Posted on 02/04/2016 9:09:00 AM PST by conservativejoy
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is already looking ahead to forming his top White House team and is considering one of his sons as the head of the Interior Department.
In an interview with Petersen's Hunting, he offered both his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, as the cabinet secretary because they are hunters and anglers and members of key conservation and Second Amendment groups.
In the interview with editor Mike Schoby, Trump said that "ideally" he wants an outdoorsman to run the agency that manages federal land.
"Ideally yes, they'd be better at it," said Trump.
In the interview with his father, Donald Trump Jr. said that the Interior job has been the talk inside the family for months.
"We understand hunting as conservation," said Donald Jr. in the interview Schoby did for his magazine and its parent company, Outdoor Sportsman Group.
Donald Jr. said, "Our big inside joke over Thanksgiving and Christmas, now that this thing has become very real with the presidency, is, 'Hey Don, the only thing you'd be doing in government is actually Interior.' So I don't know if I'd be the head of it or just informing the [head], but rest assured that hunters and shooters and others know that I'd have his ear."
Both sons are long-time hunters and Donald Jr. said that he just became the youngest board member of Boone & Crockett Club, the nation's oldest hunting and conservation group founded by former President Theodore Roosevelt.
In the interview, Trump also said he would end gun free zones around military bases and local schools even if he has to "override the states" with federal laws.
And the long-time National Rifle Association members warned that Democrat Hillary Clinton wants to eliminate the Second Amendment. "I think it's going to be gone," he said, adding, "she will destroy the Second Amendment as you know it."
Love the Nuge, but he is probably having too much fun to want to get into the Washington mess.
It is very well done, that gives us a clue on how Madoff worked his charm and Ponzi scheme.....must have read the Art of the Deal.
I suggest everyone tune in tonight.to see the arrest. Then I after the show, they will show how Mrs. Madoff is faring now.
I don’t care, but I find this hard to believe when they have a huge business to run. But if he wants to give his son a job, I don’t care.
Sister on USSC
Shut the hell up with your vicious lies. She is 81......you are a liar. She is not going on the Supreme Court. And I’d appreciate it if you would stop lying.
Trump said it. Is quoting him lying?
“Who’s a better Consigliere than my father?”
Me neither.
President gets to hire whoever he thinks is best.
I just thought it was kind of funny to see the word “plot” used.
Evil people plot. I expect that’s what the author and the person who posted this trash story are trying to imply.
Fine. Drop the sister. Let’s talk about the sons being in Cabinet positions. You know, the same kids that are going to take over the real estate business to prevent a conflict of interest.
I am cool with that too. The sons and his daughters have turned out to be very educated and appropriate. The only question I have is who is going to run the business. So until I find Trump naming his children to cabinet posts, I will withhold any real belief it will happen.
And you won’t find out about that until after he is elected, when it is too late to respond. All you can go on today are his words.
And as this exchange as well as others has noted, your defense of Trump includes telling me to ignore some of what he says (the liberal policies of the past, now the sister comment, etc).
So, how will you discern which words should be ignored, and which should’nt? Which bucket does “build the wall” fall into, and how do you know that with certainly?
I trust him. And his sister is actually very conservative. She spoke for Alito so if she were pro-choice, he would be the last person she’d endorse. I think the pro-choice thing is a tall tale.
Trump will build the wall more then any other candidate.
Trump is fine. Why are you worried. I love the Cruz caused ACA because of John Roberts.....I knew John Roberts was a mistake and said so on this very site.........Cruz loved him.
I remember some wag on FR saying he wouldn't vote for anyone that died his hair with Tang.
One should remember that JFK and RFK fired J. Edger as did LBJ, after them, but he didn't leave until he died, wonder how that happened?
Oh yeah? Where did the FBI files Hillary stole go?
I am not worried. I have just looked at Trump’s full history and came to a different conclusion than you did.
I did the same for Cruz. Yes, Cruz recommended Roberts as one on his list. I have also looked into that recommendation and what he based it on. He made a mistake, and has acknowledged that. He now says that Roberts betrayed him and all conservatives and is critical of him.
If you can give Trump a pass on his entire liberal past, why does the one Roberts mistake hold such weight?
Cabinet positions? You mean the ones that no longer have power because presidents just by pass them and now have Czars which do not require congressional approval?
Find something real to worry or complain about.
Are you as generous in your analysis of Cruz, his policies and potential cabinet selections?
Roger that!
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