Trump introduces 5 figures of his advisory team
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump has finally unveiled the list of his foreign policy and national security advisers.
After months of refusal, the billionaire real estate mogul named five people in a Monday meeting with The Washington Post’s editorial board.
Trump is hiring a professor at the National Defense University, Walid Phares, as “a counter-terrorism expert.”
Carter Page, an energy industry executive and former investment banker, also appeared on the list to work in the national security advisory committee.
Another one was the director of the London Center of International Law Practice, George Papadopoulos, who will work as “an oil and energy consultant,” Trump said.
Trump further named “the honorable Joe Schmitz,” a former Pentagon inspector general currently running a consulting firm.
Keith Kellogg, a former lieutenant general in the US Army who now works with an IT security consultant in Virginia, was the final name on his list.
The five are members of an advisory team led by Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions, the only adviser confirmed before the new list was unveiled.
“And I have quite a few more… but that’s a group of some of the people that we are dealing with,” Trump said. “We have many other people in different aspects of what we do… but that’s pretty representative group.”
During a telephone interview on MSNBC last week, the Republican contender said “my primary consultant is myself.”
"I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain, and I've said a lot of things," Trump said.
The newly introduced figures are “likely to calm some nerves among GOP officials,” according to the Hill, particularly because some “appear to be veterans of the upper reaches of former Republican administrations, as is common for leading presidential contenders.”
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