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He's a stooge.

If Tillerson hasn't resigned by the end of this week, I'll regard him as an industry stooge.

A growing cadre of former military officers who served with Trump National Security adviser H.R. McMaster are quietly calling for him to retire from service, worried the embattled Trump administration is tarnishing the U.S. military’s reputation by deploying their own personal three-star general as a political shield.

In recent weeks, McMaster has acted almost as a White House spokesperson, thrust into the spotlight to promise that Trump didn’t reveal anything inappropriate when he shared another spy agency’s intelligence with two Russian officials in the Oval Office. McMaster was also the face—or the voice—of the administration on Trump’s first foreign trip, giving off-camera interviews to explain what the president hoped to accomplish from Saudi Arabia to NATO.

Trump himself gave no interviews, as news broke back in the states that his son-in-law and key organizer of the trip, Jared Kushner, had reportedly sought to establish back-channel communications with Russia, using Russian communications equipment. McMaster claimed he was “not concerned” by “back-channel communications,” though fellow military professionals say what Kushner proposed went far beyond the discreet diplomacy.

“It makes me uncomfortable that a serving military officer is in that role,” said a retired senior military officer who calls McMaster a friend. “The credibility he has is precisely why they are using him as a spokesman. I think that’s unfortunate.”

“H.R. is being used here,” added a former military adviser who worked with McMaster overseas. “If he didn’t have three stars on his shoulder, he’d be useless to them. It’s the worst of all outcomes for him. He’s got this miserable interagency process and then gets trotted out to defend the most inane and corrupting things,” said the adviser who spoke anonymously, like others in this story, to avoid reprisals from the Trump administration.

Current and former army military officers have expressed to The Daily Beast unease with how the Trump White House has sent McMaster repeatedly into the political breach to defend the commander in chief’s actions to the American public.

That’s fueling calls for the maverick Army officer to retire from military service if he wants to stay in the White House, lest his increasingly political role damage the U.S. military’s reputation as being above party and politics.

“He has to retire,” said an officer who served with McMaster overseas. “Being the national security adviser that this president requires—given the random things Trump’s going to say that he has to defend—he can’t do that in uniform.

yeh but hes almost been a "loyal opposition" to some of Trumps wackier uninformed proposals (like this one)

If Tillerson hasn't resigned by the end of this week, I'll regard him as an industry stooge.

Walter Hinteler wrote:

The Climate-Alliance Germany ("Klima-Allianz Deutschland") is a network of 110 civil society organizations, including environment groups, development groups, trade unions, and consumer associations.
Founded in 2007 by for instance the Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
On the annual Global Climate Day of Action, the Alliance organises nationwide demonstrations, they organise and co-ordinate demonstrations against coal-fired power stations ...

What replaced the Nuclear Power stations that Chancellor Merkel shut down in her successful effort to destroy the Green party? Coal produced power was a major part of it.

Trumps method to unerpin the coal industry is , in my thinking, the main rason for bagging out of Paris.
Hes wrong about the basis of the accords and hes wrong on the effect. Coal is shrinking because of MARKET forces, not anything like "overreaching regulations".

The solar renewable industry is now booming and I see that weve given that industry completely away .

Hes subsidizing buggy whips.

He always seems to do things counter to our interests

The only thing he did was to not allow foreign powers to dictate how the US will spend it's money and how the US will produce energy.

A "treaty" called Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women can't possibly be serious.

A "treaty" called Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women can't possibly be serious.