Anonymous ID: 9e1815 March 22, 2019, 2:20 p.m. No.5830844   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0886

When Trump won the presidency, he tapped 4 people to vet the 420 positions available.

 

That team was called the Tiger Team

John Sweeney (ex NY congressman, replaced by Gillibrand)

Ira Goldstein (Genie Oil and Gas lawyer, now working for Kushner)

Martin Silverstein (Lawyer for former Uraguay president)

and

Anthony Scaramucci.

 

These four people vetted 420 people

 

He ran President-elect Donald Trump's New York state presidential campaign and organized a raucous rally in April that packed 15,000 people into the Times Union Center. He's been tapped as a high-level member of Trump's presidential transition team, known as the "Tiger Team."

 

Fueled by coffee and chicken salad sandwiches from the Trump Tower's cafe, Sweeney and three other high-powered Trump partisans have completed more than 300 interviews thus far. They're conducting 30- to 60-minute interviews of applicants for jobs including senior national security and intelligence positions, ambassadors, undersecretaries and top-ranking officials in nearly every federal agency. They conduct interviews by phone or in person and rank finalists 1 through 5. The final hiring is done by senior Trump aides following background checks.

 

"The last two weeks we did a lot of work on State Department and United Nations positions and the pool of applicants is impressive beyond belief," Sweeney said. "We did 15 phone interviews with ambassadors around the world yesterday, including six current ambassadors looking for extensions."

 

Sweeney is conducting interviews alongside three transition team members, lawyers all: Martin Silverstein, U.S. ambassador to Uruguay under President George W. Bush; Ira Greenstein, president of Genie Energy Ltd.; and financier Anthony Scaramucci, founder and co-managing partner of the hedge fund SkyBridge Capital.

 

https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Ex-Congressman-Sweeney-of-Clifton-Park-vets-Trump-10852089.php