America Firsters aim to scrub Brian Hook off national security adviser list
by Steven Nelson
September 17, 2019 02:06 PM President Trump’s “America First†allies are waging a campaign to force Brian Hook out of consideration to replace John Bolton as national security adviser.
Hook, more than any other contender, alarms supporters of Trump’s establishment-rejecting nationalist foreign policy who are agitating against Hook inside the White House and highlighting Hook's history of association with Trump's enemies.
As candidate Trump denounced foreign military interventions, the now-U.S. special representative for Iran Hook seemed to flirt with Never-Trumpism, saying in 2016, “Even if you say you support him as the nominee, you go down the list of his positions and you see you disagree on every one.â€
Hook, who founded the John Hay Initiative in 2013 with fellow Mitt Romney advisers, joined the Trump administration under then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. He formed part of "the threesome" of senior aides to Tillerson, a man Trump grew to loathe, fired, and called “dumb as a rock."
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