Donald Trump picks an establishment figure and a firebrand for two top White House jobs
Washington — Donald Trump was weighing contenders for other top jobs in his administration after choosing Washington insider Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and firebrand outsider Stephen Bannon as senior counsellor. Less than a week after his upset win over Democrat Hillary Clinton in last Tuesday’s presidential election, Trump’s choice on Sunday of Priebus, the Republican Party national committee chairman and friend of House of Representatives speaker Paul Ryan, could help him repair his strained relations with members of the Republican establishment. But Trump also named Bannon, the combative former head of the right-wing website Breitbart News, as his strategist and senior counsellor. The statement said Bannon and Priebus would be "working as equal partners to transform the federal government." The choice of each man could anger a segment of Trump’s supporters. Hardline Trump backers, who were counting on Trump to keep his campaign promise to "drain the swamp" of bu...
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