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| US President Donald Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon was dropped from the National Security Council on April 5, 2017 (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm) |
Washington
(AFP) - Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's chief strategist, has lost his
seat on the powerful National Security Council in a high-level shakeup, a US
official confirmed Wednesday.
Trump's
elevation of Bannon to a permanent spot on the NSC had been widely criticized
as injecting politics into White House deliberations on sensitive defense,
foreign policy and intelligence matters.
A former
head of the far-right website Breitbart and now chief White House strategist,
Bannon is regarded as a controversial proponent of the nationalistic
anti-globalism that helped propel Trump to the White House.
In a
presidential memo dated April 4, Bannon no longer appears on the list of
regular attendees of NSC meetings.
Confirming
that he has been removed as a permanent NSC member, a White House official said
the move resulted from a reorganization by Trump's new national security
advisor, Lieutenant General HR McMaster.
McMaster
took over February 20 after his predecessor Michael Flynn was fired amid a
scandal over his secret conversations with Russia's ambassador to Washington,
Sergey Kislyak.
The
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said McMaster has his own ideas
about how to do things and Trump had promised he could name his own people to
the NSC.
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