\n\nCareer 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\u2019s agenda. The online attacks often cite information that appears to be provided by unnamed White House officials or Trump loyalists.
\n\n\u201calt-right\u201d seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, without it you have a pretty Dog Bites Man story of \u201cadministration factions wield media leaks against each other\u201d, but if I\u2019m reading between the lines right, hey, Steve Bannon\u2019s realized Mike Cernovich\u2019s following can be operationalized against low-level enough officials to cut H.R. McMaster\u2019s supporters out from under him."}Cernovich acknowledges that he\u2019s going after McMaster\u2019s staff. \u201cPersonnel is policy,\u201d he wrote in response to queries for this article.\n\n\u201cThe 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,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMcMaster has stacked the NSC with pro-war globalists, some of whom came from the Obama administration and others who were \u2018Never Trump\u2019ers.\u2019\u201d