stood up and pounded the table....I was part of it and Im sort of ashamed of myself too. At times I wonder, why did I go along with this kind of stuff?

Ironically, themultiple new bombshells on the Trump-Russia front breaking Fridaynightmay strengthen McMasters hand, should he decide to stick around. With new revelations that Trumps son-in-law and senior aide Jared Kushner sought to establish a back channel with the Kremlin through its embassy in Washington, allegedly bypassing U.S. intelligence communications systems to discuss a quid-pro-quo to benefit Trumps friends when the president lifted American sanctions on Russia, McMaster suddenly looks like a towering figure of virtue in a widening pool of sleaze.

If so, it would be quite a reversal of fortune for the much maligned retired general. Many of McMasters friends and admirers were dismayed when Trump sent him out to explain away reports of his boss sharing above-top secret intelligence about an allied source of informationsaid to be Israelon the Islamic State militant group with Russias foreign minister and ambassador to Washington. Some saw it as a deliberate act of humiliation. John Nagl, who had worked with McMaster on U.S. counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, told NPR he was in an absolutely impossible situation. And many of us, his friends, were concerned that something like this was going to happen when he took this job working for this administration.

The president Nagl said, expects him to defend the indefensible.

While McMaster sat outside the Jerusalem meeting with Netanyahu and his aides, the president included two officials with zero diplomatic experience in the Middle East, his son-in-law and senior aide Jared Kushner and a longtime Trump Organization employee, Jason Greenblatt. A year ago, Greenblatt was the chief attorney overseeing large transactions for the Trump Organization, including any involving Trump family members, Politico reported. Now hes in the White House as the presidents lead envoy in the Middle East David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer and the presidents newly appointed ambassador to Israel (who has long helped fund illegal Israeli settlements), rounded out the Trump entourage at the Netanyahu meeting.

Critics pounced.

There has been a lot in the press about Trumps growing antipathy to McMaster, though its hard to know how much of it is true and how much of it is the result of intramural smear jobs from the warring White House factions, says Daniel Benjamin, who was ambassador-at-large and coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department in the Barack Obama administration. Whatever the story may be there, if Trump doesnt take his national security advisor into a meeting with another head of government, hes again being reckless and foolish beyond belief, added Benjamin, now director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College.

Its not goodand rarefor a national security adviser to be left out of a meeting like this, Loch Johnson, the eminent intelligence historian at the University of Georgia, tells Newsweek. The position depends on good chemistry between the president and the national security adviser and this event would suggest that the key elements of this relationship are already evaporating in the Petri dish.

The absence of McMaster was not so important as long as the ambassador is there, says Evelyn Farkas, a deputy assistant secretary of defense in the Obama administration. But she wondered whether an experienced diplomatic note-taker was there, because...the rest of the interagency [national security team] needs to be told what happened. Not just that, says Benjamin. The national security advisor, or some other senior professional staffer, as opposed to an amateur like Kushner, is there to keep the president from straying into areas that he doesnt know and preventing commitments that he doesnt understand. According to the Israeli insider blog Kafe Knesset, at some point, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was invited to join the expanded meeting. But even then, McMaster was left out.

All this is just the latest example of a dysfunctional White House with a broken staff system, says Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency. An empowered White House chief would... make sure McMaster is in the room for important meetings with heads of state. But Reince Priebus is not and has never been empowered. And Trump has no idea why that is essential to his success.

Of course, if this is a sign that McMaster is out of favor, well, God help us, says Daniel Benjamin, who in the 1990s served on President Bill Clintons national security council.McMaster doesnt have a lot of expertise in Europe, Asia, diplomacy or economics, but he seems to have his head screwed on right, which cant be said of many of the other members of the White House inner circle.

This article has been updated with the news reports lateFridaythatJared Kushner sought to establisha back channel with the Kremlin.

Jeff Stein can be reached somewhat confidentially via spytalk@hushmail.com and on Signal.

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President Donald Trumps proposed 2018 federal budget is monstrous and barbaric. It was not released to the public. It escaped.

Despite the administrations denials and evasions, Trumps proposed budget is a wish list of wanton cruelty hiding behind a mask of compassionate conservatism. That cruelty is directed toward anyone who is not rich, white and male.

When viewed on the broadest level, this budget is an act of political sociopathy that is bereft of any human decency or empathy.

Its specific horrors include the fact that Trump and the Republican Party want to steal food from the hungry, deny shelter to the elderly and poor, deprive the sick and needy of medicine and other health care and take schooling away from children and young people in order to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the rich and the powerful.

Ultimately, a countrys budget is a type of moral accounting. A budget is also a statement of political values and philosophy. If evaluated on those terms, what is the political ideology and worldview being offered by Donald Trump and the Republican Party?

Government is a tool for confronting problems that individual people cannot effectively resolve on their own. Trump and the Republican Party believe that government should be extremely limited with the exception of the military and police and financial protections for the rich and corporations. Trumps proposed budget channels Steve Bannons wicked dreamof destroying the state: I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of todays establishment.

Political systems reflect basic assumptions about human nature. Donald Trump and the Republican Party believe that human beings should have no social obligations to one another beyond their own small tribe and kin group. As conservatives, they also believe in a type of crude social Darwinism where the strong flourish while the weak are left to suffer and eventually perish. Trumps 2018 federal budget uses government (or the lack thereof) to accelerate this outcome by further tearing apart the social safety net and redistributing resources upward to the very rich.

Politics has been described as a question of who gets what, when and how.Trump and the Republicans want to transfer resources and money away from the poor, the elderly, children, the sick, nonwhites, immigrants and women to give hundreds of billions, if not trillions, to the very richest Americans and corporations. The very richest 0.1 percent of Americans roughly 350,000 people already own 90 percent of the individual wealth in the United States. And corporations in the United States are now considered personsunder the law, making money a type of protected speech. Corporations use this power to wield almost unchecked power over almost every aspect of society. Many of Americas largest corporations do not pay any taxes and are subsidized by public tax dollars in their too bigto fail gangster capitalism. Trumps proposed budget reinforces and strengthens this dynamic.

Politics can also be understood as the study of the affluent and the influential. Donald Trumps proposed 2018 budget (and the Republican Partys policies in general) reward the rich and the powerful and punish the poor and the working classes. This budget assumes that the masses of people who are hurt and disempowered by it will not resist. It is a plutocratic and anti-democratic document.

A healthy democracy nurtures and protects the commons, meaning public lands, roads, resources and spaces, as well as goods and services that should be wholly and equally owned and enjoyed by all members of society. Donald Trump and the Republican Party consider thevery concept ofpublic goods and the commons to be enemies of their extreme right-wing agenda. All aspects of American social and political life are to be privatized and dictated by the predatory and destructive rules of the market. To that end, Trumps budget will sell off public lands and resources to the highest corporate bidder, privatize air traffic safety and other infrastructure, and end environmental rules and regulations. Donald Trump even proposes allowing thousands of wild horses to be killed in order to save the federal government $10 million a year.

Trumps 2018 budget reflects his plutocratic, authoritarian and fascist values. It surrenders even more power to corporations; gives more money to an already bloated military-industrial complex; curtails public education and the arts; expands policing, mass incarceration and the surveillance state; and (in theory) funds the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trumps budget also awards public money to himself, his family, his businesses and his political allies through changes in the tax code such as ending the estate tax and repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Conservatives are obsessed withnegative liberty. They view government as the enemy and reject most arguments that individual freedom and the good life can be encouraged and protected by the state. Liberals and progressives offer a different vision. They believe in positive liberty and in the idea that under democracy the government must protect and nurture human freedom and dignity. In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a Second Bill of Rights that would have included:

Donald Trump and the Republican Party view such a humane society as anathema to their political goals.

What of practical politics? Donald Trumps proposed 2018 budget has been pronounced as dead on arrival by many voices in Congress and the corporate news media. This conclusion is premature. Republicans in Congress can feign disapproval at this cruel and monstrous budget while cherry-picking the parts they like best. In essence, the Republican Party will separate the bad from the truly horrific and then champion themselves as being reasonable for doing so. As they often are, Democrats will likely be outflanked by this dishonest and cunning (albeit obvious) maneuver.

What about Donald Trumps voters? The white working-class voters in Rust Belt America who gave Trump the White House (along with assistance from Vladimir Putin and Russias spies) will be severely hurt by his 2018 federal budget. The butchers bill has come due again with a usurious amount of interest. Trumps voters will be made to suffer. This is their reward for supportinghim.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump readhis voters fables that convinced them he could make America great again. They were hoodwinked. In reality, Trump was reading from a cookbook and his working-class supporters blinded by racism, sexism and nativism did not realize that they would be served up as one of the main courses.

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Ben Jacobs claims Montana GOP candidate Greg Gianforte "body slammed" him after he asked about the latest CBO score. A Buzzfeed reporter confirmed the account saying she heard a loud crash and saw his feet fly in the air. USA TODAY

Will Montana voters put a guy into Congress who just yesterday allegedly assaulted a reporter? We'll know after tonight.

News broke that U.S House candidate Greg Gianforte allegedly "body-slammed" a reporter on the eve of Thursday's vote, withwitnesses later describingthe Republican as having grabbed the journalist by the neck before hurling him to the ground. A misdemeanor assault charge and an attack ad stemmed from the incident, along with a condemnationfrom House Speaker Paul Ryan.

Many thought a loss for Giafortemight signal shifting winds for a Trump-led GOPin a traditionally red state. Then a body slam happened, andnow folk-singing Democrat Rob Quist might pull of a major upset. Maybe.

Also on Thursday: Trump pushed a prime minister, which, all things considered, seems quaint.

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Trump's travel band will stay stymied.A federal appeals court in Virginia on Thursday ruledto uphold a prior decision barring the president's controversial ban, which targets six majority-Muslim countries. Now a Supreme Court battle over the ban seems all the more likely. A blunt statement fromChief Judge Roger Gregory of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said that despite revisions removing any mention of religion, the ban still failed to hide "President Trumps desire to exclude Muslims from the United States."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the case would be appealed to the Supreme Court.

It was the shove seen 'round the world: President Trump seemingly grabbed the right arm of the prime ministerof Montenegro and pushed him back into a crowd of NATO leaders before standing tall and adjusting his jacket. Video of the incident aided Trump's second viral moment this week on Thursday, after his wife Melania was caught apparentlyswatting his hand away in Israel. At the NATO meeting, Trump pressured leaders of the military alliance to throw intheir "fair share"for the group's costs. Trump also declined to endorse the NATO treaty's Article 5,which states an attack on one member country is consideredan attack on all. A White House spokesman later said his support for it was implicit.

A no-go for Joe. One-time senator Joe Liebermanpulled his name off the listof finalists under considerationto lead the FBI on Thursday, citing a possible "conflict of interest." It turns out that Lieberman is a senior counsel at the same law firm where Trump's personal lawyer,Marc Kasowitz, is a senior partner. Kasowitz currently represents Trump on various ongoing investigations tied to Trump, Lieberman noted. That makes the idea of Lieberman replacing James Comey, the former FBI director who oversaw a Russia inquiry tied to Trump, a bit messy.

Lieberman, who served four terms in the Senate, said he was "grateful" for Trump's consideration.

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This weeks bombing in Manchester, England, was another gruesome reminder that the threat from radical Islamist terrorism is ongoing. And President Trumps journey to the Middle East illustrated yet again how the country central to the spread of this terrorism, Saudi Arabia, has managed to evade and deflect any responsibility for it. In fact, Trump has given Saudi Arabia a free pass and a free hand in the region.

The facts are well-known. For five decades, Saudi Arabia has spread its narrow, puritanical and intolerant version of Islam originally practiced almost nowhere else across the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden was Saudi, as were 15 of the 199/11 terrorists.

And we know, via a leaked email from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, in recent years the Saudi government, along with Qatar, has been providing clandestine financial and logistic support to [the Islamic State] and other radical Sunni groups in the region. Saudi nationals make up the second-largest group of foreign fighters in the Islamic State and, by some accounts, the largest in the terrorist groups Iraqi operations. The kingdom is in a tacit alliance with al-Qaeda in Yemen.

The Islamic State draws its beliefs from Saudi Arabias Wahhabi version of Islam. As the former imam of the kingdoms Grand Mosque said last year, the Islamic State exploited our own principles, that can be found in our books. ... We follow the same thought but apply it in a refined way. Until the Islamic State could write its own textbooks for its schools, it adopted the Saudi curriculum as its own.

Saudi money is now transforming European Islam. Leaked German intelligence reports show that charities closely connected with government offices of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait are funding mosques, schools and imams to disseminate a fundamentalist, intolerant version of Islam throughout Germany.

In Kosovo, the New York Times Carlotta Gall describes the process by which a 500-year-old tradition of moderate Islam is being destroyed. From their bases, the Saudi-trained imams propagated Wahhabisms tenets: the supremacy of Shariah law as well as ideas of violent jihad and takfirism, which authorizes the killing of Muslims considered heretics for not following its interpretation of Islam. ... Charitable assistance often had conditions attached. Families were given monthly stipends on the condition that they attended sermons in the mosque and that women and girls wore the veil.

Saudi Arabias government has begun to slow many of its most egregious practices. It is now being run, de facto, by a young, intelligent reformer, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who appears to be refreshingly pragmatic, in the style of Dubais visionary leader, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. But so far the Saudi reforms have mostly translated into better economic policy for the kingdom, not a break with its powerful religious establishment.

Trumps speech on Islam was nuanced and showed empathy for the Muslim victims of jihadist terrorism (who make up as much as 95 percent of the total, by one estimate). He seemed to zero in on the problem when he said, No discussion of stamping out this threat would be complete without mentioning the government that gives terrorists ... safe harbor, financial backing and the social standing needed for recruitment.

But Trump was talking not of his host, Saudi Arabia, but rather of Iran. Now, to be clear, Iran is a destabilizing force in the Middle East and supports some very bad actors. But it is wildly inaccurate to describe it as the source of jihadist terror. According to an analysis of the Global Terrorism Database by Leif Wenar of Kings College London, more than 94 percent of deaths caused by Islamic terrorism since 2001 were perpetrated by the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other Sunni jihadists. Iran is fighting those groups, not fueling them. Almost every terrorist attack in the West has had some connection to Saudi Arabia. Virtually none has been linked to Iran.

Trump has adopted the Saudi line on terrorism, which deflects any blame from the kingdom and redirects it toward Iran. The Saudis showered Trumps inexperienced negotiators with attention, arms deals and donations to a World Bank fund that Ivanka Trump is championing. (Candidate Trump wrote in a Facebook post in 2016, Saudi Arabia and many of the countries that gave vast amounts of money to the Clinton Foundation want women as slaves and to kill gays. Hillary must return all money from such countries!) In short, the Saudis played Trump. (Jamie Tarabay makes the same point.)

The United States has now signed up for Saudi Arabias foreign policy a relentless series of battles against Shiites and their allies throughout the Middle East. That will enmesh Washington in a never-ending sectarian struggle, fuel regional instability and complicate its ties with countries such as Iraq that want good relations with both sides. But most important, it will do nothing to address the direct and ongoing threat to Americans jihadist terrorism. I thought that Trumps foreign policy was going to put America first, not Saudi Arabia.

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President Donald Trump's approval rating fell sharply this week as some of the folks who voted for him in droves have begun to back away from the leaderwho has beenplagued by controversy during his brief but rocky tenure in the White House, according to a new poll this week.The survey from Fox Newsfound just 40 percent of voters approved of Trump's job performance, a 5 percentage point slide from where it stood in the same poll last month. Disapproval also rose 5 percentage points to 53 percent.

"Some of the drop in approval comes from Republicans," noted Fox Newsin its write-up of the survey. In their poll, Trump's support among GOP votershad hovered between 84 percent and 87 percent during his tenure in the White House, but in the new survey that fell to 81 percent. Fifty-threepercent of white voters without a college degree approved of the job Trump has done, a decrease of 9percentage points in just one month.

White voters overall were split on Trump, with 48 percent approving of his job performance and 48 percent disapproving, according to the Fox News poll. In the election, 66 percent of whites without college degreeand 57 percent of whites overallvoted for Trump, according to CNN's exit polls.

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A few potential issues white working class voters might have with the Trump presidency: 44 percent don't support the Republican health care bill backed by the former reality TV star and 50 percent thought he wouldn't actually get a wall built along the southern border of the U.S., one of his key promises during the campaign.

According to the Fox News poll, voters overall were skeptical of Trump's firing of former FBI Director James Comey. By a margin of 60 percent to 29 percent, voters believed the president got rid of Comey for self-serving reasonsnamely the FBI's investigation into his administration's potential ties with Russiaversus firing him for harming the bureau.

The Fox News poll interviewed 1,011 registered voters through telephone calls from May 21 through May 23. It had a margin of error of 3 percentage points for the full sample.

The latest poll isn't the first to find white working class voters and Republicans have begun to jump off the Trump train just four months into its plannedfour-year trip. A Reuters/Ipsos poll last week found disapproval of Trump among Republicans jumped 7 percentage points to 23 percent. A Quinnipiac University survey this month found support among whites without a college degree had dropped 10 percentage points in just one month to 47 percent.

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