Trump sons vetting potential White House staffers for unconditional loyalty: report
The election is still nearly six months away, but Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are already preparing the transition team for their father's second trip to the White House.
Axios reported Wednesday that Trump's heirs will be vetting potential staffers and appointees for top cabinet positions.
According to aides close to the former president, neither brother will be officially in charge of anything. Instead, their work will be done in secret to ensure all staff will implement Trump's vision — not for America but for the future of the Republican Party, the report said.
During Trump's first term, several people, including Gen. John Kelly, Gen. James Mattis, Gen. Mark Esper, and others, blocked the implementation of actions that could violate international treaties.
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One person close to Don Jr. said that his goal is specifically "to keep the John Boltons of the world outside a second Trump administration."
Bolton published a book warning that Trump was too dangerous to be given a second term.
"He cares almost exclusively about his own interests," Bolton wrote in "The Room Where It Happened," published in 2020. He cautioned that a second Trump term would ensure he was surrounded by "a White House of serfs" to carry out his orders without question.
The Heritage Foundation established the "2025 Plan," which aims to usher in an entirely new government of people who are loyalists to the conservative cause. The idea that the group is claiming to be behind such an effort is angering the elder Trump sons as well as their father, which is why the men were dispatched, the report claimed.
"Trump campaign advisers believe the groups can be helpful but have been infuriated as the Biden campaign has used the groups' policy papers to attack the campaign," reported Axios.
This is the latest instance of Trump reportedly deploying family to run things. Just last month, Eric Trump's wife Lara took over the national Republican Party as a co-chair.
The eldest Trump son is also pressing his father to appoint a "fighter" like J.D. Vance as his vice presidential running mate, Axios reported.