McMASTER OUT: President Trump’s purge of naysayers from his Cabinet continues, as he once again parted ways with a voice of dissent over Twitter. Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, who privately, and sometimes publicly, clashed with his boss, was a dead man walking after the White House leaked last week that Trump had decided to replace him, and then issued a lukewarm “non-denial denial.”

McMaster drew the ire of Trump last month at the annual Munich Security Conference when he said evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 election was “incontrovertible.” Trump immediately upbraided him in a tweet. “General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians.” McMaster was brought in last year to replace retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, who was caught lying about phone calls with the Russians, and is now cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.