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Donald Trump Jr is main an effort to compile an inventory of people that could be banned from serving in a second Trump administration, in response to a report.

On the record are folks related to Project 2025, first-term staffers who resigned in protest after the Capitol riot on January 6, and people seen as missing loyalty to former President Donald Trump, two ex-Trump officers informed Politico.

The record is akin to the “enemies list” compiled by staffers within the administration of President Richard Nixon. It was a rundown of the Republican’s high political opponents put collectively by White House Counsel Charles Colson and written by particular assistant to the president George Bell.

The record being compiled by the Trump transition crew signifies {that a} second Trump administration is more likely to eschew the institution Republicans who, at occasions, thwarted Trump’s agenda throughout his first time period. The Trump crew seems to be aiming to sidestep the turnover and leaking that occurred throughout the first stint.

Trump Jr, the honorary chair of the transition crew, is in command of placing collectively the record, an ex-Trump official informed Politico.

“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” one other former official informed the outlet.

But the mission has the backing of greater than 100 conservative organizations and it stays unclear if a potential Trump administration within the occasion of an election victory would be capable to maintain the ban.

Myron Ebell was in command of the Environmental Protection Agency transition for Trump in 2016. He informed Politico that conserving such an inventory was a “good idea.”

“During the first Trump transition, I had a typewritten sheet, which I did not have electronically, which I gave to people in the personnel shop called, ‘Over my dead body,’” he added. “The list kept getting longer as I thought of more people.”

Some who labored within the George W Bush administration had been included on the record, with Ebell calling them “soft green Republicans.” He mentioned that others on the record had been in opposition to Trump, even when they didn’t say so in public.

Ebell informed Politico that banning folks related to Project 2025 is a “political tactic” and never a “permanent ban.”

He famous that such a ban might take away “many highly qualified pro-Trump people” from competition. Each new administration has to nominate about 4,000 folks to fill federal roles.

Trump marketing campaign communications director Steven Cheung informed the outlet that the previous president introduced a transition “leadership group” to “initiate the process of preparing for what comes after the election and will choose the best people for his Cabinet.”

Previously this month, the Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick informed the New York Post {that a} second Trump White House wouldn’t be appointing people from the conservative coverage platform Project 2025, calling it “radioactive.”

Trump himself has been making an attempt to distance himself from the mission as Democrats have been utilizing to argue that his insurance policies are extra excessive than some might imagine.

Lutnick additionally informed the Financial Times that potential appointees must show “fidelity” and “loyalty” to the previous president and his agenda.

Trump Jr informed The Wall Street Journal that the transition crew was trying to stop “the bad actors from getting in.”

“There’s a lot of people that put the R next to their name, but then they do whatever the swamp wants, because they’re looking for the next consulting gig or something like that,” he added. “We’re doing a lot with vetting. My job is to prevent those guys, more so than actually picking people,” Trump Jr claimed.

One one that labored on the 2016 Trump transition informed Politico“It’s not uncommon in DC to have a naughty and nice list.”