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" One of the most dramatic news stories in the coming months will probably be one or more major resignations in protest of high-level Trump administration officials over matters of policy, practice or personnel.
The Trump administration, internally, is deeply divided on some fundamental matters of policy and vision about America's role in the world. For example, there are fundamentally different worldviews between Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, on one side, and White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon and his internal allies, on the other.
The views of Mattis and McMaster versus the views of Bannon and his allies cannot be reconciled. The differences, and the dangers, will be brought into crystal-clear perspective once world events include dangerous conflicts where presidential decisions must be made and radically conflicting advice will be offered.
Is there a point where disagreements over presidential decisions on core national security decisions compel Mattis or Bannon to resign, or one of them is asked to leave by the president?
You bet there is.
Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, is the first senior administration to be so visibly under public pressure that he is the first to face what will be a dramatic choice for others in the Trump administration: stay or leave.
The truth of the matter is that President Trump has a huge, unprecedented, and alarming problem of saying things that are false too often.
When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that Trump is a "pathological liar," he is speaking with his usual directness to say something that virtually every Republican or Democrat privately believes. "
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/324499-spicer-should-resign-as-white-house-press-secretary
The Trump administration, internally, is deeply divided on some fundamental matters of policy and vision about America's role in the world. For example, there are fundamentally different worldviews between Defense Secretary James Mattis and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, on one side, and White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon and his internal allies, on the other.
The views of Mattis and McMaster versus the views of Bannon and his allies cannot be reconciled. The differences, and the dangers, will be brought into crystal-clear perspective once world events include dangerous conflicts where presidential decisions must be made and radically conflicting advice will be offered.
Is there a point where disagreements over presidential decisions on core national security decisions compel Mattis or Bannon to resign, or one of them is asked to leave by the president?
You bet there is.
Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, is the first senior administration to be so visibly under public pressure that he is the first to face what will be a dramatic choice for others in the Trump administration: stay or leave.
The truth of the matter is that President Trump has a huge, unprecedented, and alarming problem of saying things that are false too often.
When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that Trump is a "pathological liar," he is speaking with his usual directness to say something that virtually every Republican or Democrat privately believes. "
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/324499-spicer-should-resign-as-white-house-press-secretary
