President-elect Donald Trump held meetings with finalists for high-level Cabinet positions at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, over the weekend. Among those who were paraded in front of reporters were retired Marine General James Mattis, who is considered a contender for defense secretary, and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who are both considered to be finalists for the secretary of state position. Mattis is a former commander of United States Central Command. Giuliani was the architect of New York City’s stop-and-frisk program, which disproportionately targeted people of color and was later ruled unconstitutional. Giuliani has also called for measures to force Muslims on the government’s terrorism watch list to wear electronic tracking bracelets, and boasted about how he sent undercover NYPD officers to infiltrate mosques. He’s been a major supporter of Donald Trump. Romney, meanwhile, has been a critic of Trump. He, along with other Republican Party leaders, skipped the Republican National Convention this summer. This comes after Donald Trump announced he’d picked three far-right-wing white men for top-level positions on Friday. Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions was picked to be attorney general. Lt Gen. Michael Flynn is to be Trump’s national security adviser. And Kansas Congressmember Mike Pompeo is to be CIA director. We’ll have more on Trump’s Cabinet after headlines with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill.
Trump Meets with General Mattis, Giuliani & Romney over Weekend
HeadlineNov 21, 2016