Donald Trump sticks to hard-right positions with key appointments

Michael Flynn, the man President-elect Donald Trump plans to name as USA national security advisor, believes the government is falling behind on cybersecurity.

The former military officer made a surprise political entry by criticizing Hillary Clinton during election campaigns of Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump is offering former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn the position of national security adviser, elevating a fierce critic of current USA foreign policy into a crucial White House role.

Asked by the New York Times if members of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation could count on the Trump administration to come to their defense if they were attacked by Russia, Trump said: “If they fulfill their obligations to us, the answer is yes”. He has also been protective of the attorney general’s right to refuse a legally unsound directive from the president.

This is what is happening in Washington, D.C.as President-elect Donald Trump assembles his new administration and advisors.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign CEO Steve Bannon is pictured backstage after a campaign event in Phoenix, Arizona, Oct. 29, 2016.

Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, says Sessions is a respected colleague who “has worked across the aisle on major legislation”.

The economic team will arrive at the Treasury, Commerce Department, U.S. Trade Representative’s office, Small Business Administration and Social Security Administration.

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (National Security Adviser): Flynn is a retired three-star Army general who served in the military’s top intelligence jobs before being forced to retire in August 2014.

Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Since then he has repeatedly criticised the Obama government as inadequately focused on the threat from extremists.

“Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL: please forward this to others: the truth fears no questions”, he wrote on February 26, 2016. He graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1981 with a degree in management science and was commissioned a second lieutenant in military intelligence. But he left the military after President Barack Obama fired him as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 following complaints about his leadership style.

Alptekin said Friday that Flynn’s editorial supporting Erdogan was not connected to his company’s lobbying or the Turkish government. The Senate denied him a federal judgeship in 1986 after he was accused of making racially charged remarks while USA attorney in Alabama.

Back in 1986, Sessions said that a prominent white lawyer was a “disgrace to his race” for defending African-Americans.

Also reportedly under discussion is Mitt Romney, a former MA governor and private-equity investor who lost to Obama in the 2012 presidential race.

Sessions has also been a fiery opponent of immigration, waging war on efforts to pass comprehensive immigration reform through Congress in 2007 and 2013.

Sessions was the first senator to endorse Trump and was a close adviser throughout the campaign.

He has clashed with the past two Democratic attorneys general on whether terrorism suspects deserve American constitutional rights in civilian court and on the planned closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

And speaking of blurred lines, during Trump’s first official meeting with a foreign official. daughter Ivanka is pictured sitting in on the high-level discussion with the Japanese prime minister on Thursday. “Why do we go through all the nonsense with security at our airport?”

Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Alanna Durkin in Richmond, Virginia; Rebecca Santana in New Orleans; Rachel Zoll in NY; and Denise Lavoie in Boston.

Mitt Romney is headed to Trump’s golf course in New Jersey this weekend to meet with next president to talk about the future as well. “We think it’s a victory for everybody”.

Meanwhile, for many foreign-policy experts, the most important question is who will be Trump’s choice to be the United States’ lead diplomat: secretary of state.

Washington attorney A. Scott Bolden said Trump is “0 for 4” on diversity: All his picks are white men.