Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
by leakybit on Thursday November 10, 2016 @11:42PM
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This is the case with just about every politician, the campaign staff essential becomes part of the administration. Remember that he only has 8 weeks to fill hundreds of jobs in his cabinet.
Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
by Mathnerd314 on Friday November 11, 2016 @12:30AM
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My guess is that most of them will be "wildcards", people that have no political experience / ties whatsoever and were chosen because they were experts or at least moderately successful in their chosen field.
Thiel kind of fits that profile, ignoring his recent antics.
Re:Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
by Mathnerd314 on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:27AM
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The one I'm watching (and this guy: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/11/09/president...) is Peter Navarro. Presumably Trump is going to find 2 more people and make up a council, like Obama's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Economic_Advisers, but it's an interesting data point as to whether Navarro ends up as chairman.
"owes" man. In quotes because he doesn't have any fiscal or otherwise legal obligation to pay them back. If he largely surrounds himself with those few who supported him(opportunistically dare I say?) then it's a huge red flag in my book he isn't really going for the best advisors. I'd like to see at least a couple old detractors on the list..