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A Trump campaign aide who argues that Democrats committed ethnic cleansing in a plot to liquidate the white working class. A former reality show contestant whose study of societal collapse inspired him to invent a bow-and-arrow-cum-survivalist multi-tool. A pair of healthcare industry lobbyists. A lobbyist for defense contractors. An evangelist and lobbyist for Palantir, the Silicon Valley company with close ties to intelligence agencies. And a New Hampshire Trump supporter who has only recently graduated from high school.
These are some of the people the Trump administration has hired for positions across the federal government, according to documents received by ProPublica through public-records requests. Unlike appointees exposed to the scrutiny of the Senate, members of these so-called beachhead teams have operated largely in the shadows, with the White House declining to publicly reveal their identities.
The list we obtained includes obscure campaign staffers, contributors to Breitbart and others who have embraced conspiracy theories, as well as dozens of Washington insiders who could be reasonably characterized as part of the swamp Trump pledged to drain.
The list is striking for how many former lobbyists it contains: We found at least 36, spanning industries from health insurance and pharmaceuticals to construction, energy and finance. Many of them lobbied in the same areas that are regulated by the agencies they have now joined.
https://www.propublica.org/article/meet-hundreds-of-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1489008101
Here's the list: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Over 100 are vacant right now. Talk about screwing up are country for decades.
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)that it can only be bragging.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)It'll be good when we finally manage to start clearing out the trash from our Government and elsewhere.
Kingofalldems
(38,468 posts)Hope you are well also and yes Government AND elsewhere. It got old a long time ago.