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Trump's Koch Administration
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Trump's Koch Administration
Despite past clashes and looming policy disputes the Koch brothers
operation has allies in key positions on Trumps team.
By KENNETH P. VOGEL and ELIANA JOHNSON
11/28/16 05:01 AM EST
Politico
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/trump-koch-brothers-231863
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Charles Koch once likened the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary
Clinton to being asked to choose cancer or a heart attack.
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Now, Kochs allies are helping to launch Trumps administration, giving
Charles and his brother David potential inroads with a president whose
campaign they refused to support.
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The president-elect, in filling out his transition team and
administration, has drawn heavily from the vast network of donors and
advocacy groups built by the billionaire industrialist brothers, who have
sought to reshape American politics in their libertarian image.
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From White House Counsel Don McGahn and transition team advisers Tom Pyle,
Darin Selnick and Alan Cobb to Presidential Inaugural Committee member
Diane Hendricks and transition-team executive committee members Rebekah
Mercer and Anthony Scaramucci, Trump has surrounded himself with people
tied to the Kochs.
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In creating the Koch network, I dont think that we ever envisioned that we
would be supplying staffers to this semi-free market, semi-populist
president, said Frayda Levin, a donor to the network who chairs the board
of its main voter mobilization group, Americans for Prosperity. But were
happy that hes picking people who have that free market background,
particularly because on many issues, he is a blank slate, so anybody with
expertise is in an amazing position to shape his agenda.
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And many more Koch-linked operatives are expected to join Trumps nascent
administration in the coming weeks, according to Trump transition-team
sources. Names being considered include Koch Industries lobbyist Brian
Henneberry and former company spokesman Matt Lloyd, as well as Daniel
Garza, who runs a Koch-backed nonprofit called the LIBRE Initiative that
courts Latinos, not to mention a handful of veterans of the Koch networks
advocacy groups who worked on the Trump campaign from top Pence adviser
Marc Short and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to
ex-campaign aides Stuart Jolly, Eli Miller, Scott Hagerstrom, Charles
Munoz and Matt Ciepielowski.
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Perhaps more surprisingly, despite some predictions of imminent policy
clashes, theres already informal communication between the Trump team and
the Koch network, and both camps are signaling a willingness to work
together on issues of mutual interest. David Koch even attended Trumps
election night victory party.
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How long the comity lasts between Trump and the powerful Koch brothers
could go far in determining whether Trump is able to take full advantage
of the complete Republican control of Washington ushered in by his
stunning victory over his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
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At one point, Charles Koch compared the choice between Trump and Clinton
to choosing between cancer or heart attack, and the Koch network did not
spend any money directly boosting Trump or attacking Clinton.
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Trump in turn boasted that the Kochs could not influence him because he
didnt want their money or anything else from them. And he blasted his
rivals for the GOP nomination as puppets of the Kochs. A possible truce
after Trump clinched the nomination broke down quickly, with the two sides
clashing over who rejected a proposed meeting.
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The Koch network, which some believed was discouraging its operatives from
working with Trumps campaign, is now seen by insiders as welcoming the
chance to have allies on the inside of Trumps administration.
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At the same time, though, the network already is signaling that it intends
to oppose aspects of Trumps agenda that run counter to the brothers brand
of small government, low-regulation conservatism, possibly including the
incoming presidents $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan and his
pledge to renegotiate trade deals.
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