News Analysis
President-elect Donald Trump has already named many of the men and women he wants to fill pivotal foreign policy and intelligence roles.
Trump’s picks, analysts told The Epoch Times, reflect a mixture of different foreign policy perspectives, aligning with the coalition that helped elevate him to the White House, a group ranging from the more hawkish Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the next secretary of state, to the more dovish Democrat-turned Republican Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence. In aggregate, it closely resembles the modern, Trump-era Republican Party.
On Nov. 12, early selections such as Michael Waltz for national security adviser and, at that time, rumors of Rubio stirred up enthusiasm among neoconservatives, a group that supplied some of Trump’s staunchest opponents during his first term….