Emperor Trump's First Cabinet Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

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          the first Trump-for-President trial balloon in 1987,
          listed among the Top Thirty Dirtbags of the One Percent in 2011
          numbskull Donald Trump almost ran again in 2011 for the 2012 race. (The domain www.impeachTrump.com was registered in January 2011; the minimum bid for auction in 2017 is $10,000.)

Director of National Intelligence {became Cabinet-level position in February 2017}
Director former Senator Dan Coats {{CONFIRMED 3/2017}}
nominated 5 January 2017; confirmed by the Senate March 15 on an 85-12 vote; sworn into office next day.

former acting Director Michael P. 'Mike' Dempsey - served from 20 January to 15 March 2017

retired Army LtGen James Robert Clapper, Jr., served 8/2010 to 1/2017
unanimously confirmed by the Senate on 5 August 2010; resigned effective 20 January 2017

Attorney General and the Department of Justice
William Barr, nominated 12/2018
acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker {{PROMOTED 11/2018}}
Whitaker lied about Academic All-American honors on his resume.

former U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama {{CONFIRMED 2/2017; RESIGNED 11/2018}}
Described as 'an enemy of civil rights and women's rights', as well as someone 'deemed too racist to be confirmed to a federal judgeship by a Republican Judiciary Committee'
in 1986; attempt by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to read an anti-Sessions letter from long ago was blocked (but read into record by Sen. Udall & others); Senate confirmed Sessions
on February 8th with a vote of 52-47; as promised (because of his work on the Trump campaign), Sessions recused himself from management of the Mueller investigation.

Deputy Attorney General (second-highest ranked official at the Justice Department)
Rod Rosenstein - nominated on 31 January 2017, confirmed in April 2017

Associate Attorney General (third-highest ranked official at the Justice Department)
Rachel Brand, in office for only nine months, announced in February 2018 that she would leave the embattled department 'soon' to accept a job at Wal-Mart, Inc.

U.S. Department of Justice Criminal Division
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice_Criminal_Division
headed by Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski {{CONFIRMED 7/2018}}
Besides having NO trial experience, he was a lawyer for Russia's Alfa-Bank; he denies any Trump Organization or Alfa-Bank connections and vows not to recuse himself.
{Benczkowski joined the top-level Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis in 2010, where his clients
included Alfa-Bank, the largest private commercial bank in Russia}

Secretary of Agriculture
ex-Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia {{CONFIRMED 4/2017}}
approved by committee on 30 March 2017; confirmed by Senate vote on April 24 of 87-11

Secretary of Commerce
'bankruptcy king' Wilbur Ross of New Jersey & Florida {{CONFIRMED 2/2017}}
a Wall Street billionaire who made his money as a notorious 'vulture investor': he offshored American textile jobs
to China & Mexico, and 12 coal workers died at his mine in West Virginia; Ross has a record of defending China on trade

Secretary of Defense
acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, promoted from Deputy Sec'y 12/2018
retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis {{CONFIRMED 1/2017, FIRED 1/2018}}

Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced his resignation 20 December 2018, effective in February; however,
his scathing resignation letter got him fired by Emperor Trump at the end of 2018.
top Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White abruptly resigned within hours of the 12/2018 departure of Secretary Mattis
(now no longer protected against months-long investigations over allegations that she mistreated employees).

Secretary of Education
billionaire and anti-public schools lobbyist Betsy Prince DeVos of Michigan {{CONFIRMED 2/2017}}
sister of Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater Xe mercenary service
in a first ever tied-up vote for a cabinet confirmation, Vice President Pence cast the final vote on February 7 to put DeVos over the top

Secretary of Energy
former Governor Rick Perry of Texas {{CONFIRMED 3/2017}}
board member of Energy Transfer Partners which is attempting to build the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline
confirmed in the Senate on March 2 with a vote of 62-37

Secretary of Health & Human Services
former Big Pharma lobbyist Alex Azar {{CONFIRMED 1/2018}}
former executive at Eli Lilly

former Congressman Tom Price of Georgia {{CONFIRMED 2/2017 > RESIGNED 9/2017}}
Price has long advocated: stripping Planned Parenthood of all federal funding and launching an all-out attack on a woman’s right to choose; repealing Obamacare and leaving
millions of Americans without health coverage; and slashing Medicaid by more than 30% and stripping Medicaid insurance from at least 14 million Americans. The Senate Finance Committee released a memo questioning Price's ethics, i.e. tax reporting violations. The Senate confirmed Price on February 9 by a vote of 52 to 47.
Tom Price resigned in September 2017 as Emperor Trump's Secretary of Health & Human Services because he was caught using more than $1M in department funds
to charter private jets for personal travel over routes with readily available commercial transport at much lower cost.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention :: C.D.C. [est. 1946]
Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald was appointed director 7/2017, resigned under fire 1/2018 after revelations about her financial investments
in tobacco and health-care companies raised questions of conflicts of interest.

Secretary of Homeland Security
former White House staffer Kirstjen Nielsen {{CONFIRMED 12/2017}}
retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly of Massachusetts {{CONFIRMED 1/2017 > White House 7/2017}}

Federal Emergency Management Agency :: F.E.M.A. [est.1979]
FEMA Deputy Administrator Peter T. Gaynor will be promoted to fill Administrator opening {2/2019} {{ SWORN 10/2018 }}
Administrator Brock Long {{NOM 4/2017; CONFIRMED 6/2017; RESIGNED 2/2019}}
Announced his resignation 2/2019 saying that it's time to go home to his family
Announced 9/2018: F.E.M.A. Administrator Brock Long will not be fired for his inappropriate use of cars owned by the government.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency :: I.C.E.
James Schwab, spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, resigned in June 2018; he said that his decision was prompted by the agency’s statements after the mayor of Oakland, California warned residents about an upcoming immigration raid: he could no longer 'bear the burden' of spreading falsehoods on behalf of the Trump administration.

U.S. Secret Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
created in 1865 under the Treasury Dept. to battle counterfeit money; re-assigned to the Dept. of Homeland Security in 2003
Director James M. Murray {{ career agent; PROMOTED 5/2019 }}
former Director Randolph 'Tex' Alles {{ SWORN 4/2017; FIRED by Trump 4/2019 }}

Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
loose cannon Dr. Ben Carson of Florida {{ CONFIRMED 3/2017 }}
confirmed in the Senate on March 2 with a vote of 58-41

Secretary of the Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke of Montana {{ CONFIRMED 3/2017, RESIGNED 12/2018 }}
former Congressman Zinke is a climate change skeptic: "It’s not proven science"; President Trump announced on 15 December 2018 that Secretary Zinke will step down
from his post at year's end; the likely reason is to avoid federal investigations into his travel, political activity, and potential conflicts of interest as Secretary.

nominee fast food CEO Andrew Puzder of Tennessee {{ WITHDRAWN 2/2017 }}
his company C.K.E. settled three California class-action lawsuits concerning overtime pay for $9 million in 2004; in 2007-2014, the company spent $20M
on labor lawsuits; a 2013 class-action lawsuit over failure to pay overtime to managers is still pending; further allegations of anti-labor actions and failure to pay
employer taxes and domestic abuse were revealed

Secretary of State
former C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo {{ CONFIRMED 4/2018 }}

oil company executive Rex Tillerson of Texas {{ CONFIRMED 1/2017 > FIRED 3/2018 }}
joined ExxonMobil in 1975 and has never worked anywhere else; while Tillerson served as ExxonMobil’s CEO, the company's profits collapsed
by more than 80 percent, falling from $39.5B in 2006 to $7.84B in 2016; listed among the Top Thirty Dirtbags of the One Percent in 2011
What is the Russian Order of Friendship, and why does Rex Tillerson have one?
The State Department’s entire senior management team - the top four deputies - resigned on January 25: Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy,
Assistant Secretary Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary Michele Bond, and Office of Foreign Missions director Gentry O. Smith

U.S. Ambassador to Britain
Woody Johnson {{CONFIRMED 8/2017}}
heir to Johnson & Johnson fortune and owner of the New York Jets N.F.L. pro football team

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley {{CONFIRMED 1/2017}}
who is a United Nations skeptic was approved by 96-4 Senate vote on 24 January 2017.

Secretary of Transportation
Elaine Chao of Kentucky (who is married to Sen. Mitch McConnell) {{CONFIRMED 1/2017}}

Secretary of the Treasury
'foreclosure king' Steven Mnuchin of California {{CONFIRMED 2/2017}}

Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Peter O'Rourke was appointed interim secretary in May 2018
Robert Wilkie, who served as interim secretary since March, was officially nominated on 17 May 2018 to be Secretary.
David Shulkin of Pennsylvania, promoted from Under Secretary for Health at the V.A. {{CONFIRMED 1/2017 > FIRED 3/2018}}
Shulkin was doing a great job, was fired because he refused to privatize the V.A.

Central Intelligence Agency
career C.I.A. official Gina Haspel was promoted from deputy director {{CONFIRMED 5/2018}}
Congressman Mike Pompeo of Kansas {{CONFIRMED 1/2017; became Secretary of State 4/2018}}
he supports torture, Guantanamo, and N.S.A. mass surveillance, yet was approved by the Senate on January 23 by a vote of 66-32.

Economic Advisory Council aka 'Strategic and Policy Forum'
Thousands of People’s Action members called on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to step down from Trump’s economic advisory council and stop collaborating with Trump’s illegal and immoral agenda (mostly his unconstitutional ban of Muslims); customers boycotted the Uber service across the country, taxi-drivers protested at New York City airports, and employees voiced opposition in person; Kalanick resigned from Trump’s economic advisory board on Thursday February 2.

Environmental Protection Agency [indep est. 12/1970]
official website • entry at Wikipedia
coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler {{CONFIRMED 2/2019}}
approved 52 to 47; acting director since Pruitt left in July
climate science skeptic Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt {{CONFIRMED 2/2017; QUIT OVER SCANDALS 7/2018}}

U.S. Census Bureau [est. 1902]
Ron Jarmin, Acting Director since 6/2017
Enrique Lamas, Acting Deputy Director
Director nominee pro-gerrymander Texas professor Thomas Brunell {{WITHDREW 2/2018}}

commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity {{never happened?}}
appointee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a vaccine skeptic and proponant of bad public-health policy

U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (C.F.P.B.)
The White House announced in June 2018 that President Trump will nominate Kathy Kraninger, an associate director at the Office of Management and Budget (O.M.B.), to lead the 'consumer watchdog' C.F.P.B.; she would take over from interim head Mick Mulvaney, and is expected to continue his policies. The selection will have to be confirmed by the Senate.
interim head OMB Director Mick Mulvaney

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Consumer_Product_Safety_Commission
Ann Marie Buerkle [GOP; apptd 2013, promoted to acting chair 2/2017]
safety activist Elliot Kaye [Dem; chair 2014-2017] plans to stay on as a commissioner until his term expires 10/2020

Council of Economic Advisors aka 'Strategic and Policy Forum' [est. 1946]
removed from Cabinet-level status by Trump 2/2017; academic Kevin Hassett was appointed Chairman 9/2017

Federal Bureau of Investigation
F.B.I. Director Christopher A. Wray {{CONFIRMED 8/2017}}
confirmed as Comey’s replacement in a 92-5 vote on 1 August 2017.

F.B.I. officials James B. Comey, Andrew McCabe, Robert S. Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, and Christopher Wray are all (or were until recently)
life-long registered Republicans – the right-wing fantasy about a 'liberal F.B.I. conspiracy' has no basis in fact.

former F.B.I. Director James Brien Comey, Jr. {{CONFIRMED 9/2013 > FIRED 5/2017}}
Appointed by President Obama to succeed Robert Mueller as F.B.I. Director; confirmed by U.S. Senate in September 2013; Comey's very stupid (at best) press release about the Hillary Clinton email investigation in October 2016 probably cost her the election. Comey was fired by President Trump in May 2017 to ease pressure about RussiaGate (didn't work); Comey quickly delivered meeting notes and Senate testimony about the F.B.I.'s investigation of former White House advisor Michael Flynn.

F.B.I. Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was fired by Emperor Trump - by tweet! - on 16 March 2018, just two days before McCabe's pension date.
McCabe created memos documenting his conversations with President Trump and with former F.B.I. Director James B. Comey, and gave those files to
Special Counsel Robert Mueller; McCabe was then interviewed by Mueller about the circumstances surrounding Comey's ouster last year.

Federal Communications Commission
nominee Ajit Pai is a net neutrality critic

National Security Council
longtime Chief of Staff retired LtGen Keith Kellogg (kept on by Trump)

Office of Management and Budget
Director nominee Congressman Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina

Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity [May 2017 to Jan 2018]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Advisory_Commission_on_Election_Integrity
Vice President Mike Pence served as Chair of the Commission; notorious vote-suppressor Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach served as Vice Chair. After many states refused to comply with orders to deliver personal data on their voters, and controversy about Democratic members of the Commission being refused participation, Emperor Trump closed down the scam in January 2018; the Executive Order turned the matter over to the Department of Homeland Security.

Republican National Committee
After allegations of a 'decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct' against female employees at his casino empire,
Steve Wynn resigned from his role as R.N.C. finance chair in late January 2018.

Securities & Exchange Commission
Wall Street lawyer Commissioner Jay Clayton - surely classic 'fox in charge of the henhouse' {{CONFIRMED 5/2017}}

Small Business Administration
Administrator nominee professional-wrestling executive Linda McMahon

very dreadful conservative Judge Neil M. Gorsuch of Colorado
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch

very dreadful conservative nominee Judge Brett Michael 'Above The Law' Kavanaugh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination

Details from here were moved to the Working Minds / Action / Supreme Court Page
when disgraced & unqualified Brett Kavanaugh was approved by the fascist Republicans of the U.S. Senate in October 2018.

White House Chief of Staff
retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly of Massachusetts {{APPOINTED 7/2017}}
R.N.C. Chairman Reince Priebus of Wisconsin {{APPOINTED 11/2016 > RESIGNED 7/2017}}

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for drug policy
23-year-old appointee Taylor Weyeneth stepped down in January 2018.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations
Joseph 'Joe' Hagin announced plans to step down in July 2018; he said that he had committed to serve for a year,
and stayed longer to see through plans for the summit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hagin

President's personal secretary and gatekeeper
27-year-old Madeleine Westerhout
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Westerhout

White House counsel
appointee Donald F. McGahn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McGahn

White House Counselor to the President
appointee Kellyanne Conway
was formerly a TV pundit, pollster, and campaign advisor

White House homeland security adviser
appointee Bush administration veteran Thomas Bossert

White House infrastructure adviser
appointee New York real estate tycoon Richard LeFrak

White House National Security Advisor
warmonger John R. Bolton {{APPOINTED 4/2018}}
was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005-2006 (17 months)
active Army LtGen H.R. McMaster {{APPOINTED 2/2017 > RESIGNED/RETIRED 4/2018}}
retired Army LtGen Mike Flynn {{APPOINTED 1/2017 > RESIGNED 2/2018}}

White House national security communications advisor
appointment of Monica Crowley was announced, but she was quickly accused of plagiarism in her PhD dissertation
and in her 2012 book; {{WITHDRAWN 1/2017}}

White House Office of Management and Budget [formalized 1970]
OMB Director Mick Mulvaney reports to the President, Vice President, and the White House Chief of Staff.
Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management

Office of Personnel Management {reports to deputy director for management}
OPM Director Jeff Pon [appointed 3/2018, quit suddenly 10/2018]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Tien_Han_Pon

White House Office of Public Liaison [formalized 1974]
former Director of Communications Omarosa Manigault Newman {{APPOINTED 1/2017 > FIRED 12/2017}}
Prominent contestant on Trump's TV shows, 2004-2013; worked for Trump's campaign, July-December 2016; appointed to White House staff position in January 2017; fired by Chief of Staff Kelly on 12 December 2017, access deactivated, and forcibly removed from the building; appeared on "Celebrity Big Brother" in February 2018; published her 'tell-all' book in August 2018.

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [formed May 1976]
The Trump White House allowed O.S.T.P. to shrink from 135 to 45 people and to be without even acting leadership for two years; extreme-weather expert Kelvin Droegemeier,
a top meteorologist at the University of Oklahoma, was nominated in August 2018 and finally confirmed by the Senate on 2 January 2019.
official O.S.T.P. website • O.S.T.P. entry at Wikipedia

Kelvin Droegemeier, Director {{APPOINTED 2 January 2019}}
fiercely anti-intellectual computer scientist David Gelernter {{nominated 1/2017, not confirmed}}

White House Press Secretary
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Press_Secretary

incumbent Kayleigh McEnany, since 7 April 2020
Stephanie Grisham: never held a formal White House press briefing, lasted 281 days {{APPOINTED 7/2019 > RESIGNED 4/2020}}
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, lasted one year & 11 months {{APPOINTED 7/2017 > RESIGNED 7/2019}}
Sean 'Pants On Fire' Spicer: known for spewing 'alternative facts', lasted 182 days {{APPOINTED 1/2017 > RESIGNED 7/2017}}

White House Senior Policy Advisor
Nazi extremist Stephen Miller {{APPOINTED 1/2017}}
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Miller_(political_advisor)
Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner {{APPOINTED 1/2017}}

White House special assistant to the president for international energy & environmental policy
appointee George David Banks resigned in Feb 2018 after learning from White House lawyers that he would not be granted a permanent clearance;
reasons for the denial have not been disclosed.

White House special assistant to the president (for really nasty communications?)

Julia Hahn [b. 1991] was radicalized while working on Laura Ingraham's radio show in Chicago; hired by Breitbart News, mentored by Steve Bannon;
went to the White House as Bannon's assistant in January 2017; Bannon quit in August 2017, Hahn stayed.
entry at Wikipedia • watch 11/2017 "Who Is Julia Hahn?" web segment [2:47] online at YouTube

White House special assistant to the president for communications
director of White House message strategy Cliff Sims [1/2017 to 5/2018] - conservative blogger from Alabama, founded Yellowhammer News

White House speechwriter {working under Stephen Miller}
appointee David Sorensen abruptly resigned in February 2018 after The Washington Post reporte4d abuse claims by his ex-wife, Jessica Corbett; she said that he was violent
and emotionally abusive during their turbulent 2½-year marriage; he vehemently denied the allegations, saying that she was the one who victimized him.

White House Staff Secretary
Rob Porter - appointed 20 January 2017, resigned 7 February 2018
Porter resigned after news of past allegations of spousal abuse made by Porter's two ex-wives was widely reported in the media, immediately bringing questions about why Porter was allowed to keep his job for so long; White House spokespeople said that the F.B.I. first contacted them in Summer 2017 about Porter's pending security status, and that they didn't know the extent of the allegations because his background investigation was never completed. F.B.I. Director Christopher Wray quickly contradicted the White House spin, telling the Senate Intelligence Committee that the F.B.I. submitted a partial report on Porter's security clearance in March 2017, and completed the initial review in July of 2017.

Trump's longtime personal attorney Michael D. Cohen
under investigation by the F.B.I. and by Robert Mueller's RussiaGate team for possible crimes around the $130,000 bribe of porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016; Michael Cohen's lawyer is Lanny Davis (2020); on 9 April 2018 FBI agents raided the office, home, hotel room, and safe deposit box of Michael Cohen; the material seized included documents related to Cohen's $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels; Cohen reportedly is being investigated for bank and wire fraud, and for campaign finance violations.

Mark Corallo
former spokesman for President Trump's legal team, plans to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller how Donald Trump Sr. and people
close to him crafted a FALSE press release about Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Russians.

personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz
co-founder Washington, DC law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres

Jane Serene Raskin and Marty Raskin
Florida-based former federal prosecutors were hired 19 April 2018

Works About Trump's Administration
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	"Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House" bestseller [2018] by journalist Michael Wolff Kindle Edition from Henry Holt/Macmillan [1/2018] for $14.99 Henry Holt & Co. 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2018] for $20.98 Macmillan UNABR audio CD read by Holter Graham [1/2018] for $25.94
	"The Trump White House: Changing The Rules of The Game" [2018] by Ronald Kessler - 'includes an exclusive interview with President Trump' Kindle Edition from Crown Forum/Random House [4/2018] for $13.99 Crown Forum 9½x6¼ hardcover [4/2018] for $17.70

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