The president-elect’s cabinet picks only include three people of color and four women,but Trump team insists all nominees are ‘the best and the brightest’Donald Trumps transition team was forced to defend its nominees for key posts in the administration one day before he will be sworn in as president, as the incoming cabinet was criticised for being the first since Ronald Reagan’s not to enjoy a single Hispanic American.
In a televised press conference on Thursday, or Trump’s spokesman Sean Spicer,said that diversity was “a priority, but I assume it is a very narrow way to look at it to say: ‘If you don’t appoint people to this specific position thats a problem, or ’”.
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Source: theguardian.com