Written under the leadership of Trump Jr…. ‘Whitelist’ too
Anti-Trump personnel likely to be ruled out… “We will stop bad people”
It has been reported that the transition committee for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has begun drawing up a so-called ‘blacklist’ in preparation for his re-entry to the White House.
On the 16th (local time), Politico, citing a former Trump administration official, reported that candidate Trump’s transition team is preparing a list of people to exclude from the second administration.
Sources said the transition team included in the exclusion list those who were associated with the conservative Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” officials who resigned in protest against candidate Trump in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and people perceived as disloyal. .
It has been reported that candidate Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is leading the list-making process as the honorary transition chairman. It is said that along with the blacklist, work on a ‘whitelist’, which is a list of people scheduled to be appointed to the administration, is also in progress.
Previously, Howard Lutnick, co-chairman of Trump’s transition committee, said in a recent interview with the New York Post that he would not consider personnel associated with ‘Project 2025’ to participate in the next administration.
In an interview with the Financial Times, he also mentioned that he would look at loyalty when nominating officials for Trump’s second term. Trump Jr. also recently told the Wall Street Journal that the transition team’s main goal is “to prevent bad actors from coming in.”
Candidate Trump and his associates have long emphasized loyalty. Candidate Trump experienced difficulties during his time as president, such as sensitive information being leaked and officials resigning.
Accordingly, this is interpreted as an intention to exclude anti-Trump personnel if a second administration takes office. It is expected that personnel will be completely different from the first period in various positions, from high-ranking aides to low-ranking officials.
However, a person who participated in candidate Trump’s transition team in 2016 dismissed it as the transition team’s standard task to keep blacklists and whitelists.
Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Cheng declined to comment explicitly on this, but said in a statement, “We will select the best people for our Cabinet to undo all the damage Kamala Harris has done to our country.”
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