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Trump Presidential Transition Thread
Topic Started: Nov 9 2016, 10:16 PM (714 Views)
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Now that the election is over and we have a President-elect, it is time to follow the transition from Obama to Trump.....

.....God save the Republic. :devil1:
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Politico: Meet Trump's Cabinet-in-Waiting

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President-elect Donald Trump does not have the traditional cadre of Washington insiders and donors to build out his Cabinet, but his transition team has spent the past several months quietly building a short list of industry titans and conservative activists who could comprise one of the more eclectic and controversial presidential Cabinets in modern history.

Trumpworld has started with a mandate to hire from the private sector whenever possible. That’s why the Trump campaign is seriously considering Forrest Lucas, the 74-year-old co-founder of oil products company Lucas Oil, as a top contender for Interior secretary, or donor and Goldman Sachs veteran Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary.

He’s also expected to reward the band of surrogates who stood by him during the bruising presidential campaign, including Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie, all of whom are being considered for top posts. A handful of Republican politicians may also make the cut, including Sen. Bob Corker for secretary of state or Sen. Jeff Sessions for secretary of defense.

Trump's divisive campaign may make it difficult for him to attract top talent, especially since so many politicians and wonks openly derided the president-elect over the past year. And Trump campaign officials have worried privately that they will have difficulty finding high-profile women to serve in his cabinet, according to a person familiar with the campaign’s internal discussions, given Trump’s past comments about women.

Still, two Trump transition officials said they received an influx of phone calls and emails in recent weeks, as the polls tightened and a Trump White House seemed more within reach.

So far, the Trump campaign and transition teams have been tight-lipped about their picks. (The Trump campaign has declined to confirm cabinet speculation.) But here’s the buzz from POLITICO’s conversations with policy experts, lobbyists, academics, congressional staffers and people close to Trump.
-Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/who-is-in-president-trump-cabinet-231071
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*continues previous post* ....and those being considered?

Secretary of State
-Fmr. Spkr. Newt Gingrich (GA)
-Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)
-Fmr. U.S. Amb. to the U.N. John Bolton

Treasury Secretary
-Goldman Sachs Executive Steven Mnuchin

Secretary of Defense
-Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
-Fmr. Nat.Sec.Adv. Stephen Hadley
-Fmr. Sen. Jim Talent (R-MO)
-Retired NSA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn
-Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)

Attorney General
-Fmr. New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani
-Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
-Fla. AG Pam Bondi

Secretary of the Interior
-Lucas Oil co-founder Forrest Lucas
-Venture capitalist Robert Grady
-Fmr. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
-Fmr. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer
-OK Gov. Mary Fallin
-Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
-Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm

Secretary of Agriculture
-TX Ag. Sec. Sid Miller
-KS Gov. Sam Brownback
-Fmr. NE Gov. Dave Heineman
-Fmr. GA Gov. Sonny Perdue
-Fmr. TX Gov. Rick Perry
-Agribusiness leader Charles Herbert
-Dairy executive Mike McClosky

Commerce Secretary
-Investor Wilbur Ross
-Fmr. Nucor CEO Dan DiMicco
-Fmr. TX Gov. Rick Perry
-Fmr. AR Gov. Mike Huckabee

Labor Secretary
-Fmr. EEOC Commissioner Victoria Lipnic

HHS Secretary
-FL Gov. Rick Scott
-Fmr. Spkr. Newt Gingrich
-Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson

Energy Secretary
-Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm
-Venture capitalist Robert Grady

Education Secretary
-Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson
-Hoover Institute researcher William Evers

Veterans Secretary
-House Veterans Cmte. Chair Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL)

Homeland Security Secretary
-Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke
-NJ Gov. Chris Christie

EPA Administrator
-Competitive Enterprise Institute official Myron Ebell
-Venture capitalist Robert Grady
-NJ Dept. of Env. Protection Director Joe Aiello
-IN Dept. of Env. Mgt. Chair Carol Comer
-AR Atty. Gen. Leslie Routledge
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--Giuliani tells @mattapuzzo he doesn't want to return to government, but he and Mukasey are making a list of AG picks for Trump. (Adam Goldman, New York Times - 10 Nov. 2016)
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White House staff members listen to US President Barack Obama speak about Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton for the presidency in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 09 November 2016.
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(The Guardian) FAA puts Trump Tower in no-fly zone

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--The Federal Aviation Authority has listed Trump Tower in Midtown, home of Donald Trump, wife Melania and son Barron, in the no-fly zone.

The FAA had placed “temporary flight restrictions for VIP Movement” on the area for election night but has now extended it indefinitely after Trump’s win.

The area of Trump Tower is now, as New York magazine pointed out, a national-security site: The agency issued an administrative directive called a “Notice to Airmen” banning pilots from flying within two nautical miles of the geographical point located at 40º45’54” north, 73º58’25” west — that being the southeastern corner of Central Park, four blocks north of Trump Tower.
-Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/faa-issues-flight-restrictions-near-trump-tower.html
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(The Guardian) Trump ditched his press pool this morning, in continuance of his late-campaign practice. Spokeswoman Hope Hicks told Trump’s pool that the White House would provide pool coverage of today’s meeting.

The White House press pool of course is at the White House, not with Trump. So that doesn’t make any sense.

The protective press pool attached to the president, when it works, increases the access of the public to the presidency and the White House. The press pool describes the daily movements of the president and remarks variations in those, introduces the public to the people and conversations in the president’s orbit, and provides coverage in case of unforeseen events extending to an emergency.

Insofar as the media is a tool for the public to pry open and look inside the government – and we are keenly aware that a lot of people these days think “insofar” is “not very far” – the press pool is a tool for the larger media to keep an eye on the president.

Trump’s ditching it, for now.
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(The Guardian) As Trump meets Obama, Michelle Obama is to take Melania Trump on a tour of the White House and the east wing where the family lives.

This afternoon, vice president Joe Biden is to meet with vice-president-elect Mike Pence, a longtime legislator relatively well-known in Washington.
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(The Guardian) Press on the move inside White House
--The press pool has just been informed that in 10 minutes they will be going back to prepare for a “spray”.

What will happen is they will stand in a West Wing corridor, for what I guess will be 15-20 minutes, while they wait for the private Obama-Trump meeting to finish.

Then they will be ushered inside the Oval Office to take pictures of Trump and Obama and record what we expect to be brief remarks from each.

It is possible, though unlikely, that Trump may come out to another “stake-out” location outside the front of the West Wing afterwards to make separate remarks to the wider press corps.

More likely he will depart, as he arrived, out of public sight.
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White House staffers and others on the steps of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, as they wait for the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump.

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People gather outside the West Wing of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, as they wait for the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump.
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(The Guardian) From the media pool assigned to Trump which Trump has ditched, a sighting of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough.

White House chief of staff Denis McDonough was just spotted leading Jared Kushner and other Trump aides, including Dan Scavino, across the back edge of the Rose Garden. McDonough led Kushner on a walk down the South Lawn as the others dispersed.

Reminds us of the time in 2006 that Kushner and Peter Kaplan went to that Yankees game. Seemed high-stakes at the time; Kushner had just purchased the New York Observer, where Kaplan was editor, which nobody wanted to see fail. Kaplan died of cancer in 2013. Kushner’s now getting the keys to the White House.
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(The Guardian) Trump to meet with Ryan, McConnell
--Following his meeting with Obama today, president-elect Trump will meet with House speaker Paul Ryan at the Capitol Hill Club and majority leader Mitch McConnell at Capitol Hill.

Trump has been hard on Ryan, attacking him repeatedly during the campaign as a weak leader. Ryan canceled a plan campaign appearance with Trump after the emergence of hot-mic video in which Trump described grabbing women’s genitals without their consent.

Members of Trump’s staff including campaign chairman Stephen Bannon have called for Ryan’s head and it’s possible the president-elect will seek to torpedo Ryan’s reelection as House speaker.

But on Wednesday, Ryan put a good face on the relationship, saying he had spoken with Trump twice and was eager to work with him and calling Trump’s election good for the country. McConnell voiced a similar view.

Three Republican men in control of the legislative and executive branches.
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(The Guardian) Trump’s traveling press pool continues to track Kushner and McDonough.

Kushner, the scion of a New Jersey real estate empire that dwarfs Trump’s, was a key adviser to his father-in-law throughout the campaign. It’s unclear what role he would have in the White House.

The pool report: McDonough and Kushner walked back from the lawn and across the Rose Garden at 12:07. McDonough led him up the colonnade, followed by the same group of aides who’d left them on their own for the walk. They entered the White House, looked up briefly when a reporter called out “Denis!” but did not respond.

Trump and Obama are still meeting. What are they talking about? Obamacare?
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(The Guardian) The media pool is going into the Oval Office now. That suggests a 90-minute meeting.

POTUS and PEOTUS were seated in the high-backed armchairs at the end of the room, as is typical for when the President speaks to world leaders.

Both men spoke briefly. Remarks to come...
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(The Guardian) Obama describes 'excellent conversation' with Trump
--Obama and Trump talked about foreign and domestic policy according to initial pool chatter in the press room.

More to come....

In short remarks, the president said the two had an “excellent conversation.”

Trump boasts of length of meeting with Obama
--Obama said the number one priority was to ensure a smooth transition, so Trump could be a successful president.

“If he succeeds, the country succeeds,” Obama said.

Trump said he had “respect for the president” and said they talked about some wonderful things and some difficult things.

Asked if he would seek the advice of the president, Trump said Obama was a “very fine man.”

Trump also boasted of how long their meeting had been. He said it was scheduled for ten minutes but lasted for an hour and a half, and could have gone on much longer.
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