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WSJ: Trump Jr steered Interior pick

Donald Trump Jr. heavily influenced his father’s decision to fill the post of interior secretary with Rep. Ryan Zinke, a one-term congressman who shares the younger Trump’s enthusiasm for hunting, say people familiar with the pick. The decision-making process conflicts with the transition team’s assertions that President-elect Donald Trump’s children are focusing on taking over the family business. It illustrates the challenge Trump family members are likely to confront in separating their business dealings from the Trump administration, given their longstanding practice of consulting each other on major decisions/Wall Street Journal. More here.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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