Multiple sources alleged in a Buzzfeed report that National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster openly mocked President Donald Trump at a dinner with Oracle CEO Safra Catz, calling him an “idiot” and a “dope” and suggesting that he had the intelligence of a “kindergartner.”
Additionally, a sixth source stated that this was not a one time thing, alleging that McMaster often derides Trump’s intelligence level in private, suggesting that he does not have the mental acumen to understand matters pertaining to National Security Council.
“[Catz] said the conversation was so inappropriate that it was jaw dropping,” an unnamed source has stated.
While we wait for Trump’s forthcoming tweetstorm and/or McMaster’s humiliating mea culpa, some folks on Twitter have called into the question the credibility of the report’s sourcing, noting a strange discrepancy with the story.
McMaster booted NSC official Ezra Cohen-Watnick in August as part of his purge of the NSC in which he fired many Bannon loyalists. Guess where Cohen-Watnick works now? Oracle, the same software company
The suggestion here is that the story may have been made up by sources holding a gripe against McMaster, a notion far-right Twitter nut Jack Posobiec did not help quell by alluding to the news a full day before it broke.
So, yeah, people are mighty suspicious, with many pointing out that all six sources remain anonymous.
This isn’t the first time a member of the president’s staff has allegedly insulted his intelligence. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called him a “fucking moron” during a meeting with staffers back in July.
UPDATE 3:17 p.m. EST: Buzzfeed reporter Joe Bernstein responded to the Twitter-verse’s suspicions on Monday, stating in a tweet that he has “been covering the alt-right for years,” and that he “approached this story, which was very much not ‘shopped’ to me, with an ABUNDANCE of skepticism”:
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