{"id":24418,"date":"2019-03-22T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24418"},"modified":"2019-03-22T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T23:14:49","slug":"the-next-top-official-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/22\/the-next-top-official-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Top Official To Step Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My guess? National Security Advisor John Bolton, the guy with the &#8216;stache. Yesterday, he gave a detailed briefing on the sanctions being imposed on North Korea, according to Josh Lederman of <em><strong>NBC News<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Less than 24 hours ago, top National Security Council officials sat down reporters in the EEOB to walk through these <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NorthKorea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NorthKorea<\/a> sanctions and how important they are<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshNBCNews\/status\/1109150876617375745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today? In a gobsmacking move, President Trump tramples all over him:<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">President Trump undercut his own Treasury Department on Friday by announcing that he was rolling back\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-north-korea-china-sanctions.html?module=inline\">North Korea sanctions that it imposed just a day ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">The move, announced on Twitter, was a remarkable display of dissension within the Trump administration and represented a striking case of a White House intervening to reverse a major national security decision made only hours earlier by the president\u2019s own officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cIt was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,\u201d Mr. Trump said on Twitter. \u201cI have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump appeared to confuse the day that the sanctions were announced, saying the move occurred on Friday rather than on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the decision was a favor to Mr. Kim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cPresident Trump likes Chairman Kim, and he doesn\u2019t think these sanctions will be necessary,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary and one of Mr. Trump\u2019s most loyal aides, personally signed off on the sanctions and hailed the decision in a statement accompanying them on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ygdjhk evys1bk0\">\u201cThe United States and our like-minded partners remain committed to achieving the final, fully verified denuclearization of North Korea and believe that the full implementation of North Korea-related U.N. Security Council resolutions is crucial to a successful outcome,\u201d Mr. Mnuchin said in the statement.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/22\/world\/asia\/north-korea-sanctions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Secretary Mnuchin might beat Bolton out the door, but I think Bolton has more self-respect and, well, pride than Mnuchin.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;ll be fascinating to eventually learn how Kim bought his way out of the sanctions. Some official promise? Or was it of a more personal nature? Chance to sleep with a North Korea woman, trademark rights, <em>cash on the barrel head<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/383px-Flag_of_North_Korea.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24419 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/383px-Flag_of_North_Korea.jpg?resize=383%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/383px-Flag_of_North_Korea.jpg?w=383&amp;ssl=1 383w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/383px-Flag_of_North_Korea.jpg?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/383px-Flag_of_North_Korea.jpg?resize=250%2C125&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/383px-Flag_of_North_Korea.jpg?resize=150%2C75&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/><\/a>Perhaps it&#8217;s time to send a small, decorative North Korean flag to all Republican Party members. Maybe a light-hearted note declaring the Republican Party is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Workers'_Party_of_Korea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Workers&#8217; Party of Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guess? National Security Advisor John Bolton, the guy with the &#8216;stache. Yesterday, he gave a detailed briefing on the sanctions being imposed on North Korea, according to Josh Lederman of NBC News: Less than 24 hours ago, top National Security Council officials sat down reporters in the EEOB to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/22\/the-next-top-official-to-step-down\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24420,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24418\/revisions\/24420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}