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Trump’s White House circle takes shape amid fears over extremist appointments
The Guardian ^ | Nov 10, 2024 | Martin Pengelly

Posted on 11/10/2024 5:48:18 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Donald Trump’s second administration has begun to take shape amid fears over extremist appointments and how far right the US will go while Republicans control the White House and probably both chambers of Congress.

The range of names being put forward varies from members of Trump’s inner circle to the world’s richest man, tech mogul Elon Musk. Alongside plutocrats and technocrats are hardline ideologues on immigration and foreign policy and the controversial figure of Robert F Kennedy Jr, a leading vaccine conspiracy theorist.

On Thursday, Trump made his first appointment, naming Susie Wiles, a co-campaign chair, White House chief of staff. Hailing Wiles, 67, as “tough, smart, innovative … universally admired and respected”, Trump reveled in naming “the first-ever female chief of staff in United States history”.

The daughter of an NFL legend, Pat Summerall, Wiles has worked on Republican campaigns since the days of Ronald Reagan. But she faces a thankless task. Chief of staff is a hugely demanding role, both gatekeeper and adviser. ......

Other figures from the first administration are linked to roles in the second. Many have links to Project 2025, a policy planning effort co-ordinated by the hard-right Heritage Foundation that produced the Mandate for Leadership, a 900-page compendium of extreme proposals.....

Rather less wealthy figures likely to hold influence as advisers if not cabinet appointees include Stephen Miller, the far-right immigration hawk; Kash Patel, who ended the first Trump term at the Pentagon; and Johnny McEntee, who went from “body man” to purge-planner in the first Trump White House.

For secretary of defense, Trump is believed to be considering Christopher Miller, the former special forces officer and Project 2025 author whose actions (or lack of them) on January 6 were scrutinized by the investigating House committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cabinet; christophermiller; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; guardian; guardianextremist; heritagefoundation; j6; martinpengelly; marxistextremist; project2025; trump; trumpadministration; trumpcabinet
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Looks like some winning going on. But the fear mongering of Project 2025 continues.
1 posted on 11/10/2024 5:48:18 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Hey Guardian

“This is what Democracy looks like”.


2 posted on 11/10/2024 5:51:24 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

As the Babylon Bee pointed out, once the liberal garbage Nazi’s tone down the rhetoric, things will get better in political discourse.


3 posted on 11/10/2024 5:51:40 AM PST by Bernard ("Liberal Intellectual Incest". Goes along with employment in the Poverty-Industrial Complex.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Martin Pengelly might want to check his adult diaper.

Sounds like it might be full...


4 posted on 11/10/2024 5:52:01 AM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Bernard
liberal garbage Nazi’s

OOPS. Deplorable garbage Nazi’s

5 posted on 11/10/2024 5:52:33 AM PST by Bernard ("Liberal Intellectual Incest". Goes along with employment in the Poverty-Industrial Complex.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Concerns about Trump appointments being “extreme”.
How laughable.
Hasn’t anyone ever looked at the circus side show freaks that make up the former Biden-Harris administration or the Democrat party in general?


6 posted on 11/10/2024 5:53:07 AM PST by sjmjax
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The UK’s Deep State is still wigging out...

Yay!


7 posted on 11/10/2024 5:53:17 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: kiryandil

The Guardian is the newsprint version of Democratic Underground.

It is extreme left, and not to be taken seriously.


8 posted on 11/10/2024 5:53:54 AM PST by TheConservator (To bar Trump from the presidency, libtards are happy to trash 235 years of the rule of law)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Elections have CONSEQUENCES! In this case, great ones!


9 posted on 11/10/2024 5:55:07 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: TheConservator

I’d take the UK’s Deep State very seriously.

Do you know where Tommy Robinson is right now.. ?


10 posted on 11/10/2024 5:55:53 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Defund The Guardian....
11 posted on 11/10/2024 5:57:13 AM PST by Paladin2
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“extremist appointments”

That’s right and there’s not a DAMNED THING you can do about it.


12 posted on 11/10/2024 5:57:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“Extremist appointment” like trans folk, Trump supporter hating FEMA officials, and criminal allowing border “security”
officials.

However i CAN see how they would see Trump’s appointees as extremists, doubt any of them will have pronouns other than MR., MRS., or Miss.


13 posted on 11/10/2024 5:57:19 AM PST by blitz128
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

extremist
nazi
hitler
fascist
garbage

Yeah, keep doing that same thing and expect for dems to ever win again.

The majority of people are done with it.


14 posted on 11/10/2024 5:58:45 AM PST by Pollard
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To: TheConservator

aka “The Grauniad”, for their many uncorrected typos. :)


15 posted on 11/10/2024 6:02:00 AM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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amid fears over extremist appointments and how far right the US ...

The hate goes on. I stopped reading at this point.

16 posted on 11/10/2024 6:07:09 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Bernard
once the liberal garbage Nazi’s tone down the rhetoric, things will get better in political discourse.

In what millennium do you expect that to happen?

17 posted on 11/10/2024 6:09:31 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: libertylover

Maybe The Guardian should just call them garbage appointments.


18 posted on 11/10/2024 6:10:59 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: TheConservator

...And from a foreign country we smashed once ;-)


19 posted on 11/10/2024 6:13:59 AM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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“Concerns about Trump appointments being “extreme”.
How laughable.”

I don’t think Rachael Levine has to worry about being topped.


20 posted on 11/10/2024 6:15:10 AM PST by BobL
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