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Trump election: The people around the president-elect
- 18 November 2016
- From the section US & Canada
As US President-elect Donald
Trump makes his transition to the White House, we look at the family
members and associates who are part of the team and could have key roles
in decision-making during his presidency.
THE POLITICIANS
Vice-President-elect Mike Pence
The Indiana governor, 57, is charged with leading the team deciding the key appointments in the new administration.Mr Pence was raised Roman Catholic along with his five siblings in Columbus, Indiana, and says he was inspired by liberal icons John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
He is known for his staunch opposition to abortion, signing a bill in March to ban abortion in Indiana on the basis of disability, gender or race of the foetus.
He has said he would favour overturning a 1973 Supreme Court judgement, often referred to as the Roe v Wade case, which bars the US government from prohibiting abortions.
Women's rights advocates have mounted online campaigns against his views, including asking people to call his office to tell them about their periods or to make donations to family-planning organisations in Mr Pence's name.
He served as the chair of the House Republican Conference, the third highest-ranking Republican leadership position.
He also chaired the Republican Study Group, a coalition of conservative House Republicans, which could give him a boost with some evangelicals of the party that have questioned Mr Trump's ideological purity, the BBC's Anthony Zurcher says.
Who is Mike Pence?
Jeff Sessions - Attorney General
Mr Sessions has been one of Mr Trump's closest allies throughout the campaign.In a statement, Mr Trump called the senator from Alabama a "world class legal mind".
"Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him," Mr Trump said.
Mr Sessions said that he "enthusiastically" embraced Mr Trump's vision for "one America and his commitment to equal justice under law".
"I look forward to fulfilling my duties with an unwavering dedication to fairness and impartiality," he said.
Mr Sessions sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Committee.
Allegations of racism have dogged him throughout is career.
He lost out on a federal judgeship back in 1986 when former colleagues said he had used the n-word and joked about the Ku Klux Klan, saying he thought they were "okay, until he learned that they smoked marijuana".
Mr Sessions was also accused of calling a black assistant US attorney "boy" and labelling the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "un-American" and "communist-inspired."
Mike Pompeo - CIA Director
The hardline Republican Congressman has been nominated to become the United States' new spymaster.Mr Pompeo, 52, was offered the job of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director even though he backed US President-elect Donald Trump's rival, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, in the party's presidential primary race.
He also opposes closing Guantanamo Bay and, after visiting the prison in 2013, he remarked that some inmates who had declared a hunger strike looked like they had put on weight.
Mr Pompeo said in a statement he was "honoured and humbled" to accept the nomination, noting that it was a "difficult decision" to leave his post.
Mike Pompeo - America's likely new spymaster
Michael Flynn - National Security Adviser
The retired three-star US Army lieutenant-general was Mr Trump's main national security adviser during the presidential campaign and has accepted an offer to stay on in the same role under Mr Trump's administration.The 57-year-old is credited for helping Mr Trump connect with veterans despite the candidate's lack of military service.
In February, he said on Twitter, "Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL" and he has published a book, The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies.
Gen Flynn has been a life-long Democrat and a registered member of party but was heard chanting "lock her up" against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at Trump rallies.
During the campaign, he also pilloried the Obama administration's approach to the threat posed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Gen Flynn has said the US should work more closely with Russia in Syria to combat IS. He has been criticised for his repeated appearances on RT, the Russian state television network.
Profile: Michael Flynn
Reince Priebus - Chief of Staff
Mr Trump's White House gatekeeper is 44 years old.But he has never held elected office and brings no policy experience to the White House in a role serving as a liaison to cabinet agencies.
Mr Priebus is close to House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Wisconsinite, who could be instrumental in steering the new administration's legislative agenda.
Nikki Haley - Secretary of State?
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has emerged as contender for secretary of state, along with another formerly vocal critic of the property mogul, ex-Utah Governor Mitt Romney.Ms Haley first backed Florida Senator Marco Rubio and later Texas Senator Ted Cruz before she finally threw her support behind Mr Trump during the campaign season.
Nikki Haley, the Republican who took on Trump
The 44-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants, is the first minority and female governor of South Carolina, a deeply conservative state with a long history of racial tension.
As the youngest governor in the US and only the second Indian-American to serve at the helm of a US state, she has been characterised as a rising star within the Republican Party.
But her biggest appearance on the national stage came last year when she had the Confederate battle flag removed from the Capitol.
Chris Christie - out in the cold?
The New Jersey governor was the first former presidential candidate to endorse Mr Trump, sending shockwaves through the Republican Party establishment and lending legitimacy to the upstart New Yorker's campaign.His star has lost significant lustre recently, however, as he was unceremoniously replaced as the head of Mr Trump's presidential transition team, with his allies being removed from positions of influence.
This fall from grace can be partially attributed to Mr Christie's seeming reluctance to campaign with or speak out in support of Mr Trump in the controversy-filled final month the campaign.
It also may be due to the recent convictions of two of his top New Jersey aides involved in a scandal over the closure of a major bridge linking New Jersey and New York City, allegedly to punish a local mayor.
Since presidential cabinet appointments must go before the Senate, confirmation could be problematic while this cloud hangs over him.
Steven Mnuchin - Treasury Secretary?
Mr Trump himself floated the idea of naming his finance chairman for the post of treasury secretary.Mr Mnuchin amassed a fortune during his 17 years at Goldman Sachs before founding a movie production company that was behind such box office hits as the X-Men franchise and American Sniper.
However, a Trump aide has also confirmed they have asked JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon to be US Treasury Secretary; it's not clear how he responded.
THE AIDES
Stephen Bannon - Chief Strategist
Though not a cabinet appointment, Mr Bannon, 62, could wield immense influence behind the scenes as one of Mr Trump's key advisers.A number of critics have accused Mr Bannon, a former Goldman Sachs banker, of promoting extreme views.
The firebrand conservative helped transform Breitbart into the leading mouthpiece of the party's fringe, anti-establishment wing.
The combative site serves up an anti-establishment agenda that critics accuse of xenophobia and misogyny. Under Mr Bannon, it has become one of the most-read conservative news and opinion sites in the US.
Born in Virginia in 1953, Mr Bannon spent four years in the navy before completing an MBA at Harvard. He then went into investment banking and, after a spell with Goldman Sachs, moved successfully into media financing.
He shifted into film production, working in Hollywood before branching out into independent political documentary making, paying homage to former US President Ronald Reagan, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement.
Through this work he met Andrew Breitbart, a staunchly conservative media entrepreneur who wanted to create a site that challenged what he saw as liberal-dominated mainstream media.
When Andrew Breitbart died of a heart attack in 2012, Mr Bannon took over as head of Breitbart News and drove it forward.
The 'John Wayne' of politics
Kellyanne Conway - White House Press Secretary?
The 49-year-old Republican strategist and veteran pollster was promoted as Mr Trump's third campaign manager in August as part of another staff shake-up.Ms Kelly joined Mr Trump's team in July after working for a super PAC that supported Mr Trump's primary rival, Senator Ted Cruz.
She has spent most of her career helping conservative politicians court female voters through her company, The Polling Company Inc./Woman Trend.
Hope Hicks - Senior Adviser?
Ms Hicks, 27, served as Mr Trump's press secretary and handled media requests during his campaign.Though she rarely speaks in public, Ms Hicks handled most of Mr Trump's campaign communications on her own until the New York businessman hired more staff over the summer.
Dan Scavino - director of White House social media?
Mr Scavino and Ms Hicks were two of the only aides to remain by Mr Trump's side during the many staff shake-ups throughout his tumultuous campaign.He ran Mr Trump's social media operations and was recently named the president-elect's director of social media for his transition team.
Mr Scavino first met the New York billionaire as a teenage caddie working at one of Mr Trump's golf courses and later rose to a senior position within the Trump Organization.
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