Hardly anyone expected his first election victory. However, things will look different in 2024: after Donald Trump was able to leave his competitor Nikki Haley far behind on Super Tuesday, Trump is the Republican presidential candidate.
While Trump is no stranger to self-doubt, even he was surprised by his victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016. After his success, he revealed that he had long expected defeat on Election Day. But then “out of nowhere” the results changed in his favor.
In this election campaign, however, Trump has his sights firmly set on victory: the 77-year-old is no longer a political novice, and that is why many politicians are already warning about his second term: “He already has a A team of loyal employees around him tried to agenda 100 percent,” SPD foreign policy expert Nils Schmid said after Super Tuesday.
When it comes to human resources, Trump is not considered a great strategist who selects his employees well in advance and with specific areas of responsibility. Yet there are already some names circulating when it comes to possible positions in his second cabinet. Watson media partner t-online introduces some people who could become important in a possible second term:
Although the 38-year-old didn’t have a front-row seat to the Trump administration, Miller was still one of the defining figures of Trump’s first term: Miller wrote speeches for Trump, was one of his top advisers in the White House and is considered a thought leader in immigration policy at the time. During his first term, Trump imposed a temporary ban on entry to several Muslim countries or separated refugee children from their parents.
In terms of domestic policy, migration is likely to once again be one of the central issues in the upcoming election campaign – and Miller remained loyal to Trump’s side even after leaving the White House. There is speculation that he could fill a key role in the cabinet as attorney general: Miller could then test the legal limits of Trump’s actions, hire many loyal officials in the department and also ensure that Trump gets out. his second term with as little impunity as possible. Miller currently heads the organization “America First Legal,” which handles lawsuits against the Biden administration and the “radical left.”
The 57-year-old is no stranger to Germany: Trump made Grenell US ambassador to Germany in 2018. Later he was also temporary coordinator of the secret services in his cabinet. Grenell is now said to have ambitions for the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
NATO countries in particular are likely to feel the impact of his foreign policy stance. He recently called his hard line, even towards allied states, “asshole diplomacy”: like Trump, Grenell is also publicly pushing for higher defense spending by member states. Trump recently publicly threatened that the US would otherwise fail to protect states in the event of a possible attack from Russia.
“Pay your bills and we won’t have any more problems with each other,” Grenell said in a recent interview with “Zeit.” Conversely, the former ambassador also supports Trump’s demand to drastically cut back or stop military spending for Ukraine: he can no longer explain to American taxpayers why they have to pay more and more money to Ukraine, while according to him, Ukraine has no interest in doing so. worries about. strive for a peace plan.
The adviser caused a stir in 2016 when, among other things, he tried to prevent investigations against Trump and possible Russian influence on the election campaign. Patel later worked in the Trump administration at the National Security Council, for the coordinator of the intelligence services and for the secretary of Defense. He also wrote a children’s book in which a certain ‘King Donald’ is chased by the dark ‘Hillary Queenton’.
Even during Trump’s presidency, there was speculation that Patel could take over as deputy head of the FBI or CIA – although this reportedly failed due to protests from other officials. Now he is even said to be in charge of the American Secret Service.
The right-wing extremist thought leader was only active in Trump’s first cabinet for a few months. However, he could return to the White House as Trump’s chief of staff in 2024. Bannon attracted attention with his podcast, in which he repeatedly praises Trump.
Bannon told a ZDF team that they now have the opportunity to be “a pure, national populist movement that is beholden to no one when we take power in November.” From his point of view, Trump does not want to be a dictator, but it is logical that they will immediately start installing followers in the US authorities: “We are destroying the administrative state – brick by brick.” He sentenced Bannon to four months in prison in 2021 for failing to appear at a hearing into the storming of the Capitol.
Bannon has appealed the decision and is therefore free. Here too, Trump could help him: in one of his last official acts as president, he pardoned Bannon in 2021, saving him from trial.
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