McMaster had not been in the job long before the Bannon wing orchestrated attacks to undermine him with Trump. The campaign, using the full ecosystem of the alt-right media led by Bannon’s old team at Breitbart News, portrayed McMaster and others on his staff, such as the Russia expert Fiona Hill, as shadowy “globalists” with a subversive anti-Trump agenda, often invoking the anti-Semitic trope that they were pawns of the wealthy Jewish financier and philanthropist George Soros.
