The Tiny White House Club Making Major National-Security Decisions
Trump has pushed out career experts and aides who challenged him.
By Missy Ryan, Jonathan Lemire, Nancy A. Youssef, and Michael Scherer, The Atlantic
During Donald Trump’s first term, his top advisers attempted to run a traditional process for shaping foreign policy, tapping experts from the White House’s National Security Council, debating recommendations from across the government, and steering the president away from decisions that they feared would damage America’s interests. But Trump was deeply mistrustful of the NSC, which he saw as too big, too cumbersome, and too attached to Republican orthodoxy.
