Jared Kushner Consults Lawyer About Joining Trump Administration

Gen. Michael Flynn has been offered the job of national security advisor and Alabama Sen. Likewise, Trump’s nominee for Attorney General, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, was denied a federal judgeship in the 1980s after allegations of racism. But if Trump actually follows through on his plan to purge President Obama’s generals as his first order of business, he could provoke a crisis in civil-military relations at the very beginning of his presidency.

Speaking to Forbes on Tuesday, attorney and former deputy White House counsel under President Barack Obama Leslie Kiernan wondered: “What if the president had to decide whether to impose sanctions against a country in which his family held substantial real estate that would plummet in value if the sanctions were imposed?” But current State Department officials are not believed to be involved in those briefings. The Trump issue overshadowed the president’s interactions with world leaders earlier this week in Athens, Greece, and Berlin. His transition team members begin meeting with the executive branch staffers on an agency level to put the transition in place. Days after winning the presidency, the new president-elect abruptly replaced the man who for months had been running his transition efforts, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, with the soon-to-be vice president, Mike Pence.

Foreign policy is also a factor “because of the global reach of the Trump Organization”.

Duda and Trump spoke late Wednesday in their first talk.

But nearly as a passing mention in the D.C. Circuit’s 1993 opinion, the court said that the federal anti-nepotism statute does not appear to cover staff in the White House or in the Executive Office of the President.

Many world leaders were eager to make contact with him after his surprising victory last week.

But not all sources familiar with the transition said the narrative was entirely accurate.

As President-elect Donald Trump considers staffing his administration, the consideration of one person in Mr. Trump’s inner circle is already presenting some potential legal obstacles: Jared Kushner, husband to Ivanka Trump and the president-elect’s son-in-law. Some claim U.S. Code Title 3 gives Trump some leeway in tapping people – and possibly family members – to “serve at the pleasure of the president” on the White House staff, because the anti-nepotism law applies to federal agencies and not the White House.

Some of the criticism comes as the transition team works to make key Cabinet appointments, at times coming under fire for a perceived lack of preparation, but Batt argues that’s the reason Trump was successful on November 8. But on the same day, Mr Trump’s transition leader and Vice-President-elect Mike Pence announced a new ban on lobbyists. “That’s not a fair shot”, Mr. Axelrod tweeted on Thursday. “That’s not a fair shot”.

2008: Obama makes no major announcements. “I don’t know where all the other members stand but that’s something I’ve always been in favor of”.

Asked if Trump was close to making any decisions regarding his Cabinet choices, Miller said the focus is on putting together “the absolute best team”, and there is no “arbitrary” timetable for announcing cabinet choices.

“There’s a certain amount of chaos that is built into every transition”, Chen said. Leaks flowed out of Trump Tower faster than transition staff could plug them, while the president-elect himself sneaked away from his press corps for an evening out at the 21 Club in Manhattan. “He has not applied for anything formally and I just think many of these press reports are false and inaccurate”, Conway, Trump’s former campaign manager, said on ” Good Morning America“.

“Some of this is part of a natural process”, said Chen, a CNN contributor.

Kushner nearly single-handedly built the campaign infrastructure needed to win the election, they said, designating specific teams to handle social media and advertising, scheduling and budget concerns.