Trump Family Join Transition Team

US President-elect Donald Trump has moved his children from his campaign to his transition team. His daughter Ivanka, sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and son-in-law Jared Kushner (Ivanka’s husband) will join Trumps executive committee that will help choose his cabinet and guide his early strategies. Vice President-elect Mike Pence will be heading the team, after taking over from Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey. The team also includes some of extremely wealthy advisers and donors who supported Trump’s campaign. According to Vox, Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of billionaire hedge fund magnate Roger Mercer, spent tens of millions beefing up both Trump and the Republican establishment. Steven Mnuchin, a Trump fundraiser during the campaign, is an old Wall Street hand who made it out of Goldman Sachs with over $40 million. And Peter Thiel is the famous PayPal founder and billionaire who sued Gawker into oblivion and has some unusual ideas about harvesting the blood of the young. Sputnik news reports: Trump’s administration will need to make thousands of political appointments in the coming weeks. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, retired Lieutenant-General Michael Flynn, Goldman Sachs veteran Steven Mnuchin, former Senator Kelly Ayotte, JP Morgan chief executive [...]

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