Donald Trump
revealed part of his foreign policy advisory team and outlined an
unabashedly non-interventionist approach to world affairs during a
wide-ranging meeting with The
Washington Post’s editorial board.
Trump national security team
chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) that is counseling him on foreign
affairs and helping to shape his policies:
Senator Jeff
Sessions: Chairs
Donald Trump’s National Security Team. Sessions is the ranking Republican member
on the Senate Budget Committee,[20] a
former ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and a senior member of
the Armed
Services Committee. He also serves on the Environment and Public Works Committee.
General Keith Kellogg, former
Army Lieutenant General and has experience in national defense and
homeland security issues currently, according to Costa’s and Rucker’s
report, “an executive vice president at Virginia-based CACI International,
a Virginia-based intelligence and information technology consulting firm
with clients around the world.”
Carter Page Ph.D: A graduate
of the United States Naval Academy and now the managing partner of Global
Energy Capital, is a longtime energy-industry executive who rose through the
ranks at Merrill Lynch around the world before founding his current firm. He
previously was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations where he focused on
the Caspian Sea region and the economic development in former Soviet states, according
to his company biography and documents from his appearances at panels over the
past decade.
George Papadopoulos: He’s an oil and energy consultant is the director of an international energy
center at the London Centre of International Law Practice.
“He previously advised the
presidential campaign of Ben Carson and worked as a research fellow at the
Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington,”
Walid Phares Ph.D.: He’s a
counter-terrorism expert teaches
at National Defense University and at Washington’s Daniel Morgan Academy, “and
has advised members of Congress as well as appeared as a television
analyst on terrorism and the Middle East.”
Joseph E. Schmitz: Served as President Ronald Reagan's top diplomat [was] inspector general at the Department of Defense
previously the Inspector General at the Department of Defense during the George
W. Bush administration’s early days and also worked at Blackwater Worldwide.
Trump says I have quite a few more. But that’s
a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other
people in different aspects of what we do. But that’s a pretty representative
group.”
