President-elect Donald Trump has issued a flurry of major announcements in recent days of Cabinet secretaries and senior aides to staff his next administration beginning on Jan. 20.
On the surface, the procedure appears like the usual process for the transition of a new president-elect into the next White House reign of 1,462 days.
But it’s not.
The differences between building a team for his first term and today’s personnel assembly are both subtle and stark. They reveal how much the 78-year-old returning president has learned – and endured — in these past eight years. And what he intends to do for the next four.
For one thing, Trump, in many cases, is foregoing the usual FBI background checks of individuals traditionally used to uncover any personal, financial, or security risks that could emerge later and create serious political or security problems.
Instead, his team is…
