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Trump chooses hardliners for national security team

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Update: 2016-11-18 22:47:16
Trump chooses hardliners for national security team Photo Courtesy: CNN

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday three key members of the national security team for his administration -- signaling he will make good on the hard-line agenda on which he campaigned.

Unveiled Friday were nominations of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo as CIA director, and retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as national security advisor, reports CNN.

Sessions and Pompeo would be subject to Senate confirmation, while the position of national security advisor is not.

All three men take an uncompromising approach to national security and differ sharply from the Obama administration’s doctrine.

The trio indicated that Trump intends to stand by some of his more controversial national security positions from his campaign, rather than appointing more moderate-leaning candidates.

Sessions is most known for his tough stance on immigration, much like Trump, and backed the Republican presidential nominee's proposal early in the campaign to temporary block all foreign Muslims from entering the US -- a position Trump has since walked back.

Flynn has a reputation for a fiery temperament and has courted controversy with his strident positions on Islam and terrorism, as well as his penchant for sending out conspiracist tweets.

Pompeo, who was not a Trump supporter during the primary, co-authored an “additional views” report to the Benghazi Committee’s report on its investigation into the diplomatic mission attack in Benghazi, believing the Republican-led committee’s report was not hard enough on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration.

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