{"id":29667,"date":"2016-11-17T12:32:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29667"},"modified":"2016-11-17T12:32:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T17:32:34","slug":"necessary-changes-in-the-trump-transition-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29667","title":{"rendered":"Necessary Changes In The Trump Transition Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/youre-fired-trump-vows-to-cut-all-lobbyists-from-transition-team\/article\/2607519\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Examiner<\/a> posted an article about changes to the Trump Transition team. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chris Christie\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Christie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Chris Christie<\/a> has been replaced by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"-elect\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/-elect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Vice-President elect<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Mike Pence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Pence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Mike Pence<\/a>, and other changes have been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>President-elect Trump&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"White House\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">White House<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Presidential transition of Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/change.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">transition team<\/a> has vowed to go <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Lobbying\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lobbying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">lobbyist<\/a>-free, after coming under criticism for staffing up on lobbyists despite campaign promises to fight the influence of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Advocacy group\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Advocacy_group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">special interests<\/a> in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Vice President-elect Pence and the White House transition have signaled plans to clear out any lobbyists serving in official roles as they begin the 10-week transition process until Trump&#8217;s <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Inauguration\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inauguration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">inaugration<\/a> on Jan. 20, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/11\/16\/pence-removing-lobbyists-from-trump-transition-team.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to a report<\/a> from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fox News Channel\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fox_News_Channel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Draining the swamp is not going to be easy&#8211;there are a lot of people who have a vested interest in maintaining the swamp&#8211;it has made them very wealthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday The Washington Examiner posted an article about changes to the Trump Transition team. Chris Christie has been replaced by Vice-President elect Mike Pence, and other changes have been announced. The article reports: President-elect Trump&#8217;s White House transition team &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=29667\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[469,3357,7318,2720,10444,10445],"class_list":["post-29667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chris-christie","tag-donald-trump","tag-mike-pence","tag-the-washington-examiner","tag-trump-transition-team","tag-washington-lobbyists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29668,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667\/revisions\/29668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}