The bond between Republican presidential nominee frontrunner Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) as the chairman of his national security team, but on Monday, for the first time ever, he provided the Washington Post with a list of advisers that comprise the team.
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After telling MSNBC that the person he consults most on foreign policy is himself, Donald Trump finally released a partial list of his foreign policy advisers on Monday, and they are more or less what you would expect: some former government officials, a “terrorism expert” of the sort that emerged seemingly everywhere after 9/11, and a former Blackwater employee.
Later at a Washington news conference on Monday, Trump said, “I have a team, we actually have a very good team”, calling it, “a top-of-the-line team”.
“No question, as he moves closer to the convention in Cleveland and he looks more and more like the nominee every single day, all of this these people or many of them are going to come on board”, Phillips said.
The relationship between Sessions and Trump has fueled heavy speculation that Sessions would be in line for a position in Trump’s administration should he be elected president in November.
None of the men on Trump’s list are leading figures in the Republican foreign policy establishment.
The real estate mogul who has hosted several seasons of television show “The Apprentice”, failed to bring out his catchphrase, “You’re hired!”
Papdopoulos, they wrote, is the director of an worldwide energy center at the London Centre of global Law Practice.
Trump’s six foreign policy advisers include a slew of non-intervention, anti-foreign war proponents that is far from conventional for a GOP candidate.
He comes from a well-known family, as his father John Schmitz was a member of the House of Representatives, and his sister Mary Kay Letourneau gained infamy after having a sexual relationship with her 12-year-old student, to whom she is now married.
Another adviser, Walid Pares, was criticised when he was named as part of Mr Romney’s foreign policy team in 2011.
Trump told the editorial board he would be announcing more names in the coming days.
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George Papadopoulos recently served as an adviser to Mr Carson, who dropped out of the race in February. Trump was accompanied to the meeting, which took place at The Washington Post’s new headquarters, by his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and spokeswoman, Hope Hicks. He’s an oil and energy consultant. He is a former Army Lieutenant General and now, according to Costa’s and Rucker’s report, “an executive vice president at Virginia-based CACI International, a Virginia-based intelligence and information technology consulting firm with clients around the world”. He has previously served as the chief operating officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority, the transitional government established by the U.S.in Iraq after the 2003 invasion. Excellent guy. The honorable Joe Schmitz, [was] inspector general at the Department of Defense. This evening, he addresses AIPAC along with Kasich and fellow Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a Texas senator.
