Donald Trump/pre-presidency

Administration

• Mike Pence, Vice President
• Reince Priebus
• Steve Bannon
• Myron Ebell (climate denier)
• Anthony Scaramucci, key advisor (hedge-fund manager)
• Frank Gaffney, transition team (right-wing conspiracy theorist)
• Davis Malpass, responsible for shaping Treasury Department under Trump (chief economist at Bear Stearns for 6 years; now a Wall Street advisor; 9 months before 2008 crash, claimed that housing and debt markets are not important for the economy or for job creation)
• Paul Atkins, will help Trump appoint personnel to Independent Financial Agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Reserve (was SEC Commissioner during 2008 crash; strongly opposed Wall Street accountability)
• Steve Mnuchin, rumored to be in the running for Treasury Secretary (hedge fund CEO, former Goldman Sachs Vice President, profited off of mortgage foreclosures and bank failure)
• Lewis Eisenberg. floated as potential pick for Secretary of Commerce (currently the chief of private equity at Granite Capital International Group, worked as a Goldman Sachs partner for over two decades until being forced to resign following a sexual harassment complaint)
• Michael Torrey, advising Trump's team on personnel at the Department of Agriculture (veteran food and agriculture lobbyist for companies which could directly benefit from Department of Agriculture policies designed with their interests in mind)
• Jeff Eisenach, advising Trump's team on personnel decisions at the Federal Communications Commission (paid consultant for Verizon and former lobbyist who has called for deregulation of the telecommunications industry)
• Michael Korbey, heading Trump's transition team for the Social Security Administration. (former lobbyist who has spent much of his career advocating for cutting and privatizing the [Social Security] program)
• Mike McKenna, running the transition for the Department of Energy (a "hired gun" and "well-connected energy lobbyist with ties to the industry-backed American Energy Alliance and Institute for Energy Research," whose clients include the Koch Companies and the Southern Company)
• David Bernhardt, overseeing the Department for the Interior for Trump's transition team (lobbyist at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Sheck, representing federal contractors, the Rosemont Copper Company, and Freeport LNG Expansion, a company that designs and builds natural gas pipelines)
• Michael Flynn, vice chair of the Trump transition, reportedly in line for a top national security post in the new administration (Retired Lt. General)
• Don McGahn, White House counsel (corruption personified)
• KT McFarland, deputy national security adviser
• Carl Icahn, special advisor ("hedge fund titan")

(A major source for the above is Elizabeth Warren's letter, which needs to be mined more thoroughly for primary sources. I ran out of time to copy and reformat its personnel list.)

Links

• 2016-12-24 Jason Miller quits as newly named White House communications director after Trump staffer hints at sex scandal (via)
• 2016-12-22 Trump team asked State Department for info on women’s issues programs, sparking fears of another witch hunt (via)
• 2016-12-17 Donald Trump faces Senate backlash over 'cabinet of billionaires' (via)
  • Trump invokes the fairness fallacy: "“... I want people that made a fortune. Because now they are negotiating for you, OK? It’s no different than a great baseball player or a great golfer.” [...] For Trump, those figures are simply a confirmation of competence: in Trumpian politics, the richer you are, the better you must be at cutting a deal." Presumably on behalf of all citizens. Yeah, right.
• 2016-12-12
  • Trump tweets that the F-35's cost is 'out of control' – and now the stock of the company that makes it is diving (via)
  • Trump Isolates Himself with C.I.A. Attack
• 2016-12-03 Rodrigo Duterte Says Donald Trump Endorses His Violent Antidrug Campaign
  • More about that campaign here: 2016-12-07 ‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’ (via)
• 2016-11-22
  • Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on 'politicized science'
    • Admiral Lady Paula says "So, first you politicise climate science by deliberately supporting/funding the non-concensus position for perceived personal gain, then you threaten to de-fund it because it is politicised. I hope this offends you as much as it offends me."
    • Yonatan Zunger adds some historical context, noting that Trump seems to be a willing supporter of the Republican Party's Lysenkoism
  • In shift, Trump says humans may be causing global warming - so, which is it?
• 2016-11-21 Donald Trump’s media summit was a 'f---ing firing squad' (found)
• 2016-11-19 Read 'em and weep: A list of the current contenders for key jobs in Trump administration
• 2016-11-18 For foreign diplomats, Trump hotel is place to be (via): Trump will be profiting hugely from the inauguration. He has jacked up the prices and imposed a 5-day minimum stay.
• 2016-11-17 And Now We're Talking About Internment Camps? (via)
• 2016-11-16
  • Trump Team Is Mulling Muslim Registry And Planning Border Wall, Reported Adviser Says (via)
  • Trump's Top Environmental Adviser Says Pesticides Aren't Bad for You (via)
  • Donald Trump Taps Radical Conspiracy Theorist Frank Gaffney For Transition Team (via)
• 2016-11-15
  • GOP and Trump put deficit on back burner (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JohnPoteet/posts/9d8FJPHGPZQ via]) "For eight years, Republicans hammered President Barack Obama for exploding the national debt. But now a GOP-led spending spree is coming..."
  • Donald Trump’s Transition Team, Or Lack Thereof, Is Causing Real Panic (via)
• 2016-11-14
  • China threatens to cut sales of iPhones and US cars if 'naive' Trump pursues trade war (Slashdot)
  • Trump seeks top-secret security clearances for his kids (via)
  • Donald Trump Leaning Toward Extreme Militant John Bolton As Secretary Of State (via)
• 2016-11-13
  • RNC Chair Reince Priebus Is Named Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff (via)
  • Paul Ryan: Access to birth control for women is ‘nitty-gritty detail’ not worth talking about (via)
• 2016-11-12
  • Trump Says He May Keep Parts of Obama Health Care Act
  • Shooting at anti-Trump protest in Portland, police looking for ‘African-American male’ (PHOTOS) (via)
  • Trump’s pledge to separate his business from the presidency lasted two days (via)
• 2016-11-11
  • Automakers ask Trump not to make them produce electric cars in first lobbying effort since election (via)
  • Paul Ryan just announced his plans to phase out Medicare with privatization using vouchers (via)
  • Donald Trump, in Exclusive Interview, Tells WSJ He Is Willing to Keep Parts of Obama Health Law (via)
    • Donald Trump Says He May Keep Parts of Obama Health Care Act (via)
  • Trump’s Real Immigration Policy (via) "My prediction is that Trump will increase the scale and scope of immigration enforcement, rescind President Obama's executive actions or at a minimum not allow Dreamers renew their status, massively curtail or end the refugee program, and try to convince Congress to cut legal immigration. I’ve been wrong about Trump in the past and I hope I’m wrong here too."
  • Paul Ryan just announced his plans to phase out Medicare with privatization using vouchers (via)
• 2016-11-10
  • The architect of the most racist law in modern American history has been named to Trump's team (via)
  • Trump Team Promises To 'Dismantle' Dodd-Frank Bank Regulations (via)
• 2016-11-09 Even the Kremlin Might Be Shocked at President-Elect Donald Trump (via)
• 2016-09-26 Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition (via)

Footnotes

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