WH Says Trump Team Clears Up Transition Problem

He then said the Times “looked like fools” in their coverage.

There is Steve Bannon, head of Breitbart and Trump’s campaign CEO, who turned his “news” site into Trump’s personal propaganda arm and has brought white supremacy and ethno-nationalism explicitly into Trump’s circle. Among the visitors was Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, an advocate for a crackdown on illegal immigration who reportedly is under consideration for a Cabinet post.

Officials for Pence and the transition could not immediately be reached for comment.

Meanwhile, the process has also revived key questions about transparency and potential conflicts of interest in a Trump presidency.

However, Trump’s appointment of Steve Bannon as chief strategist was criticized by Democrats, civil rights organizations and some Republicans.

In a call with reporters, Sanders accused Trump of reneging on his vow to clean up Washington D.C. They declined to provide details about how many lobbyists had been fired or to name them, but said it was a priority for Pence and Trump. When the votes were in, Messrs Trump and Pence discovered to their dismay that the Governor was still offering them a mostly blank sheet of paper. He said concerns with Trump’s support of aggressive policing tactics, his tax plans and any move to deport immigrants living in the United States illegally.

Since Trump’s upset victory in the November 8 election, he and his aides have turned to the task of building political and policy apparatuses across the USA government nearly from scratch ahead of his January inauguration – a steep job for any incoming president.

Vice President-Elect Mike Pence on Tuesday ordered the removal of all lobbyists from the Trump transition team, one of his first decisions since formally taking over the lead role. Trump’s closing refrain of his campaign was that he would “drain the swamp” in Washington, but his initial transition team was flush with lobbyists.

Trump’s team noted that President Barack Obama waited until a few weeks after the 2008 election to announce many of his Cabinet appointments.

“No administration is ready on Day One”, Biden said following the meeting at the Naval Observatory, which serves as the vice presidential residence. But he will probably still be an unofficial adviser to the new president.

A Trump official said John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations, also was in contention for the top diplomatic job. There are three of Trump’s adult children and a son-in-law.

Trump has also pledged to introduce ethics reforms that would expand the definition of lobbying to cut down on the revolving door in Washington, but it’s unclear whether that would apply to his transition.

Rebekah Mercer, the scion of a powerful family of conservative donors and a member of Mr. Trump’s executive transition committee, has said in conversations with Republican operatives and previous administration officials that she was having trouble finding takers for posts at the under secretary level and below, according to a person familiar with her outreach efforts. And a move to purge some transition advisers and employees has further slowed the process of getting the incoming administration off the blocks.

That overhaul temporarily put the brakes on transition talks with the White House. He said Tuesday that after an exchange with Trump’s team, he had “changed my recommendation” and urged others to “stay away”. White House officials said Pence delivered them Tuesday.

‘He knows exactly what the president elect wants to see.

Mason says it is critical that journalists covering the president-elect “be allowed to do their job”.

Adam Button, currency analyst at ForexLive discusses moves in the US dollar and other currencies after Donald Trump‘s USA election victory. The vice President-elect plans to meet with House Republicans and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi the following day.

One could nearly feel sorry for Chris Christie, if that dignity train had not left the station months ago.

Trump has only been President-elect for a week.

He also tweeted that he was not trying to get top-level security clearance for his children, saying: “This was a typically false news story”.

Loyalists such as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton were being considered for secretary of state, according to sources close to Trump.

There had been rampant speculation in recent days that such an effort was being attempted. The former Goldman Sachs partner was Trump’s campaign finance manager.

Erdogan said: “Hold on a second. How will he govern, let’s see that first”.

That alone would disqualify several of the staff on the organizational chart, including some who were leading agency teams.

Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday that the process of selecting his new cabinet and other positions was “very organised”.

On the other hand, it is hard to believe that Trump cares even one iota about whether his advisors are ethically (to say nothing of criminally) compromised.