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Sessions Picked by Trump for Attorney General
Donald Trump has made his first three cabinet picks today. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, has been nominated to be the next Attorney General of the United States.
Sessions will be taking on perhaps the dirtiest of cleanup jobs in the new Trump administration which will first include cleaning out a convoluted rat’s nest of political hacks in both the Justice Department and the FBI, and thereafter deciding on dozens of prosecutions for the numerous crimes recently revealed by the Wikileaks revelations.
In another key pick, Trump announced that General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will be his new National Security Advisor.
Flynn has been an outspoken critic of the Obama defense and security policy in the past.
Trump also announced that Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Republican from Kansas, will be his pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.
In a statement, Trump said that Sessions:
“… is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him." and that;
"Flynn is one of the country’s foremost experts on military and intelligence matters."
Trump said Pompeo will "… be a brilliant and unrelenting leader for our intelligence community to ensure the safety of Americans and our allies."
Pompeo, the least known of the three, graduated #1 in his class at West point and then went on to Harvard Law School. He serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Pompeo actually backed Sen. Marco Rubio in the Republican Primary.
Today, Trump meets with former 2012 Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney who is said to want the Secretary of State position. This seems like yet another unlikely trial balloon designed to soften future dissent within the party – just as was yesterday’s meeting with Lyin’ Ted Cruz – oh, I mean, the Junior Senator from Alberta, Canada.
However, Romney does have organizational skills. If he would take on another stubborn mess – cleaning house, then reorganizing the Veterans Administration – he could serve his country with distinction once again just as he did in transforming the scandal-scarred 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games.
And hang onto your hats, Romney could be interested in Treasure Secretary as well.
In any case, Trump said he was coming to be every American’s president and that’s exactly what he is doing. Real executives only care about one thing – who can do the best job at a specific task.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the “Still Report”, the quintessential report on the economy and Washington.
Sessions Picked by Trump for Attorney General
Donald Trump has made his first three cabinet picks today. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, has been nominated to be the next Attorney General of the United States.
Sessions will be taking on perhaps the dirtiest of cleanup jobs in the new Trump administration which will first include cleaning out a convoluted rat’s nest of political hacks in both the Justice Department and the FBI, and thereafter deciding on dozens of prosecutions for the numerous crimes recently revealed by the Wikileaks revelations.
In another key pick, Trump announced that General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, will be his new National Security Advisor.
Flynn has been an outspoken critic of the Obama defense and security policy in the past.
Trump also announced that Rep. Mike Pompeo, a Republican from Kansas, will be his pick to lead the Central Intelligence Agency.
In a statement, Trump said that Sessions:
“… is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him." and that;
"Flynn is one of the country’s foremost experts on military and intelligence matters."
Trump said Pompeo will "… be a brilliant and unrelenting leader for our intelligence community to ensure the safety of Americans and our allies."
Pompeo, the least known of the three, graduated #1 in his class at West point and then went on to Harvard Law School. He serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Pompeo actually backed Sen. Marco Rubio in the Republican Primary.
Today, Trump meets with former 2012 Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney who is said to want the Secretary of State position. This seems like yet another unlikely trial balloon designed to soften future dissent within the party – just as was yesterday’s meeting with Lyin’ Ted Cruz – oh, I mean, the Junior Senator from Alberta, Canada.
However, Romney does have organizational skills. If he would take on another stubborn mess – cleaning house, then reorganizing the Veterans Administration – he could serve his country with distinction once again just as he did in transforming the scandal-scarred 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games.
And hang onto your hats, Romney could be interested in Treasure Secretary as well.
In any case, Trump said he was coming to be every American’s president and that’s exactly what he is doing. Real executives only care about one thing – who can do the best job at a specific task.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the “Still Report”, the quintessential report on the economy and Washington.
