Posted on 11/12/2016 4:20:54 AM PST by upchuck
The Trump team has added a name to its list of potential candidates for secretary of defense — outgoing Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), according to two sources familiar with the ongoing discussions. If chosen, Ayotte would stand out in a Trump administration as a neoconservative defense hawk and one of the few women in the incoming Trump Cabinet.
No decisions have been made and the current list for possible defense secretary picks still centers around retired Army Lt. Gen. Joseph “Keith” Kellogg, former Defense Intelligence Agency director Gen. Mike Flynn and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). Flynn would need a congressional waiver to bypass a law that requires any defense secretary to be seven years out of active duty service before taking command of the Pentagon.
But Ayotte’s name has surfaced in internal discussions as a potential olive branch to the GOP foreign policy establishment that the Trump campaign was often at odds with over the past year. Ayotte is regarded as knowledgeable and competent, sources familiar with the discussions said, and would surely get swift Senate confirmation.
I give zero credence to anything from the Washington Post. They get everything wrong, often deliberately.
One of two things. Either someone on the transition team has suffered a serious mental incident or the WaPO just got punked. Again.
Never
No Freaking way!!
Haha, Ayotte over Flynn. Riiight.
Ayotte refused to support Trump in her failed reelection bid and she voted for the Gang of 8 bill. Bad choice.
Hard to imagine the WP having a lot of sources in the Trump camp. I could see Trump floating various trial balloons to gage the reaction
Obama is golfing. Michelle is packing. The dogs are barking. The kids are sleeping.
And the Trump Camp is "Silent".
If people here speak loudly enough, it won’t happen.
Ayotte could have said “ok I’ll vote for Trump after all” but still was a NeverTrumper; I think she said she would write in Pence. Days before the election, a big rally was held in NH for Trump and she could have gotten on stage etc. Maybe held some votes. Instead she lost the election narrowly, to “Taxin’ Hassan”
Hassan 354,649
Ayotte 353,630
NO NO NO. She lost for a reason. She is treacherous. She is not a good match for that position or any position, not even dogcatcher.
Compost pissin’ us off on purpose!
bingo!
She just lost. A loser, disloyal, no experience at war or warfighting.
Trump is smarter than that.
Rabid RomneyBot who bad mouthed Trump...
This is not happening. No way he does this.
isn’t she a nevertrumper
Allen West would be a good choice.
More garbage from the Washington Post.
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