Christie loyalist removed from Trump transition team

In a separate development, Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under George W. Bush who blasted Trump during the campaign, ripped into the president-elect’s transition effort Tuesday.

President-elect Donald Trump shuffled his transition team again on Tuesday, jettisoning a national security expert and lobbyists from his inner circle as he closed in on naming two loyal Wall Street backers to key economic positions. “[The shakeup] definitely caused some confusion”, one person on the transition team told Politico. Pence last week replaced New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, R, as head of Trump’s overall transition efforts, and Christie’s associates – who had been Trump’s link to the GOP mainstream for months – now find themselves losing influence. “Do I understand that it’s likely that people who’ve been involved in the center of this for some time, and have been surrogating on television, are likely front-runners?”

The clear-out of Christie and his allies was described as a “Stalinesque purge” by a source quoted by NBC News. In 2005, Christie, then the USA attorney in New Jersey, led the successful prosecution of Kushner’s father, Charles, a prominent real estate developer and philanthropist, who was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and witness tampering.

Trowbridge, said that under Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s direction, the Pentagon has prepared briefing materials to be made available to Trump transition officials.

That isn’t to say that all of Trump’s biggest fans will find sanctuary in his administration.

The moves came about in part due to friction between Kushner and Christie, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. “Is there a little confusion in NY right yet?” Hopefully they’ll get that settled pretty soon.

Mike Rogers, a former USA congressman from MI who had been mentioned as a possible pick for CIA director, was pushed out in part because Trump’s advisers believed he did not pursue Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton aggressively enough when he headed the House of Representatives intelligence committee, a source familiar with the decision said.

The message was seen as an effort to downplay reports of turmoil within his transition team following Tuesday’s shake-up that led to the ouster of several recently appointed members.

“Is there a little confusion in NY? I still think it can happen”. “I’ve spoken to the president-elect often in the last six days and what I’ve said to him is that if there’s a way I can be helpful that’s meaningful Mary Pat and I will consider it”. But just a week into Trump taking over the government he will soon rightfully control, there are already reasons to believe Trump has trouble running his transition team, let alone running the country.

The finance co-chairs include Lew Eisenberg, who ran the Republican National Committee’s joint fundraising operations with the Trump campaign. He also has worked closely with Democrats during his congressional tenure. Trump repeatedly declined to acknowledge Russia’s role, saying the evidence was inconclusive. The vice president-elect has yet to sign a memorandum of understanding facilitating interactions between transition officials and Obama administration officials.

Amid the widespread uncertainty, coordination between Trump’s transition team and the Obama White House is now on hold until Trump’s team signs a key document, the Associated Press reported. “The next step is for the President-elect’s transition team to provide us with the names of the individuals they have authorized to represent their transition effort across the government”. There is tension between different camps, with the exodus of Christie allies and the ascension of aides close to Sen.