Posted on 11/30/2016 10:15:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
President-elect Donald Trump is down to his final four candidates in what has been a drama-filled search for his secretary of state.
Republican National Committee communications director Sean Spicer told reporters during a Wednesday morning press call that Trump was down to four candidates for the administration post. Spicer said no additional appointments are expected this week.
On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that the search was down to five candidates: 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chair Bob Corker, former CIA Director David Petraeus, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and retired Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly. Trump is meeting with Kelly on Wednesday.
It's not clear which of the four is out of the running. Romney, Corker, and Petraeus all met recently with Trump to discuss the post. Giuliani, an early favorite, has seemingly fallen out of favor over the past few weeks.
After a high-profile dinner with Trump last night, Romney told reporters he has "increasing hope" the president-elect can lead the US to a "better future."
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Like this one as the best of the bunch
Exactly.
Trump campaigned strongly on a defensive, non-interventionist foreign policy platform that stresses reasonable (!) cooperation with countries that hitherto were not on the best terms with us. Trump specifically criticized the disatrous perpetual-war adventurism and ruinious nation building of the Bush/Clinton years.
Bolton is THE posterboy for the failed neocon Bushite adventurism. He talks tough... but he is toxic and unsuited for Trumps agenda, as laid out during the campaign.
During the battle to crush the Iraqi insurgency, Gen. Kelly took command of the newly formed Task Force Tripoli and drove it north from Baghdad into Samarra and Tikrit.
During the initial assault on Baghdad, Kelly was asked by a reporter of the Los Angeles Times if (considering the size of the Iraqi Army and the vast supplies of tanks, artillery and chemical weapons available to Saddam’s forces) he would ever consider defeat.
Kelly’s archetypal response was, “Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Baghdad ain’t shit.”
[I could see this face staring down the Chinese, or Iranians during REnegotiations.]
The Iranians will be sh-tting in their thwabs with this guy....
I like him!!
I don’t want any of the final four.
I can’t think of any reason why VP-Elect Pence would meet with Condi Rice today (according to insider Jack Posobiec) unless Pence was sounding her out about being SoS again. I didn’t think Condi wanted anything to do with a Trump administration from what she said pre-election but maybe they can lure her back.
What do y’all think about Condi as the 5th candidate? She obviously could do anything without Trump approval, even as a neo-con.
“She obviously could do anything without Trump approval, even as a neo-con.”
Sorry, meant she obviously could NOT do anything as an SoS without Trump approval, IF she was in the running...
Mitt Romney - I would think far less of President Trump if he picked Mitt.
Bob Corker - I would think less of President Trump if he picked Corker.
David Petraeus - I would think far less of President Trump if he picked Mitt.
Rudy Giuliani, - I’d rather see him elsewhere, but completely acceptable for State.
John Kelly - completely acceptable for State.
Gee. A motley crew.
I think Rudy. But admit I don’t know much about Kelly.
Corker? Nope. Helped Iran get nukes.
Mitt? Nope. He actively campaigned against the choice of the people.
Sure hope he gets the SoS job.
John Kelly is a fine man and would be a wonderful Secretary of State! Kelly is real and knows, first hand, the Islamic threat to this country.
Trump could not possibly pick a better man!
One of DJT’s team on Fox this AM slipped and said it down to three
Three of those are unacceptable for me. The General and Rudy are ok.
I would NOT prefer Condi for the job again. I did like her during Bush, but time has revealed her true inclinations, which don’t read well to me. She’s like a female version of Powell.
I used to like her back in the day too. Not sure I want her back either. Maybe it’s a moot point anyway but I thought she’d be staying far away from the newly forming Trump admin and she isn’t. Very odd.
Kelly #1 and Romney somewhere below 4th out of the 4.
He’s a globalist, he’s NOT a globalist,... hes a neocon, he’s the opposite of the....
All I know is that when I listen to John Bolton on the radio he makes more common sense with plain and direct talk than I have heard in decades.
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Bolton is solid, pro America as they come.
Thats why the MSM hate him, just like they hate Cruz. He would end the global BS permanently, given the chance.
where do they fall on the second amendment.
Petreaus made the gun control group so he is so so.
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>> “She’s like a female version of Powell.” <<
With more brain, and thus more dangerous.
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