Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Trump's Staff Picks Show Sway of Don Jr., Tucker Carlson

President-elect Donald Trump has only begun to fill out the ranks of his incoming administration. His first choices confirm that his son Donald Jr. and the former Fox TV personality Tucker Carlson have emerged as major influences over his picks.

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... Carlson and Trump Jr. played a role in persuading Trump to choose JD Vance as his running mate at the Republican convention in Milwaukee. They wielded their influence again this weekend as Trump announced former Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley wouldn't serve.

Pompeo had been angling for a job as defense secretary but was seen as too supportive of Ukraine. Pompeo had also considered a presidential run this year and criticized Trump -- though never by name -- several times.

But Trump Jr. and Carlson, who now holds forth with a webcast on X, made no secret of their opposition. Don Jr. wrote on X on Sunday: "Agreed 100% 100% 100%!!! I'm on it" in response to a tweet that said "the stop Pompeo' movement is great but it's not enough."

"Someone like Mike Pompeo, I'll just say the name, who I don't think is going to get a job in this administration " I would pray that he's not," Carlson said in an episode of his show Sunday in which he interviewed Elbridge Colby, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense. ...


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