Donald Trump Jr says pushback against Cabinet picks proves they are the disrupters voters wanted
Donald Trump Jr said on Sunday that any pushback from the Washington establishment around his father's unconventional choices for Cabinet proves they are just the kind of disruptors that voters are demanding. The younger Trump insisted the team now around the president-elect knows how to build out an administration, unlike when his father first took office.
«The reality this time is, we actually know what we're doing. We actually know who the good guys and the bad guys are,» he told Fox News Channel's «Sunday Morning Futures». «And it's about surrounding my father with people who are both competent and loyal. They will deliver on his promises. They will deliver on his message. They are not people who think they know better, as unelected bureaucrats.»
After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, he stocked his early administration with choices from traditional Republican and business circles, tapping figures such as former Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who was his first as secretary of state.
Today, Trump is valuing personal allegiance above political experience.
That has translated into selections such as former Florida Rep Matt Gaetz, who faced a House ethics investigation, as attorney general, anti-vaccine activist Robert F Kennedy Jr as head of the Department of Health and Human Services and Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic lawmaker who has in the past publicly expressed sympathy to Russian causes, as director of US intelligence services.
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