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Report: Trump cabinet, top administration candidates include wealth of anti-LGBTQ Palin, Bondi, Carson, Huckabee

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November 10, 2016
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    Donald Trump repeatedly has said he hires only “the best people,” but time and time again that has proven to be false. On Tuesday, for example, the Trump campaign went to court to challenge ballots in four heavily-Hispanic Nevada polling locations. Instead of hiring an attorney specializing in election law, Trump hired ”a construction and commercial insurance lawyer and construction and family law attorney.” Trump lost. Bigly.

    a list of 41 names the president-elect is considering for Cabinet and top-level administration positions clearly reflects his desire to reward supporters rather than hire experts qualified for the jobs.

    Buzzfeed obtained the list, noting that “political appointments, cabinet-level positions typically require some level of expertise in the issues they cover. Most of the candidates either have at least nominal experience in their issue areas.”

    For example, Sarah Palin is on the list as a possible Secretary of the Interior. Palin’s political career has been focused not on protecting the environment or state and federal lands, but getting oil and gas out of the ground.

    Mike Huckabee is listed as a candidate for Secretary of Commerce, despite having never run a business or negotiated trade deals.

    As a possible Secretary of Education, Ben Carson is one of only two candidates. Carson was the head of pediatric neurosurgery at a top teaching hospital, but even that doesn’t give him sufficient experience to be in charge of the nation’s Dept. of Education. Carson is also listed as a candidate to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Again, not a position he is qualified to hold.

    Others might claim to have sufficient experience, which is easily debatable, but, like Trump and his top allies and surrogates, have questionable if not disgusting pasts.

    For Secretary of Agriculture, Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller, who on November 1 called Hillary Clinton a “c*nt” via Twitter. He first claimed his account was hacked, then blamed a staffer.

    Via Buzzfeed:

    List of Potential Trump Cabinet Nominees:

    Attorney General:

    Gov. Chris Christie

    Attorney General Pam Bondi

    Sen. Jeff Sessions

    Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani

    Secretary of Commerce:

    Christie

    Former Nucor CEO Dan DiMicco

    Businessman Lew Eisenberg

    Former Gov. Mike Huckabee

    Sen. David Purdue

    Former Sen. Jim Talent

    Agriculture Secretary:

    Gov. Sam Brownback

    National Council of Farmer Cooperatives CEO Chuck Conner

    Gov. Dave Heineman

    Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller

    Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue

    Secretary of Education:

    Ben Carson

    Hoover Institution fellow William Evers

    Secretary of Energy:

    Venture Capitalist Robert Grady

    Businessman Harold Hamm

    Secretary of Health and Human Services:

    Former New Jersey state Sen. Rich Bagger

    Ben Carson

    Newt Gingrich

    Gov. Rick Scott

    Secretary of Homeland Security:

    Christie

    Sheriff David Clarke

    Secretary of the Interior:

    Gov. Jan Brewer

    Gov. Mary Fallin

    Grady

    Hamm

    Oil Executive Forrest Lucas

    Rep. Cynthia Lummis

    Former Gov. Sarah Palin

    Secretary of Defense:

    Former Gen. Mike Flynn

    Stephen Hadley

    Rep. Duncan Hunter Jr.

    Sessions

    Former Sen. Jim Talent

    Secretary of State:

    John Bolton

    Sen. Bob Corker

    Gingrich

    Treasury Secretary:

    Rep. Jeb Hensarling

    Businessman Carl Icahn

    Banker Steven Mnuchin

    Chief of Staff:

    Reince Priebus

    Director of Office of Management and Budget:

    Sessions

    Secretary of Labor:

    EEOC Commissioner Victoria Lipnic

    Veterans Affairs:

    Rep. Jeff Miller

    White House Counsel:

    Donald McGahn

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