{"id":34012,"date":"2016-03-21T16:23:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34012"},"modified":"2016-03-21T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T20:23:25","slug":"trump-announces-foreign-policy-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=34012","title":{"rendered":"Trump Announces Foreign Policy Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"artPgHdLnWrapper\">\n<div id=\"imageMid\" class=\"artImageContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/CMSPages\/GetFile.aspx?guid=fb8b0601-93fb-41aa-9e6c-3f3d7a9e1370&amp;SiteName=Newsmax&amp;maxsidesize=600\" alt=\"Image: Trump Announces Foreign Policy Team\" \/><br \/>\n<span class=\"artCaptionContainer\"> (John Sommers II\/Getty Images) <\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"artPgByline\"> By Cathy Burke\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0NEWSMAX<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"artPgShareCont1\" class=\"share-bar\">\n<div class=\"fb-root\">\n<div id=\"artPgSocVertFB\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"plc_lt_zoneContent_pageplaceholder_pageplaceholder_lt_zoneLeft_NewsmaxArticleLayout_pnl\" class=\"artPgMnStryWrapper\">\n<div id=\"mainArticleDiv\">GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump has revealed a partial list of his foreign policy advisory team \u2014 a mix of private military intelligence, oil and energy, and defense experts, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2016\/03\/21\/donald-trump-reveals-foreign-policy-team-in-meeting-with-the-washington-post\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trump-foreign-1pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory\">the Washington Post reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump announced last week the panel would be <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/donald-trump-names-jeff-sessions-chairman\/2016\/03\/16\/id\/719484\/\">headed by Alabama GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I have quite a few more,&#8221; he tells the Post. &#8220;But that&#8217;s a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do. 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Bush&#8217;s administration; he previously worked for Blackwater Worldwide, the private military and security contractor that provided services to the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Independent reports Blackwater received notoriety in 2007 when a group of its employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured 20 in Nisour Square, Baghdad. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/blackwater-guard-found-guilty\/2014\/10\/22\/id\/602384\/\">Four Blackwater security guards<\/a><\/strong> were later convicted in a U.S. court.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Walid Phares, who has taught at the National Defense University and Daniel Morgan Academy in Washington, has advised members of Congress, and has appeared as a television analyst on terrorism and the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li>Carter Page, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy who rose through the ranks at Merrill Lynch and now is managing partner of Global Energy Capital, the Post reports; previously he was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he focused on the Caspian Sea region and the economic development in former Soviet states.<\/li>\n<li>George Papadopoulos, director of an international energy center at the London Centre of International Law Practice, the Post reports; he previously advised the presidential campaign of Ben Carson and worked as a research fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/donald-trump-adviser-foreign-policy-whalid-phares\/2016\/03\/21\/id\/720158\/#ixzz43ZS6q4Uq\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Headline\/donald-trump-adviser-foreign-policy-whalid-phares\/2016\/03\/21\/id\/720158\/#ixzz43ZS6q4Uq<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}