ABC News: President Donald Trump announced today that Army Lt. Gen. Herbert Raymond McMaster is his new national security adviser.
This comes after Trump’s first appointee to the post, Michael Flynn, resigned after misleading the vice president about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.
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Trump made the announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and said Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who has been acting national security adviser since Flynn left, will remain as the chief of staff for the National Security Council.
“That combination is something very, very special,” Trump said of McMaster and Kellogg.
Trump said he has “tremendous respect for the people I met with” for the role, including former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton, who Trump said will work with his administration in a “somewhat different capacity.”
Retired admiral and Navy SEAL Robert Harward, an ABC News contributor, was offered the job after Flynn’s departure but turned down the position for personal reasons, according to a senior administration source.
