{"id":58338,"date":"2016-11-30T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58338"},"modified":"2016-11-30T16:41:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:41:01","slug":"trump-reportedly-considering-sarah-palin-to-run-veterans-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=58338","title":{"rendered":"Trump Reportedly Considering Sarah Palin To Run Veterans&#8217; Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Following chatter that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in line for Interior Secretary, ABC News reports that President-Elect Trump is considering her to lead Veterans Affairs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump considering <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SarahPalinUSA<\/a> for VA Secretary-per our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/shushwalshe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@shushwalshe<\/a> (who wrote the book on the Palin!)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Llamas (@LlamasNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LlamasNBC\/status\/804028426566959109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Palin was previously a strong supporter of the president-elect throughout his campaign. She endorsed the billionaire in January during his primary campaign, ahead of the Iowa state caucuses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therightscoop.com\/report-sarah-palin-consideration-big-job-trump-administration\/\">As The Right Scoop reports, <\/a>earlier it was reported and confirmed by<strong> Kellyanne Conway that Sarah Palin was NOT in consideration for any position in the Trump administration:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/11\/22\/sarah-palin-not-being-considered-for-any-trump-cabinet-positions\/\"><strong>NY POST <\/strong><\/a>\u2013 Sarah Palin\u2019s isn\u2019t in the running for a cabinet job in the Trump administration \u2014 at least as far as the senior adviser to his transition team is aware.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that they\u2019re close and that she\u2019s been a great, loyal friend and adviser to him throughout the campaign, but I haven\u2019t seen her as part of the cabinet mix,\u201d Kellyanne Conway told Fox News\u2019 \u201cThe Kelly File\u201d on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Conway quickly added: \u201cBut that doesn\u2019t mean that she\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Either way, Conway suggested, the former vice presidential candidate\u2019s voice would be heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>But she\u2019s not the only one in consideration for VA Secretary.<\/strong> It was also reported today that Pete Hegseth is also in consideration:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/mundyspeaks\/status\/803982215105298432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-30\/trump-reportedly-considering-sarah-palin-run-veterans-affairs\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-11-30\/trump-reportedly-considering-sarah-palin-run-veterans-affairs<\/a><\/p>\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-58338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58338","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=58338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}