Nobody heading up a Romney team should be in the Trump WH—let alone in the key NSA position. His first act as NSA was to bring “anonymous” in as his deputy.
I figured it would take the entirety of Trump’s first term to clean things up, and his second term would be much better.
Lol...O’Brien advised Romney in 2011 when he was the GOP standard bearer against Obama, and more recently advised Walker and then Cruz in their Presidential campaigns. None of this disqualifies him from working for Trump.
As for Coates, it wasn’t O’Brien who brought her in to the NSC or make her the head of the Middle East and North Africa policy desk. For all we know, he and Trump promoted her to draw out more hidden traitors within the National Security apparatus.
Either way, Coates was dealt with and O’Brien is busy removing a large swathe of the deep state leakers at NSC. There is absolutely no reason to remove him at this time.