Trump picks retired Gen. John Kelly to lead DHS

This particular background was a likely factor in Trump’s final decision to nominate Gen. Kelly, since he has firsthand experience dealing with issues on the southern border.

General Kelly knows first hand the cost and devastating effects of war.

Kelly’s appointment requires confirmation from the Republican-controlled Senate next year.

Donald Trump is expected to pick retired Marine Gen. John F. Kelly for secretary of Homeland Security, putting an outspoken combat leader in charge of defending the USA from terrorist attacks and carrying out Trump’s promised crackdown on illegal immigration.

We caution, however, that because President-elect Trump’s meteoric rise was built on border security, we believe no other cabinet-level nominee will be under more pressure to produce.

“We’re going to work something out that’s going to make people happy and proud”, Trump said in an interview with Time magazine.

In addition, transition officials said Linda McMahon, 68, former CEO of professional wrestling company WWE WWE.N and wife of wrestling kingpin Vince McMahon, was Trump’s choice to head the Small Business Administration. He is a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. The Milwaukee sheriff met with the president-elect and a small collection of top advisers at Trump Tower on November 28.

While the rank-and-file of the United States military appears to have heavily favored Trump in the election-partly out of the misguided hope that he would halt the unending wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East-Democrat Hillary Clinton was the favorite of the top USA military brass, who considered her a veteran supporter of militarism and a more reliable backer of their strategic preparations for war against Russian Federation.

Pruitt’s selection brought a quick rebuke from Democrats.

“Although I am troubled by his alarmist statements in the past on the security of our borders, I hope General Kelly’s decades of experience in working in government and with our global partners will be put to good use in the new Administration”.

Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said she hopes “that Gen. Kelly is willing to stand up for facts, families and the Constitution”.

As for Romney, Trump denied he was stringing Romney along to make him pay for saying the former reality show star was unfit to serve.

As he considers who to surround himself with, Trump is calling on President Obama for counsel.

He would be responsible for delivering some of Trump’s most controversial campaign promises, including building a wall on the border with Mexico, boosting deportations of immigrants in the country illegally and potentially tracking foreign Muslim visitors.

The move was immediately criticized by immigrant rights groups while praised by those advocating for stronger borders.

Roy Beck, who leads the group NumbersUSA – a group that wants to reduce legal immigration as well as deport illegal immigrants – told The Hill he’s anxious that Kelly will spend his time at the department focused exclusively on terrorism and neglect the issue of undocumented workers.

U.S. Southern Command, according to the Department of Defense, oversees “all Defense Department security cooperation in the 45 nations and territories of Central and South America and the Caribbean Sea, an area of 16 million square miles”. Trump has vowed to keep the prison open.

If Kelly and retired Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis – who was tapped as Trump’s secretary of defense last week – are both nominated and confirmed, then it would place two retired Marine generals into Cabinet posts in his administration.

Timothy Hagle, who teaches political science at the University of Iowa, said the generals have qualities Trump appreciates: an ability to be “straight talking, very blunt” and to “focus on the mission regardless” of political leanings.

But Sharry said he was concerned over the number of generals Trump has appointed.

“He’s forming a pickup team on the fly”.