Then Trump gave him this job.
Aide Ousted From White House Reappears Again in Administration Job
Ezra Cohen-Watnick’s latest position in the Trump administration is as
deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats.
WASHINGTON —
Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the hawkish adviser who has popped up in various Trump administration departments over the past three years, is back in a government building, this time at the Pentagon.
Mr. Cohen-Watnick’s latest position in the Trump administration is deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats, Pentagon officials said on Monday. The job, which does not require Senate confirmation, will be Mr. Cohen-Watnick’s third stint in the administration.
His first was at the White House in 2017 and began during the short-lived tenure of President Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn. Mr. Cohen-Watnick did not get along with Mr. Flynn’s successor, H.R. McMaster,
and was pushed out.
On Thursday, the Justice Department
moved to drop criminal charges against Mr. Flynn for lying to F.B.I. agents about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to Washington.