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Trump Announces Transition Team: Includes Children...
Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/11/2016 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 11/12/2016 10:40:41 AM PST by GilGil

FULL TITLE: Trump Announces Transition Team: Includes Children Don Jr., Ivanka, Eric — Jared Kushner, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon

Vice President-elect Mike Pence will take over the job of leading the Trump Transition Team from Governor Chris Christie.

Donald Trump has included three of his adult children on the team, Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric, along with Jared Kushner, his son in law.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence will take over the job of leading the Trump Transition Team from Governor Chris Christie.

Donald Trump has included three of his adult children on the team, Don Jr, Ivanka and Eric, along with Jared Kushner, his son in law.

trump children kids Gay Paypal co-founder Peter Thiel and Campaign manager Stephen K. Bannon will also be part of the team as well as donor Rebekah Mercer and RNC chairman Reince Priebus.

The New York Times reported:

The president-elect told advisers he wanted to tap Mr. Pence’s Washington experience and contacts to help move the process along, according to people familiar with the discussions. An executive committee including members of Congress will advise Mr. Pence as the process moves forward.

Mr. Christie, along with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and Michael T. Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who has been a top campaign supporter, will serve as vice chairmen of the transition, the sources said.

The transition team is adding 12 members, including a Republican donor, Rebekah Mercer; Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump’s campaign chairman; Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee; Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal; Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee; and three of Mr. Trump’s adult children and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; election; transition; trump
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Looks like Trump knows exactly what he is doing and is moving at lightning speed.

It's also wise to have family in this mix so they can be his personal eyes and ears. Very wise! What an experience this is for the Trump kids.

1 posted on 11/12/2016 10:40:41 AM PST by GilGil
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To: GilGil
Trump's eyes and ears...
2 posted on 11/12/2016 10:42:01 AM PST by GilGil (E. Deplorabus Unum)
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To: GilGil

And why shouldn’t his best advisers be his children. They are smarter than the DC political class


3 posted on 11/12/2016 10:44:25 AM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: GilGil

Sounds good to me!

Saving Kellyanne for chief of staff??


4 posted on 11/12/2016 10:45:01 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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To: Nifster

They are more supervisors to report back than advisers.


5 posted on 11/12/2016 10:45:42 AM PST by GilGil (E. Deplorabus Unum)
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To: americas.best.days...

Saving Kellyanne for chief of staff??

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No idea where she would fit.


6 posted on 11/12/2016 10:46:48 AM PST by GilGil (E. Deplorabus Unum)
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To: GilGil

Let’s get Ted Cruz on the SCOTUS!

I’d do that on day one.


7 posted on 11/12/2016 10:47:54 AM PST by Gunpowder green
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To: GilGil

Press Secretary


8 posted on 11/12/2016 10:47:59 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: GilGil
This "businessman" brings a perspective to the Oval Office which can significantly improve the President's ability to communicate his Administration's policies and the underlying reasons for them.

"How we (and you) will be judged" by future generations is by whether we have preserved the Constitution's principles and ideas, and by whether those who judge us can enjoy "the Blessings of Liberty," protected by that Constitution.

Ultimately, history always records the exact periods of time and the means by which nations become free, and it also records the period when artful and designing officials lead their citizens into yielding up their liberty.

America's history will be no different! We can read the ideas and principles upon which this Republic was formed--ideas rooted in enduring principles of right and wrong and of Creator-endowed, thus unalienable, life, rights, laws and liberty.

As we allow imperfect persons who have gained positions of power to confuse us, to lead us to yield up our liberty, then we deny our inheritance and lay the burdens of our foolishness and constitutional illiteracy on those who will follow, and they will judge us, as well they should.

The choice is between individual freedom and slavery to government--a tyrannical form of slavery.

The formula structured by the Constitution of the United States and laid out in its philosophical foundations--as asserted in the 1776 Declaration of Independence from an overly-powerful government administered by King George III--were explained by America's Founders.

Their writings and speeches, as well as the wisdom writings from previous defenders of liberty, are available online.

THE FEDERALIST, that collection of 85 essays explaining the Constitution's provisions and protections, now can be read in every home and school as a means of enlightening a public which has become too willing to yield their Creator-endowed liberty to a collection of would-be tyrants who call themselves "progressives," but are, in fact taking American citizens back to the bondage from which their ancestors fled in other parts of the world.

Several years ago, a business man by the name of James R. Evans, in his book, "America's Choice: Twilight's Last Gleaming or Dawn's Early Light," suggested 7 simple principles which every citizen could benefit from considering as they watch the so-called "progressives," now led by Obama/Clinton, attempt to enslave them through legislation and Executive Orders.

"1. Does this legislation or idea increase, or decrease, individual freedom and creativity?

"2. Does this legislation or idea increase, or decrease, the power of some citizens over other citizens?

"3. Does this legislation or idea recognize that the persons who will exercise the power are themselves imperfect human beings?

"4. Does this legislation or idea recognize that government is incapable of creating wealth?

"5. Does this legislation or idea authorize taking from some what belongs to them, and giving it to others to whom it does not belong?
If 'thou shalt not steal' is a valid commandment, can we assume that it is meant to apply only to individuals and not to government (which is made up of individuals), even if those persons in power pass laws which sanction such redistribution of the wealth of others?'

"6. Does this legislation or idea encourage, or discourage, the very highest level of morality and responsibility from the individual?
. . .when government makes actions 'legal' by some citizens at the expense of other citizens, the result may be behavior which would not be considered possible by individuals acting alone.

"7. Does this legislation or idea propose that the 'government' do something which the individual cannot do without committing a crime?"**

**7 principles drawn from James R. Evans book, "America's Choice," and reprinted in a Stedman Corporation (Asheboro, NC) booklet entitled "I'm Only One, What Can I Do?"

The simplicity of these questions and of the core message of the following words by some of America's Founders might jar some citizens into a recognition of what "progressives" and this Administration are doing to the future of liberty for their posterity:

"...nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams

"This was a favorable moment to shut and bar the door against paper money." [This statement referred to a proposed provision in Article I, Section 8, that would have read 'and emit bills of credit (paper money) of the United States,' which the Founders rejected by an overwhelming vote.] - James Madison- Notes of the Federal Convention 1787

"...there have always been those who wish to enlarge the powers of the General Government. There is but one safe rule...confine (it) within the sphere of its appropriate duties. It has no power to raise a revenue or impose taxes except for the purposes enumerated in the Constitution....Every attempt to exercise power beyond these limits should be promptly and firmly opposed." - Andrew Jackson's Valedictory

"...experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government), those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate...the minds of the people...to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth. History, by apprizing them of the past, will enable them to judge of the future...it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views...." - Jefferson's Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge for Virginia

"Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson?...the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it....It is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently free." - James Madison

"These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety." - Thomas Jefferson-First Inaugural Statement of Principles of Good Government



9 posted on 11/12/2016 10:48:00 AM PST by loveliberty2
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To: GilGil

Heck, Kennedy picked his Brother to be AG and gave him the task of Blackmailing MLK.


10 posted on 11/12/2016 10:49:11 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: GilGil

His Eyes and Ears. Trustworthy and loyal eyes and ears. Impossible to find in today’s political classes.


11 posted on 11/12/2016 10:49:23 AM PST by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: GilGil
D Y N A S T Y
i n . t h e . m a k i n g

12 posted on 11/12/2016 10:50:24 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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“Trump Announces Transition Team: Includes Children...”

That’s ok, the whole friggen White House was full of CHILDREN under Obama.


13 posted on 11/12/2016 10:51:26 AM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: Don Corleone

His Eyes and Ears. Trustworthy and loyal eyes and ears. Impossible to find in today’s political classes.

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Precisely!

I am puzzled why Tiffany is not in the mix as well.


14 posted on 11/12/2016 10:51:42 AM PST by GilGil (E. Deplorabus Unum)
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To: Gunpowder green

And maybe replace Roberts too with a real conservative.


15 posted on 11/12/2016 10:53:26 AM PST by libh8er
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To: GilGil

Tiffany is a tad too young.

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16 posted on 11/12/2016 10:53:36 AM PST by Mears
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To: GilGil

Absolutely!


17 posted on 11/12/2016 10:53:50 AM PST by GOP Poet
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To: Gunpowder green

...Ted Cruz's upcoming position...
...and well earned...
18 posted on 11/12/2016 10:53:53 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The morning and the evening were the election day. People voted. The Lord saw, and it was good.)
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To: GilGil

The Muscle Shoals rhythm section was called The Swampers, I dont see why this group shouldnt be The Swamp Drainers!

Very interesting to see Rebecca Mercer directly involved. She said her family was tired of handing over money to politicians who went to DC and failed to do anything they promised to do. Kellyanne ran the PAC the Mercers funded for Cruz.

We are seeing a new power coalition forming here.


19 posted on 11/12/2016 10:54:28 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: GilGil

and Marsha would be a great Speaker.


20 posted on 11/12/2016 10:55:39 AM PST by dadfly
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