TEAM TRUMP
- DONALD TRUMP
- TRUMP CABINET & DEPARTMENTS
- TRUMP ADVISERS
- TRUMP FAMILY
- TRANSITION TEAM
- TRUMP CAMPAIGN 2016
- TRUMP CAMPAIGN 2020
- GOP LOBBYISTS
- INAUGURATION COMMITTEE-under ongoing criminal investigation
- TRUMP DONORS
- TRUMP ORGANIZATION
- TRUMP PROPERTIES
- MOSCOW IN MIAMI
- BRIGHTON BEACH
- TRUMP TENANTS
- MAFIA TIES
- TRUMP LAWSUITS
- RUSSIAGATE
- DIVERSION
- OBSTRUCTION
Donald Trump, President
THE CABINET OF THE PRESIDENT Page
Trump Appointees, unless otherwise noted
Mike Pence, Vice President
Mick Mulvaney, January 2, 2019, replaced John F. Kelly, White House Chief of Staff Secretary of Homeland Security, VA -Ret. USMC General replaced Reince Priebus
Team Trump, the U.S. Executive Branch
Executive departments
- Department of Defense: Patrick M. Shanahan, Boeing January 1, 2019- after James Mattis, Secretary of Defense, WA -Ret. USMC General & Commander quit
- National Security Agency: Paul M. Nakasone after May 4, 2018 Michael S. Rogers
- Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, KS -Fmr. Representative
- Defense Intelligence Agency: LTG Robert P. Ashley, Jr. since October 2017
- James Loy “Commandant of the US Coast Guard. Loy also was deputy secretary of DHS from 2003 to 2005 and was the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration before that.” CNN
- Department of State: Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, Former CEO ExxonMobil with $750 Billion oil deal on hold with Rosneft
- Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen, after October 12, 2017, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke, who was confirmed this spring as the deputy secretary CNN. Replaced John Kelly, who became Chief of Staff after Reince Priebus
- Katherine Gorka, Adviser to DHS Office of Policy, Trump Transition Team (DHS). Seb Gorka‘s wife. “Katherine] Gorka extensively criticized DHS for teaching employees — wrongly, in her view — that Islam is a religion of peace.” The Intercept Making at least $8,600/month. Islamophobia
- Thomas Homan, ICE “The acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has established himself as a favorite of Trump’s, accompanying him on Air Force One last week to speak at an event on Long Island before law enforcement on the administration’s anti-gang policy. Trump praised Homan at that event, saying he has “done an incredible job.” CNN Long Island police department responds to Trump: We don’t tolerate roughing up prisoners The Hill July 28, 2017
- Transportation Security Administration: David Pekoske
- Department of Justice: Jeff Sessions, Attorney General, Recused from the Russian Investigation, Rod Rosenstein, Deputy AG leading Russiagate
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Christopher Wray, FBI Director
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives: Thomas E. Brandon since 2015
- Drug Enforcement Administration: Robert W. Patterson, NY & NJ
- Department of Commerce: Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce, FL -Billionaire “King Of Bankruptcy”, Bank of Cyprus & Paradise Papers
- Federal Communications Commission: Ajit Pai
- Department of Education: Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education, MI – Libertarian MegaDonor with Mercers & Kochs wants to dismantle Federal School system and privatize via Charter Schools. DeVos’s brother is international covert Paramilitary “Blackwater” owner Erik Prince, and reportedly, her husband’s company Spectrum Health was practically the only other computer than Russian Alfa Bank to ping Trump Tower’s private server during the Campaign, while Russian hackers attacked social media, voter rolls and left malware on our voting machines. The Mercers own Bannon-controlled Cambridge Analytica, which analyzed data for targeted voter manipulation and anti-Clinton campaigns. Their home state of Michigan is also one of those in question in the ongoing election investigations. The Kochs and Mercers now have the Federal school system under their control.
- Candice Jackson, Civil Rights Division “wrote a book titled “Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.” During the 2016 presidential campaign, she worked behind the scenes with Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant, to bring the women who say they were victimized by the Clintons to a presidential debate.” Politico
- Department of the Treasury : Steve Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, Goldman Sachs partner, Film Investor
- Internal Revenue Service: John A. Koskinen since 2013
- Department of Agriculture: Sonny Perdue, Secretary of Agriculture, GA
- Department of Energy: Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy, TX
- Department of Labor: Alex Acosta, Secretary of Labor, FL, US Atty in S. Florida, nom. by Don McGahn
- Department of Transportation: Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation, KY
- Department of the Interior: Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior, MT -Former Navy Seal and Geologist
- Department of Health and Human Services: Alex Azar, January 2018 Tom Price, RESIGNED Secretary of Health and Human Services, GA
- Department of Veterans Affairs: David Shulkin, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, PA -Fmr. Under Secretary
- Department of Housing and Urban Development: Ben Carson, Secretary of HUD, FL –
- Lynne Patton: “The person President Trump tapped this summer to oversee one of the largest regions under the Department of Housing & Urban Development is a longtime Trump family employee with no experience in housing, according to the one-page résumé Lynne Patton submitted as part of the transition. Patton began working for Trump’s son Eric in 2009 as the vice president of his foundation and as his primary aide. She oversaw all aspects of his business, charity and personal obligations. That included his home and spousal responsibilities as well as coordinating events.” Washington Post
- Lynne Patton: “The person President Trump tapped this summer to oversee one of the largest regions under the Department of Housing & Urban Development is a longtime Trump family employee with no experience in housing, according to the one-page résumé Lynne Patton submitted as part of the transition. Patton began working for Trump’s son Eric in 2009 as the vice president of his foundation and as his primary aide. She oversaw all aspects of his business, charity and personal obligations. That included his home and spousal responsibilities as well as coordinating events.” Washington Post
Cabinet-level offices
- Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, OK -Fmr. Attorney General (95% staff laid off)
- Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, SC -Fmr. Representative
- U.S. Mission to the United Nations Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations, SC -Fmr. Governor, Fmr. Critic of Trump
- Council of Economic Advisors Kevin Hassett– American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Scholar, pro-immigration
- Small Business Administration Linda McMahon, Administrator of the Small Business Administration, CT- Billionaire WWE
Federally appointed offices
- Federal Reserve System: Janet Yellen
- U.S. Postmaster General: Megan J. Brennan since 2014
- Congressional Budget Office: Keith Hall, appointed by Speaker of the House John Boehner in 2015
- Federal Election Commission: Steven T. Walther Chair of 5 Commissioners
- Office of Government Ethics : David J. Apol is Acting Director as of July 20, 2017, when Walter Shaub resigned
CABINET-LEVEL OFFICIALS
Robert Lighthizer, Trade Representative, FL
THE ADVISERS
H.R. McMaster, National Security Adviser
Dan Coats, Director of National Intelligence, IN -Fmr. Senator
Stephen Miller, Sr. White House Policy Adviser, 31, Jeff Sessions’s Communications Director, American Nationalist, Anti-Feminist Became famous for defending the Duke University Lacrosse Team Rapists and one of the first Alt-Right voices on MSM
Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Adviser, Kushner’s close associate.
Sam Clovis, Nomination Withdrawn after Russiagate testimony, Campaign Co-Chair who may have introduced Carter Page and current White House Adviser for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Daily Caller about Clovis
Sebastian “Seb” Gorka, FIRED after McMaster joined, National Security Aide, Deputy Assistant to Trump and on the Strategic Initiatives Group with Bannon & Kushner, Breitbart National Security Editor while working on Trump Campaign White Nationalist from Hungary, Identifies himself with their KKK-like organization.
Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Steps Down As Special Advisor To President Trump
THE STAFF
Sarah Huckabee Sanders,White House Press Secretary,Formerly Sean Spicer & Anthony Scaramucci
Christopher Liddell, Assistant to the President, in Kushner’s White House Office of American Innovation- CFO of Microsoft, International Paper, WME-IMG and General Motors. Shares an office with Reed Cordish.
Reed Cordish, Assistant to the President for Intragovernmental and Technology Initiatives at the White House A former Baltimore real estate developer, Friend of Kushner and in his White House Office of American Innovation. Pushing Foxconn deal in Koch stronghold WI costing estimated $230,700 per $53,000 average job.
Matt Lira, a veteran Capitol Hill staffer in Kushner’s White House Office of American Innovation
Julia Hahn, at 25 is Special Assistant to Trump, Breitbart News Writer. White Nationalist from Beverly Hills.
Hope Hicks, Communications Director August 16, 2017-, and Personal Assistant to Trump
Mercedes Schlapp, Lobbyist Cove Strategies, White House Strategic Communications Adviser
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES GROUP
The SIG answers to Reince Priebus (Resigned). Steve Bannon (Fired) and Jared Kushner created it, “run by assistant to the president Christopher Liddell, and includes deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka (Fired), who has worked closely with Bannon while writing for Breitbart, the website he used to run.” The Daily Beast
OTHER GOVERNMENT COUNCILS
There are so many offices they can’t all be tracked on this site…Here are the ones making headlines.
“Ignoring your hateful rhetoric would have made us complicit in your words and actions,” they wrote in a letter to Trump. “We took a patriotic oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”
They added, “Supremacy, discrimination, and vitriol are not American values. Your values are not American values. We must be better than this. We are better than this. If this is not clear to you, then we call on you to resign your office, too.” Signed by Kal Penn, Paula Boggs, Chuck Close, Richard Cohen, Fred Goldring, Howard L. Gottlieb, Vicki Kennedy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anne Luzzatto, Thom Mayne, Eric Ortner, Ken Solomon, Caroline Taylor, Jill Cooper Udall, Andrew Weinstein, George Wolfe and John Lloyd Young
THE TRUMP FAMILY
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner
THE LOYALISTS
Roger Stone, Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly Lobbyist and Political Strategist, under Investigation
Paul Manafort, Former Campaign Manager Under Investigation
Thomas Barrack Trump’s best friend for decades who introduced him to Paul Manafort and whose PAC raised $22.7 million
“Boris Epshteyn, a Trump surrogate who frequently appears on television and describes himself as a senior adviser to the campaign. The Russia-born investment banker and attorney moderated a panel at an October 2013 conference in New York City called “Invest in Moscow!”
“Howard Lorber, a friend of Trump’s and a major donor to his campaign, has significant investments in Russia, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.”
THE LAWYERS
Michael Cohen, Criminally charged as Trump’s personal attorney for arranging hush money payments to Stormy Daniels in order to influence the 2016 presidential election. Hired Stephen Ryan to defend him in Russian investigation.
Marc Kasowitz, special counsel Robert Mueller is examining the conflicts of interest generated by Deutsche Bank and Sberbank involvement in the Russian investigation in which Kasowitz is representing Trump. Kasowitz was Trump’s business attorney for 15 years and currently in Russian inquiry regarding the Kushner purchase of the NY Times building and subsequent $285m loan from Deutsche Bank, under investigation. Also represented Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank.
Jay Sekulow, Under Investigation by Attorneys General Eric Schneiderman, NY and Josh Stein, NC. Chief Counsel for ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice) and CASE (Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism), which he has used for collecting religious donations in a predatory fashion and paying his family over $60 million from the proceeds. He created CASE after his 1987 bankruptcy caused by investors suing him for securities violations related to creating tax shelters and financial deals for the renovation of historic buildings in Atlanta. The Guardian
Sheri Dillon of the International and Moscow Award-Winning Law Firm Morgan Lewis, is representing Trump in his tax audit.
TRANSITION TEAM
Plans for the Transition began in April 2016 when then Senior Advisor (Paul) Manafort joined campaign manager Corey Lewandowski in the effort. Jared Kushner was announced on May 6. NY Times CNN Chris Christie was announced as Transition Team leader on May 9, 2016. NBC In August, “William F. Hagerty, a former member of Mitt Romney’s transition team, was named director of appointments while John Rader, a senior aide to United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair Bob Corker, was retained in the position of deputy director of appointments” Washington Post. Wikipedia
TRUMP CAMPAIGN 2016
Campaign Managers: 1.Corey Lewandowski 2.Paul Manafort 3.Kellyanne Conway
Donald Trump Jr.Major fundraiser, under criminal investigation for inaugural funds.
Barry Bennett
Carter Page, Under Investigation for Russian interference with the election, briefly an adviser to Campaign as Foreign Policy Adviser
TRUMP CAMPAIGN 2020
Everyone in the White House is Leaking; How to tell Who is Leaking What in the Trump Administration Slate
THE INFLUENCERS: Explore the offshore connections of 13 Trump advisers, donors and cabinet members ICIJ.org
Kris Kobach, Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity’s vice chairman, Kansas Secretary of State, AZ’s controversial immigration law CNN
Tom Cotton “The Arkansas senator is a national security hawk, a war veteran and has authored a bill favored by immigration restriction groups to cut back on non-skills-based immigration to the US. The White House has been working with Cotton and his co-author on the bill for possible re-introduction.” CNN
