The world will come to an end on 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day. Well, not the entire world, but the Deep State world will. Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House wi/ll be expected to move from the Bdn regime to the unemployment line.
Waltz said:
“Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20. We’re working through our process to get everybody their clearances and through the transition process now. Our folks know who we want out in the agencies, we’re putting those requests in, and in terms of the detailees they’re all going to go back.”
The way the NSC works is the National Security Advisor oversees a team of political appointees from the president who oversee a wide range of what are called “detailees”—people who work at the various agencies and departments across the federal government who are assigned, or detailed, to work at the White House for a period of time on the NSC in a portfolio in which they demonstrate expertise. These career intelligence officials come from places as wide-ranging as the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, the Pentagon, and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and report up to the political appointees atop each major portfolio in the NSC. The NSC has various issue-specific portfolios like counterterrorism and cyber policy as well as regional portfolios focused on things like the western hemisphere or the Middle East or Europe or Asia. The detailees then help coordinate back to the various agencies and departments so the whole federal government executes on the decisions that the president makes.
One of the main problems President Trump faced during his first term in office was Alexander Vindman. Vindman was the key witness for the Democrats in their attempt to impeach President Trump, but while he agreed that the transcript of the call to Zelensky was accurate, he added his opinion, devoid of the facts.
Waltz said:
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“The issue with Vindman wasn’t during transition—the issue with Vindman was he was already slated to transfer but didn’t come in until the summer or fall after. So that’s one, number two—the folks that we’re bringing in are 100 percent aligned with the president’s agenda. Hell, the entire world seems to be aligned with his agenda if you just look at the outreach from world leaders and everybody who wants to come to Mar-a-Lago. So, there’s a little bit of a difference in that everybody was reflexively just against him [the first time] just for the sake of it and the Trump Derangement Syndrome was out of control in 2017. Now, after seeing and feeling four years of progressive governance under Biden and seeing the world come unglued, we’re not even seeing the levels of resistance to his agenda—that’s just a broader point. But also the folks we’re bringing in, the key members of my team, have relationships out in these agencies and we know who is completely on board.”
Waltz’s interview with Breitbart News came after a previous Trump NSC political appointee named Josh Steinman had sent out a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, warning that he was concerned about some of the staffing moves at the NSC. Waltz told Breitbart News in this interview that Steinman’s claims were wrong and could have been addressed quickly in a phone call rather than creating a public hullaballoo. Steinman does seem to have backed off of them since then, even reposting an X post from Waltz explaining that all of the Biden-era detailees will be removed on day one.
“It’s a pretty straightforward process,” Waltz told Breitbart News. “Because a good portion of the NSC are detailees, out from the agencies, our team knows who we want to bring in and we’re putting those requests out and we’re going to bring them in.”
“We essentially tee up options for the president, really elevate to him decisions through a process,” Waltz said when asked to explain what the NSC does. “Some of those decisions will be made by his Cabinet that are fully in line with his agenda but some need to come to him—not the NSC staff but the actual statutory National Security Council. We’ll convene those. He’ll make his decisions. Then, where I think there was some difficulty in the first administration is we’re then charged with actually monitoring and helping the agencies and making sure the agencies actually execute his decision. That’s where they need to set their personal decision aside and whether they agree with it or not he’s the elected President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief. That is everything from nuclear policy, cyber policy, pandemics—you’ve got the avian flu kind of bouncing around a little bit—and then the regional strategies that align with his agenda. The border, deportation, Remain-in-Mexico, really reintroducing American leadership into the Western Hemisphere again as you’ve heard from him on Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal. [Also, the focus will be on] bringing the war in Ukraine to an end and negotiating that, getting our people out of Gaza but then what does post-Gaza look like so another Oct. 7 doesn’t happen again? Then, there’s the next step of the Abraham Accords which I hope will be Saudi Arabia relatively soon. So, he’s ready to do a lot, he’s ready to take big swings and not accept the status quo but it takes a team he’s fully comfortable with and that is fully comfortable with him to execute and to pull all of that together. You take something like Cyber—we have to pull together DHS, FBI, DOD, NSA, the rest of the IC, and a whole slew of industry partners to have an effective Cyber policy. That’s going to take a team to do that.”
