Here’s The Daily Caller List of People Trump is Considering For Senior Roles

With so much interest and speculation out there, I thought it might be useful to share The Daily Caller’s List of People Donald Trump Is Considering For Senior White House Jobs. According to the DC, the list was “provided by a member of the transition team on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press.”

Here it is:

Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff

Stephen K. Bannon, Reince Priebus

Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.

Keith Kellogg, Mike Rogers

Assistant to the President and Press Secretary.

Jason Miller, Sean Spicer, Kellyanne Conway

Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Planning.
Corey Lewandowski, Katie Walsh

Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
Stephen Miller, Sam Clovis

Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor.Michael T. Flynn, Mike Rogers, Stephen Hadley

Assistant to the President and Director of Speechwriting. Stephen Miller, Cliff Sims

Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement.

None listed

Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations.

David Bossie, Katie Walsh

Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor.

Clare Lopez, Walid Phares, Andy Keiser

Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council.

Stephen Miller

Assistant to the President and Director, Office of Legislative Affairs.

Rick Dearborn

Assistant to the President and Director of Communications.

Jason Miller, Stephen Miller, Cliff Sims

Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor

Kellyanne Conway, Corey Lewandowski

Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council. 

Dan Dimicco, David Malpass

White House Counsel

Don McGahn, Alan Garten

At a quick glance, the area of most concern seems to be in the national security arena. As the Daily Caller notes:

Like Sessions, former GOP Michigan Rep. Mike Rogers, formerly the chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, appears likely to have influence in the Trump administration. He is being considered for both national security advisor and assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. His former chief of staff, Andy Keiser, is also being considered for the position of deputy national security advisor.

Two other people listed for national security advisor are retired Army Lt. Gen. Micheal Flynn, who served as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President Barack Obama, and Stephen Hadley, who served in the same role under former President George W. Bush. Flynn, Rogers, and Hadley are all hawkish. Flynn has called for the destruction of the Syrian city of Raqqa, Hadley served as deputy national security adviser during the invasion of Iraq and Rogers said in 2014 that ground troops should be deployed to fight the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

Meanwhile, when it comes to Flynn, there may be some serious conflicts of interest at play.

As we learn from a separate Daily Caller article:

An intelligence consulting firm founded by retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s top military adviser, was recently hired as a lobbyist by an obscure Dutch company with ties to Turkey’s government and its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The revelation of that new lobbying contract, which has not been previously reported, raises several questions given that Trump is said to be considering Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to take over as either Secretary of Defense or National Security Advisor.

It also raises questions about disclosure.

Flynn wrote an op-ed for The Hill on Tuesday, just before Trump’s stunning upset of Hillary Clinton, in which he heaped praised on Erdogan and called on the next president, whoever that would be, to accede his request to extradite the U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen back to Turkey.

“From Turkey’s point of view, Washington is harboring Turkey’s Osama bin Laden,” Flynn asserted.

The piece does not include a disclosure that Flynn Intel Group, the consulting firm that Flynn founded in Oct. 2014, just after leaving DIA, was recently hired to lobby Congress by a Dutch company called Inovo BV that was founded by a Turkish businessman who holds a top position on Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board.

A review of Dutch records shows that the company was founded by Ekim Alptekin, an ally of Erdogan’s who is director of the Turkey-U.S. Business Council, a non-profit arm of Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board. Members of the Foreign Economic Relations Board are chosen by Turkey’s general assembly and its minister of economy. In the role, Alptekin helped coordinate Erdogan’s visit to the U.S. earlier this year.

The lobbying disclosure does not say how much Inovo BV is paying Flynn’s firm. It lists former congressional aide Robert Kelley as the lobbyist who is handling the contract and says that he is working on “organizational consulting” for Inovo BV.

Flynn’s recent op-ed appears to be at odds with some of his past comments about Turkey and its role in the war against ISIS. In the op-ed he refers to the Islamic nation, which is a member of NATO, is “vital to U.S. interests” and is the U.S.’s “strongest ally” against ISIS.

Money talks. Always.

But he told journalist Seymour Hersh for an article published earlier this year that Turkey was doing little to stop foreign fighters and weapons from crossing the border into Syria.

“We understood ISIS’s long-term strategy and its campaign plans, and we also discussed the fact that Turkey was looking the other way when it came to the growth of the Islamic State inside Syria,” Flynn told Hersh for the article.

Now here are just a few examples of how Turkey is run under Erdogan:

So Who’s Really Sponsoring ISIS? Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Other U.S. “Allies”

U.S. Ally Turkey Arrests Academics for the Crime of Signing a Peace Petition

As Turkey Turns Totalitarian, EU Officials Move to Accelerate EU Membership Bid

Leading Turkish Journalists Face Life in Prison

This is concerning considering the fact Flynn is likely to hold an influential post within a Trump administration.

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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1 thought on “Here’s The Daily Caller List of People Trump is Considering For Senior Roles”

  1. Mike Rogers is a mistake. This is a liar a war mongering asshole that is key in keeping the truth of 9/11 out of public eye. I am seeing this Trump transition so far as a shoot from the hip effort. Drain the swamp Trump! In all aspects of Govt!

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