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    Trump National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster To Resign, Be Replaced By John Bolton

    According to inside accounts, the president and McMaster clashed when the top aide's cerebral briefings crashed into Trump's more freewheeling style.
    by Philip Ewing Mar 22, 2018 3 minutes
    Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster will resign his post as national security adviser, the White House said on Thursday. He will also be retiring from the Army effective this summer.

    Updated at 8:20 p.m. ET

    National security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is leaving the Trump administration, the president announced on Twitter Thursday evening. "I am very thankful for the service of General H.R. McMaster who has done an outstanding job & will always remain my friend," the president wrote. Trump also said former Ambassador John Bolton will replace McMaster in a change that takes effect April 9.

    The planned change at the top of the country's national security infrastructure comes after McMaster had like a deflating balloon.

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