In your view, current White House staffing is based mostly on meritocracy or nepotism/personal friendships/personal loyalty etc?
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Exclusive: FBI counterintel investigating Ivanka Trump business deal
By Sara Murray, Shimon Prokupecz and Kara Scannell, CNN
Thu March 1, 2018
(CNN)US counterintelligence officials are scrutinizing one of Ivanka Trump's international business deals, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/01/polit...ion/index.html
Jared Kushner Met With Two Executives at the White House, Then Their Companies Loaned Him $500 Million. Coincidence?
By Elliot Hannon
Feb 28, 2018
Walking conflict of interest Jared Kushner intermingled his public and private personas while camped out in the West Wing, according to a New York Times report Wednesday that appeared to show Trump’s son-in-law using his position in the White House to preserve his real estate business interests. The Times reported two instances over the past year where Kushner met with executives from financial companies at the White House and then later secured hundreds of millions of dollars in loans from those companies.
Kushner met with Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management who was also advising the Trump administration on infrastructure, during Harris’ regular visits to the White House during the early days of the Trump administration. Then, last November, Apollo lent Kushner’s family real estate firm $184 million to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper. “Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world’s largest private equity firms,” the Times notes, “the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm, securities filings show.” In a second instance, Kushner got an even larger loan of $325 million from Citigroup in the spring of 2017, just months after Donald Trump took office. The money to finance office buildings in Brooklyn came shortly after Citigroup CEO Michael L. Corbat met with Kushner to discuss financial and trade policy at the White House.
The meetings and subsequent business dealings with the financial companies raise serious ethical questions about Kushner, particularly given both had something to gain from the relationship.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...ater-than.html
Omarosa says she tried to be 'the voice of reason' in Trump White House
Seattle Times 10h ago
President Trump Wants His Personal Pilot to Run the FAA Because America is a Meritocracy
Monday 7:00am
The politics website Axios reports that the short list includes names like Missouri Congressman Sam Graves and current acting FAA Administrator Dan Elwell. But the name that’s raising eyebrows is John Dunkin, President Trump’s personal pilot since 1989. Dunkin has reportedly already been interviewed for the position.
“He’s on the list because he’s the president’s pilot, but if he gets the job it won’t be because he’s the president’s pilot,” an anonymous source from the Trump regime told Axios.
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