Brian Hook, a candidate to be national security adviser, co-founded a group that was a hotbed of anti-Trump sentiment in 2016
The #NeverTrump ties of one leading candidate to succeed John Bolton are coming under increasing scrutiny as President Donald Trump considers whom to tap as his fourth national security adviser.
poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201909/2439/1155968404_6085050598001_6085050972001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404"Even those who didn’t sign the letters, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his predecessor, Rex Tillerson, as well as two of the president’s former national security advisers, John Bolton and H.R. McMaster, have often vehemently disagreed with Trump on the issues.
Trump allies are already using their influence to warn him against tapping Hook, who is now serving as the U.S. special envoy for Iran under Pompeo. The day of Bolton’s dismissal, Tucker Carlson singled out Hook on his Fox News program, deriding him as an “unapologetic neocon” who has “undisguised contempt for Donald Trump.”
Since firing Lt. Gen. Michel Flynn, his first national security adviser, just weeks into the administration, the president has struggled to find foreign policy advisers who share his views. Flynn’s successor, McMaster, was a career military man who largely kept his political views under wraps, but clashed with the president in both substance and style.
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