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No infighting in transition team: Donald Trump

Updated on: 17 November,2016 08:57 AM IST  | 
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Donald Trump says ‘organised process’ taking place, as team head Pence submits necessary paperwork

No infighting in transition team: Donald Trump

Head of the transition team Vice President-elect Mike Pence seen leaving Trump Tower. Pic/AFP
Head of the transition team Vice President-elect Mike Pence seen leaving Trump Tower. Pic/AFP


Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump yesterday refuted reports of infighting among advisers in his transition team over key Cabinet appointments, saying an organised process is taking place to select the finalists.


“Very organised process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions. I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!” Trump said in a tweet.


Trump’s tweet came as media reported that differences have come up within his camp on finalising his Cabinet.

A week after Trump (70) won in a historic election, the President-elect is yet to name a member of his Cabinet. So far, he has named Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus as his chief of staff and his campaign CEO Stephen Bannon as chief strategist.

The CNN reported that Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser Jared Kushner is at the centre of the “infighting” inside his transition team.

Trump has already replaced New Jersey governor Chris Christie with vice-president-elect Mike Pence as head of the transition team. Christie was New Jersey attorney general when Kushner’s father was tried and jailed in the state for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering in 2004.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Pence yesterday ordered removal of all lobbyists from the transition team.

Ex-Congressman Mike Rogers, who was considered for the post of CIA director, was among those ousted from the presidential transition team’s national security unit.

Rogers said he parted ways with Trump’s transition team, removing an establishment national security voice from the planning process of the next president’s cabinet.

Pence on Tuesday provided to the White House the necessary paperwork that would facilitate smooth transition. The Trump transition team must now provide the Obama administration with the “names of individuals they have authorised to represent the transition effort across the government,” White House spokesperson Brandi Hoffine said. Agencies

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