Welcome (back) to Trump’s world
Donald Trump has a choice: Implement his aggressive promises on the campaign trail, which run up against the guardrails of democracy, including green-lighting a vengeful Justice Department and creating a deportation force? Or will he exude the persona of a restrained politician who ignores his worst impulses, thrilled that his criminal cases are expected to wind down now that he’s elected, and simply focus on the populist policy ideas he ran on?
We’ll see. But his aides say Trump has a mandate based on the margin and scope of his victory. And he’s looking to ensure he has a loyal team in place to carry out his vision.
Trump’s transition team had silently reviewed thousands of names for jobs, “almost all recommendations from other Trump advisers, and a goal is to avoid disloyal picks who would want to subvert Trump’s agenda,” our colleagues Jacqueline Alemany, Josh Dawsey, Hannah Knowles, Marianne Levine and Perry Stein report.
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By: Leigh Ann Caldwell and Theodoric Meyer
Source: Washington Post
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