Posted on 04/15/2020 6:18:26 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Ever since a “senior official in the Trump administration” penned an anonymous 2018 New York Times column attacking President Trump as unfit for office, Washington has been engrossed in a high-stakes whodunit. After an exhaustive investigation, the White House believes it’s cracked the case, identifying Trump's turncoat as his former deputy national security adviser, Victoria Coates, according to people familiar with the internal probe.
Rather than fire Coates, the White House has quietly transferred her to the Department of Energy, where she awaits special assignment in Saudi Arabia -- far from the president.
Trump effectively demoted Coates just four months after promoting her last fall to the No. 2 spot on his National Security Council. The move was made amid a whisper campaign, started in January, that identified Coates as “Anonymous,” the person who wrote the Times Op-Ed and a subsequent book, “A Warning,” claiming to be part of a cabal of “fellow Republicans" resisting Trump and his policies from inside the administration.
The Washington press corps has for the most part been uninterested in learning the author’s identity. But the sources said the identification of Coates was based on circumstantial evidence generated from a months-long White House investigation led by sleuths within the NSC. Top White House adviser Peter Navarro, who works with the NSC on trade and other issues, also was heavily involved in the probe of Coates.
She declined to discuss the matter on the record with RealClearInvestigations and has retained an attorney, friends say, although several colleagues have rushed to her defense, insisting the White House has the wrong person. But a source involved in the NSC probe who asked not to be identified said there was little doubt. “It’s her,” the source said of Coates. “That’s why she was shown the door.”
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearinvestigations.com ...
Nah, the Brits are our friends. Send her to North Sentinal Island in the IO where the natives kill anyone that tries to come ashore. You know, the one where the do-gooder was murdered a year or so ago...
Peter is a perfect fit for the Trump administration.
Thank you.
Why not fire her . What us the reassignment bs?
Best be buying a Burqa, toots.
So, if they know SHE didn't do it, they probably have an idea of who did.
Very interesting that she was a top Cruz aide before being tapped for the job she used to backstab the President.
wiki:
In the 2000s, she blogged mainly about foreign policy under the pen name “AcademicElephant” at the Conservative blog RedState.[4] Her blog posts were read by aides of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who later recruited Coates to work as an advisor for his book, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, published in 2011.[4]
Coates served as an advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry during his 2012 presidential bid before she became an advisor to Ted Cruz in 2013 and his leading national security advisor during his 2016 presidential campaign.[4]
https://militarist-monitor.org/profile/victoria-coates/
Coates, who has a PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, has been a contributor to the conservative blog, RedState, as well as the William Kristol-edited Weekly Standard.[5]
Husband:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-coates-jr-1934a727
How did she get into NSC in the first place?
Hot d@mn! I didn’t know the link between them.
Peter Navarro
I am a fan of his, too
For a woman Saudi Arabia is far, far worse.
In fact it’s cruel, unlike Trump. Perhaps it’s to get her to resign.
C’mon, man, what about Fauci? /s
yes to both your points
Isn’t it though?
My original choice was Cruz. But I am so glad Trump got elected. How egotistical can someone actually working for him be not to realize how right he has been? He was right on China. He’s right about the swamp and the press. He is doing great things for ordinary people, unlike the previous Republicans. He is doing a wonderful job in the current crisis.
I have run into this problem with academics. They think that because they have some competence in one thing, usually something not practical, that they are superior to everyone. They are like the boss who, since the job is done by a specialist in his department, feels that he knows as much about it as the specialist. This is how managers over promise because they know the work can be done, but not what it takes to get it done. Academics are lucky they don’t have to survive in the wild without a place to use their credit cards.
Fire her.
Nominated by this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_C._O%27Brien_(attorney)
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/11/national-security-council-staff-changes-044622
Trump’s new national security adviser shakes up staff
10/11/2019
Robert O’Brien, the new White House national security adviser, is moving around staffers as he plans to trim the National Security Council in the wake of John Bolton’s departure.
The latest changes include two promotions and one departure, a senior Trump administration official confirmed on Friday. Kevin Harrington, who had been senior director for strategic planning, will now serve as strategic counselor to O’Brien. Also moving up is Victoria Coates, a former adviser to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz who has been serving as the NSC’s senior director for the Middle East.
You misunderestimate President Trump.
My suspicion is he is one of the smartest presidents ever to occupy the White House.
Far above Kennedy. Most Presidents are smart, but most since 1900 were corrupted by lust for power and Progressive philosophy.
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