Team Trump

TEAM TRUMP

THE TIMELINE    


Donald Trump, President

THE CABINET OF THE PRESIDENT Page

Trump Appointees, unless otherwise noted

Mike Pence, Vice President

Mick Mulvaney, January 2, 2019, replaced John F. Kelly, White House Chief of Staff  Secretary of Homeland Security, VA  -Ret. USMC General replaced Reince Priebus

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Team Trump, the U.S. Executive Branch

Executive departments

Cabinet-level offices

Federally appointed offices

CABINET-LEVEL OFFICIALS

Robert Lighthizer, Trade Representative, FL  

THE ADVISERS

H.R. McMaster,  National Security Adviser

Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence, IN  -Fmr. Senator

Stephen Miller, Sr. White House Policy Adviser, 31, Jeff Sessions’s Communications Director, American Nationalist, Anti-Feminist Became famous for defending the Duke University Lacrosse Team Rapists and one of the first Alt-Right voices on MSM

Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Adviser, Kushner’s close associate.

Sam Clovis, Nomination Withdrawn after Russiagate testimony, Campaign Co-Chair who may have introduced Carter Page and current White House Adviser for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.  Daily Caller about Clovis

Sebastian “Seb” Gorka, FIRED after McMaster joined, National Security Aide, Deputy Assistant to Trump and on the Strategic Initiatives Group with Bannon & Kushner, Breitbart National Security Editor while working on Trump Campaign   White Nationalist from Hungary, Identifies himself with their KKK-like organization.

Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Steps Down As Special Advisor To President Trump 

THE STAFF

Sarah Huckabee Sanders,White House Press Secretary,Formerly Sean Spicer & Anthony Scaramucci

Christopher Liddell, Assistant to the President, in Kushner’s White House Office of American Innovation- CFO of Microsoft, International Paper, WME-IMG and General Motors. Shares an office with Reed Cordish.

Reed Cordish, Assistant to the President for Intragovernmental and Technology Initiatives at the White House  A former Baltimore real estate developer, Friend of Kushner and in his White House Office of American Innovation. Pushing Foxconn deal in Koch stronghold WI costing estimated $230,700 per $53,000 average job.

Matt Lira, a veteran Capitol Hill staffer in Kushner’s White House Office of American Innovation

Julia Hahn, at 25 is Special Assistant to Trump, Breitbart News Writer. White Nationalist from Beverly Hills.

Hope Hicks, Communications Director August 16, 2017-, and Personal Assistant to Trump

Mercedes Schlapp, Lobbyist Cove Strategies, White House Strategic Communications Adviser

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES GROUP

The SIG answers to Reince Priebus (Resigned). Steve Bannon (Fired) and Jared Kushner created it, “run by assistant to the president Christopher Liddell, and includes deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka (Fired), who has worked closely with Bannon while writing for Breitbart, the website he used to run.”  The Daily Beast


OTHER GOVERNMENT COUNCILS

There are so many offices they can’t all be tracked on this site…Here are the ones making headlines.

A Pastor Just Became the First Member Of Trump’s Evangelical Counsel To Resign

“Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions,” they wrote in a letter to Trump. “We took a patriotic oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

They added, “Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values. Your values are not American values. We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear to you, then we call on you to resign your office, too.”  Signed by Kal Penn, Paula Boggs, Chuck Close, Richard Cohen, Fred Goldring, Howard L. Gottlieb, Vicki Kennedy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anne Luzzatto, Thom Mayne, Eric Ortner, Ken Solomon, Caroline Taylor, Jill Cooper Udall, Andrew Weinstein, George Wolfe and John Lloyd Young​

THE TRUMP FAMILY

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

Donald Trump, Jr.

Eric Trump

THE LOYALISTS

Roger Stone, Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Lobbyist and Political Strategist, under Investigation

Paul Manafort, Former Campaign Manager Under Investigation

Rudy Giuliani

Newt Gingrich

Thomas Barrack Trump’s best friend for decades who introduced him to Paul Manafort and whose PAC raised $22.7 million

When It Comes To Donald Trump’s Russia Ties, It’s All About The Aides And he seems to be taking their advice.  08/12/2016 HuffPost

Boris Epshteyn, a Trump surrogate who frequently appears on television and describes himself as a senior adviser to the campaign. The Russia-born investment banker and attorney moderated a panel at an October 2013 conference in New York City called “Invest in Moscow!HuffPost

Howard Lorber, a friend of Trump’s and a major donor to his campaign, has significant investments in Russia, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.”HuffPost

 

THE LAWYERS

Michael Cohen, Criminally charged as Trump’s personal attorney for arranging hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in order to influence the 2016 presidential election. Hired Stephen Ryan to defend him in Russian investigation.

Marc Kasowitz, special counsel Robert Mueller is examining the conflicts of interest generated by Deutsche Bank and Sberbank involvement in the Russian investigation in which Kasowitz is representing Trump. Kasowitz was Trump’s business attorney for 15 years and currently in Russian inquiry regarding the Kushner purchase of the NY Times building and subsequent $285m loan from Deutsche Bank, under investigation. Also represented Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank.

Jay Sekulow,  Under Investigation by Attorneys General Eric Schneiderman, NY and Josh Stein, NC. Chief Counsel for ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice) and CASE (Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism), which he has used for collecting religious donations in a predatory fashion and paying his family over $60 million from the proceeds. He created CASE after his 1987 bankruptcy caused by investors suing him for securities violations related to creating tax shelters and financial deals for the renovation of historic buildings in Atlanta. The Guardian

Sheri Dillon of the International and Moscow Award-Winning Law Firm Morgan Lewis, is representing Trump in his tax audit.

TRANSITION TEAM

Plans for the Transition began in April 2016 when then Senior Advisor (Paul) Manafort joined campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in the effort.  Jared Kushner was announced on May 6. NY Times   CNN   Chris Christie was announced as Transition Team leader on May 9, 2016. NBC     In August, “William F. Hagerty, a former member of Mitt Romney’s transition team, was named director of appointments while John Rader, a senior aide to United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Corker, was retained in the position of deputy director of appointments” Washington Post. Wikipedia

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TRUMP CAMPAIGN 2016

Ballotpedia complete list

Campaign Managers: 1.Corey Lewandowski   2.Paul Manafort  3.Kellyanne Conway

Steve Bannon

Donald Trump Jr.Major fundraiser, under criminal investigation for inaugural funds.

Barry Bennett

Carter Page, Under Investigation for Russian interference with the election, briefly an adviser to Campaign as Foreign Policy Adviser

Sam Clovis  

J.D. Gordon


TRUMP CAMPAIGN 2020


March 17, 2017, Associated Press for the Concord Monitor: Trump advisers richer than previous White House officials

Everyone in the White House is Leaking; How to tell Who is Leaking What in the Trump Administration Slate

THE INFLUENCERS: Explore the offshore connections of 13 Trump advisers, donors and cabinet members  ICIJ.org

Mike McCaul The Texas congressman, who’s also the chairman of the House homeland security committee

Kris Kobach Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity’s vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State, AZ’s controversial immigration law  CNN

Tom CottonThe Arkansas senator is a national security hawk, a war veteran and has authored a bill favored by immigration restriction groups to cut back on non-skills-based immigration to the US. The White House has been working with Cotton and his co-author on the bill for possible re-introduction.”  CNN