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Trump starts considering Cabinet
The Hill ^ | 23 Jul 2016 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 07/23/2016 4:17:53 PM PDT by mandaladon

CLEVELAND — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is already focused on picking people for his future Cabinet.

A day before accepting his party’s nomination and completing an astonishing political rise that has taken him to the heights of the Republican Party’s power, Trump met with his inner circle at the Cleveland Westin to discuss his possible transition.

Eric Trump told The Hill that his father is determined to put together a Cabinet that can help him turn around the country. He suggested his father would look to the private sector to find effective leadership for government.

“You have to have the best people, and you have to put those people in charge, and those people have to be the best at what they do, and that’s going to be my father’s message,” Trump said.

“If we’re going to have the biggest deals in the world, which are trade deals, why not have the best guys negotiate this? Why not have the Carl Icahns or the top guys of Wall Street?” he added. “It’s why they’re worth millions and billions of dollars. It’s because they’re tough and they’re shrewd.”

Donald Trump recently floated former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin as a possible choice to head the Treasury Department, a development first reported by Fortune. Mnuchin serves as the national finance chairman of his campaign.

Icahn, one of the nation’s savviest investors, said last year he was not interested in heading Treasury.

“You’ll probably see a lot of people who are outside traditional Washington, D.C.,” Eric Trump added. “The people who are in there right now haven’t exactly done this country wonders.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; mnuchin; trump; trumpcabinet
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To: Afterguard

>Bridge too far<


121 posted on 07/23/2016 6:03:21 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long .as it's mandatory.)
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To: PhiloBedo

Exactly!


122 posted on 07/23/2016 6:06:06 PM PDT by ssschev (Pick up the can, throw out the trash.)
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To: Pelham

I was just being a little sensitive about the evolution of the EPA being blamed on Nixon is all.


123 posted on 07/23/2016 6:07:09 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: mandaladon
This government could run better, more effectively and less costly by eliminating about 700,000 bureaucrats.

While at the same time they can get a taste of what Middle America has experienced in the past 20+ years.

☺☺

124 posted on 07/23/2016 6:10:31 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Sacajaweau

Alabama’s gov. is a Republican. But Christie has my confidence as a fed. prosecutor.


125 posted on 07/23/2016 6:10:36 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (I believe it! He's alive! Sweet Jesus!)
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To: Karl Spooner

Domestically Nixon behaved a lot like LBJ, and a number of agencies that vex us today were his doing.


126 posted on 07/23/2016 6:11:42 PM PDT by Pelham (Best.Election.Ever)
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To: Lopeover
as people move from dependence to self reliance

In some cases, yes, but with a definite ramp-down plan and date of disassembly.

127 posted on 07/23/2016 6:13:20 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: mandaladon
Victory and vengeance!

Trump can drive the USS Iowa up the Potomac for the inauguration day festivities.

128 posted on 07/23/2016 6:14:33 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Baldwin77

What’s the difference, I really don’t know I thought they were the same .


129 posted on 07/23/2016 6:17:11 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: mandaladon

How about he wins the election first before picking the staff & measuring for the drapes


130 posted on 07/23/2016 6:18:39 PM PDT by TMSuchman (Tis time to feed the Tree of Liberty again!!)
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To: Karl Spooner

What about the czars? Will Trump keep them?


131 posted on 07/23/2016 6:20:43 PM PDT by lilypad
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Aye!


132 posted on 07/23/2016 6:21:42 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight ("Victorious warriors win first, then go to war." Sun Tsu)
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To: OKSooner
Someone technology savvy... someone who needs some attention after having been jerked around by Ted Cruz... it must really hurt to be dumped at the Indianapolis airport to fly home on your own dime... girls have feelings, you know

She's good at downsizing, I think we can all agree on that.

133 posted on 07/23/2016 6:36:37 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Jim 0216

What has to ramp up first is the economy. There must be jobs.


134 posted on 07/23/2016 6:41:08 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: mandaladon; All

I’ve been saying for months that Newt’s skills are too valuable and multi-faceted to be a mere VP, but instead Newt should be Trump’s Senior Advisor or Chief of Staff.


135 posted on 07/23/2016 6:58:26 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Jim 0216

If those departments really have to go, and I mean really have to go, Trump is going to see that, and he is going to make a Herculean effort to kill them on his watch.

He’s not going to entrust anything that important to anyone else.


136 posted on 07/23/2016 6:58:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: Jim 0216

Wasn’the referring to cabinet positions, just adding that the alphabet agencies must be reigned in or eliminated. They are the real threat to our liberty.


137 posted on 07/23/2016 6:59:07 PM PDT by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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To: Jim 0216

Yup.


138 posted on 07/23/2016 7:00:06 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

Homeland needs to vanish along with Energy, Education, EPA, and a few others.


139 posted on 07/23/2016 7:01:49 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; All

Yup. Ted will also be responsible for the urinal cakes and mopping up the drips since he is one.


140 posted on 07/23/2016 7:03:50 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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