Trump Transition Effort Moving Forward
The transition team for president-elect Donald Trump has staffers tracking different government agencies, according to a chart circulating among industry officials. Jeffrey Eisenach, a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is the staffer listed as tracking the FCC, as…
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expected (see 1611090034 and 1611090038). Eisenach defended Trump’s telecom stances on C-SPAN’s The Communicators this month (see 1611040057). Bill Walton and David Malpass are the transition staffers listed as overseeing the transition’s advisers on economic issues, including Eisenach and Ray Washburne, a Texas investor who’s tracking the Commerce Department. Washburne has been vice chairman of The Trump Victory Committee. Michael Torrey is the transition staffer eyeing the Agriculture Department, which includes the Rural Utilities Service, and Kevin O’Connor is tracking the Justice Department. The Trump transition didn't confirm the authenticity of the circulating chart. “My No. 1 priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful,” President Barack Obama said Thursday after meeting with Trump. Trump has created a website and Twitter account for his transition effort. “We’ve got a lot of really great priorities,” Trump told reporters Thursday at the Capitol, expressing interest in “big-league jobs.” Great speculation has surrounded Trump’s leading advisers and surrogates and what positions they could receive in the incoming administration. “I’d love to be the person that comes up with a solution to cybersecurity,” Trump backer Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, told Fox News Thursday, declining to comment specifically on a possible administration role as attorney general or Homeland Security chief. “Now, I’d like to invent the real overall holistic solution to cybersecurity.” Giuliani, who chairs the cybersecurity practice at Greenberg Traurig, is listed as taking a leave of absence currently.