Posted on 12/03/2016 6:18:27 PM PST by springwater13
According to two people close to the transition, Trump is moving away from two of the front-runners for the job, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP nominee. Giuliani's international business ties and public campaigning for the job are said to have rankled Trump. And while Trump has met twice with Romney, he's said to be aware of the risks of angering his supporters by tapping a Republican who was among his fiercest critics.
Former CIA director David Petraeus is still in the mix, though both people close to the transition said Trump's prolonged decision-making process has left the door open to other options.
One of the sources said Trump was open to expanding his short list of secretary of State prospects. Among the possibilities: Jon Huntsman, a former Republican Utah governor who also served as the ambassador to China and speaks Mandarin.
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KEEP Guiliani for something, dump Petraeus and Romney for anything.
I’m still available.
John Huntsman = Disaster.
Agree1
Huntsman? This can’t be true.
Oh, yeah, Huntsman is a real prize, isn’t he?
It’ll be Bolton.
Bob Corker coming your way. I don’t know enough to have an opinion.
How about Guiliani for Homeland Security?
Jon Huntsman Jr. is a total disaster, he said the other day on a radio program here that he thought Hatch has outlasted his date time and he believed in ‘term limits’ and blah blah blah...anything to get elected...
He is as dirty and rotten as Romney!!!
Anyone or anything above Horseyface is an upgrade. A wad of chewing gum stuck under your shoe is a vast improvement of what we have currently now...
Huntsman backed Trump on FOX News today for talking to Taiwan. His positions on other issues is kind of irrelevant as long as he shares Trump’s foreign policy vision.
Anyone is better than Romney!
We’ll see. Trump has done a good job so far so I’ll wait before I bite.
I see Rudy as a perfect fit for DHS.
Hopefully coming around to the only man for the job, John Bolton
John Bolton on negotiating with other countries.....”Here. Do this. Sign here. Bye.”
Trumps just playing with the gerbalists.
I think Kris Kobach would be great in Homeland Security but may have a lot of trouble getting confirmed. He is controversial. I kind of like the idea of Guiliani at Homeland and Kobach as his deputy. But Guiliani apparently only wants State. Trump is annoyed he is setting the terms and not Trump. Don’t cross Trump!
I’m now down with the argument for Bolton. He knows who the bad actors in Foggy Bottom are and can clean house for a couple of years.
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