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BREAKING NEWS: Likely Trump Appointments


trump-enterprises-logo-icoSen. Jeff Sessions, AG

The Alabama senator was one of the first and only senators to come out forcefully in support of Trump’s candidacy during the GOP primary. Sessions’ influence over the transition process is evident; in addition to his own visits to Trump Tower, Sessions allowed his chief of staff, Rick Dearborn, to become executive director of the transition team and, during the primary, allowed his communications director, Stephen Miller, to decamp for a senior position on the Trump campaign. Sessions’ name has been floated for a number of prominent posts, including secretary of defense and attorney general.

Gen. Michael Flynn

A retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, Flynn served as a national security advisor for Trump during the campaign. Flynn is a rumored contender for the position of White House national security adviser, which does not require a Senate confirmation.  Flynn has appeared on Putin’s RT television network and is seen as a supporter of Putin.  Retired General Michael Flynn is Donald Trump’s chief national security advisor.  Since retiring from his role in the Obama Administration as who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency,  Flynn has headed a consulting firm with one client: Turkey, ruled by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Flynn is simultaneously sitting in on Trump’s President Daily Brief while advising and advocating for Erdogan.

Steve Bannon

To say that Steve Bannon despises the  intelligentsia of the right and the left  is an understatment.  Under Bannon,  Breitbart published the conservative writer David Horowitz reference to conservative pundit Brill Kristol as a “renegade Jew” or such tabloid owrthy fodder as “Trannies 49Xs Higher HIV Rate” and “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy”).  He has even dissed FOX NEWS> “(Fox News) got it more wrong than anybody. Rupert is a globalist and never understood Trump. To him, Trump is a radical. Now they’ll go centrist and build the network around Megyn Kelly.

Mike Huckabee

Britain’s Daily Mail on Friday quoted an unnamed source in the Trump transition team confirming both the appointment and that the embassy move would be a first item of business for ambassador Huckabee. “That’s going to happen,” the transition source said. “Governor Huckabee is going to see it through.”  Huckabee. a former Presidential candidate and Fox New host,  is  a christian evangelist who sees Israel as ordained as a Jewish state by  Jesus.

Anthony Scaramucci

The Wall Street financier sat on Trump’s finance committee during the campaign and was named a member of the transition team’s executive board last week. Scaramucci was also a member of the campaign’s team of economic advisors, which Clinton derided as just “six guys named Steve.”  In a campaign  notably lacking in more recognized economists. Scaramucci is seen by Mr. T has an economist.  Possibly chief economics advisor.

Rudy Giuliani

Giuliani is one of Trump’s highest-profile supporters. The former New York City mayor has been an enthusiastic proponent of Trump’s policies since the primary race, sticking by the president-elect through some of the campaign’s rockiest moments. Giuliani’s name was first floated in connection with the attorney general position; he has since emerged as a rumored contender for secretary of state.

Peter Thiel

Thiel, an outspoken venture capitalist, broke with the ranks of Silicon Valley to support Trump during the presidential race. He spoke from the stage at the Republican National Committee and is likey to serve as a guru for management of the internet under the regime.

Corey Lewandowski

Lewandowski was the first of Trump’s three campaign managers and was widely seen as thug. He has remained a loyal Trump supporter ever since his departure in June, when he joined CNN as a political commentator. Late last week, he resigned from the network within hours of surfacing at Trump Tower. Rumors are that Priebus does not want Lewandowski there but Trump does. Any job for the man would suggest that Trump intends ot foment violence.

Sen. Ted Cruz

The Texas Tea Partier did not announce his support of the president-elect until late September, and said he only did so due to the significance of the Supreme Court vacancy Trump would fill if elected. Cruz’s unadvertised visit to Trump Tower preceded rumors that he is under consideration to be the next attorney general.

Betsy DeVos  

DeVos is a billionaire power broker with deep political ties at the state and national level to the GOP.  As chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, DeVos was a driving force behind a failed 2000 ballot proposal that would have amended the Michigan Constitution to create a voucher system allowing taxpayer funds to follow students to nonpublic schools. She is a candidate for secretary of education.

DeVos, 58, is a staunch supporter of charter schools and vouchers, which supporters argue give parents and students more freedom to seek a higher-quality education but critics view as an effort to privatize education at the expense of public schools.

The president-elect has said he wants to “immediately” invest $20 billion in school choice. States would have the option to let the funds follow a student to a private school, and grant distribution would favor states with “private school choice, magnet schools and charter laws,” according to an outline on his campaign website.

 


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