Trump’s Trolls Are Waging War on America’s Civil Servants

Career civil servants often endure stressful working conditions, but in the Trump White House, some of them face online trolling from alt-right bloggers who seek to portray them as clandestine partisans plotting to sabotage the president’s agenda. The online attacks often cite information that appears to be provided by unnamed White House officials or Trump loyalists.

Cernovich acknowledges that he’s going after McMaster’s staff. “Personnel is policy,” he wrote in response to queries for this article. “The NSC and State are the most interesting beats to cover, because the hiring and firing decisions within State and NSC will determine whether America enters another disastrous ground war, as H.R. McMaster and his mentor David Petraeus desire,” he wrote. “McMaster has stacked the NSC with pro-war globalists, some of whom came from the Obama administration and others who were ‘Never Trump’ers.’”

“alt-right” seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, without it you have a pretty Dog Bites Man story of “administration factions wield media leaks against each other”, but if I’m reading between the lines right, hey, Steve Bannon’s realized Mike Cernovich’s following can be operationalized against low-level enough officials to cut H.R. McMaster’s supporters out from under him.