Cohen-Watnick has been accused of leaking information that Rep. Devin Nunes used to claim that Trump campaign officials were improperly surveilled.
Per sources, McMaster said that Trump is an “idiot,” a “dope” and has the intelligence of a “kindergartner.”
Cohen-Watnick, a favorite of Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon, is the latest casualty of new White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly’s new order.
At 31, Ezra Cohen-Watnick is one of the most powerful people in the National Security Council.
— Ezra Cohen-Watnick has been in the spotlight recently following reports that he was the aide behind a White House leak to help back up President Donald Trump’s claim that Barack Obama had wiretapped him. The New York Times reported last month that the Jewish senior director for intelligence on the National Security Council was one of two White…
A pair of American genealogists believe they’ve found information linking the wife of White House staffer Ezra Cohen-Watnick with pro-Russian advocacy in the U.S.
Who is Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the 30-year-old White House aide who could be a key player in the blockbuster investigation into Russian ties to President Trump and his campaign?
— President Donald Trump reportedly overruled a decision by National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster in order to keep a Jewish National Security Council aide in his current position. McMaster had told Ezra Cohen-Watnick, senior director for intelligence programs at the NSC, that he would be moved to a different position at the NSC after CIA…