After Mr. Flynn resigned under pressure, the new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, sought to push Mr. Cohen-Watnick out of the White House — but was thwarted by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Stephen K. Bannon, then Mr. Trump’s senior strategist. Mr. Cohen-Watnick next worked in the Washington office of the software giant Oracle, whose chief executive and other senior executives are supporters of Mr. Trump. In April 2018, Mr. Cohen-Watnick was named national security adviser to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sessions resigned later that year under pressure from Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen-Watnick attended law school.

Source: International New York Times November 11, 2020 23:11 UTC