Trump makes decision about 3 key positions

On Thursday Donald Trump not only announced his appointment of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (shown) as his national security advisor, but he also advised of a significant shift in Washington’s view of Islamic terrorism under his incoming administration.

Michael Flynn, Trump’s choice to be his powerful national security advisor, is a former military intelligence chief who sees militant Islam as the biggest threat to global stability.

In strident speeches and public comments, including a fiery address at the Republican National Convention, Flynn has aggressively argued that Islamic State militants pose a threat on a global scale and demanded a far more aggressive US military campaign against the group. He has been a vocal supporter of Trump throughout his campaign and famously called for Hillary Clinton to be arrested earlier this year. The three-star officer retired in 2014.

In 2012 he was named by Obama to lead the 16,500-strong Defense Intelligence Agency, but he was forced out in less than two years amid a turbulent restructuring effort and clashes with his superiors.

In Flynn’s book, “The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and its Allies”, he condemned USA leaders who have called Islam a religion of peace.

On the campaign trail, Trump said the US government needs to be ready to use offensive cyberweapons in response to hacking attempts from other nations.

Mike Pompeo, a conservative Republican congressman from Kansas, says he accepts President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate him to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.

“General Flynn’s uncritical acceptance of the Turkish crackdown on dissent, and his call for the extradition of the cleric Gulen without seeing any evidence of complicity in the aborted coup is also worrying”, Schiff said in his statement. And in a role of national security adviser you want someone who’s steady and works well in a collaborative process with others in the national security infrastructure.

As Trump’s national security adviser he would not require Senate confirmation.

Flynn’s critics said he might understand Russian Federation too well.

Pompeo is a conservative Republican and a fierce critic of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

All three have been fierce critics of President Barack Obama’s handling of terrorism and national security, and their selection likely signals a sharp shift in US policy.

Trump is offering the post of attorney general to Alabama Sen.

“This is profoundly troubling and should be disqualifying”, Norm Eisen, who served as President Obama’s ethics adviser and later as an ambassador to the Czech Republic, told Yahoo.

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.

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

In December 2015, he told Steve Bannon on the Breitbart News radio show in response to Trump’s proposed Muslim ban that Trump’s “treading on risky ground because Americans are so deeply committed to freedom of religion”.

At the 2016 Republican National Convention, Flynn declared that “American exceptionalism must never fade”.

PENTAGON: Mira Ricardel of M. Ricardel LLC; Keith Kellogg of Cubic Corporation; Thomas Carter of Elbit Systems of America; Michael Duffey of the Republican Party of Wisconsin; William Hartzog of Burdeshaw Associates, Ltd.; Justin Johnson of the Heritage Foundation; Bert Mizusawa of the U.S. Army; and Sergio de la Pena of de la Pena Consulting LLC.

“There is no substitute for American leadership and exceptionalism”.