Donald Trump picks ex-NFL star Scott Turner to serve as housing and urban development secretary
By DANIEL MATTHEWS and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 01:20, 23 November 2024 | Updated: 03:42, 23 November 2024

Donald Trump has nominated former NFL cornerback Scott Turner to become his new secretary for housing and urban development.

Turner, 52, spent nearly a decade in the NFL with the then-Washington Redskins, the then-San Diego Chargers and the Denver Broncos.

During Trump's first term in office, Turner served as the First Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC).

'I am pleased to nominate Scott Turner, from the Great State of Texas, as the Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD),' the president-elect said in a statement.

'Scott will work alongside me to Make America Great Again for EVERY American. Congratulations to Scott, his wonderful wife, Robin, and his son, Solomon!'

Trump praised Turner's work during his first term, claiming he 'helped to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country's most distressed communities.'


Donald Trump has nominated Scott Turner to be secretary for housing and urban development


The 52-year-old played for Washington, San Diego and Denver between 1995 and 2004

Turner, the highest-ranking black figure Trump has selected for his administration so far, was picked in the seventh round of the 1995 NFL draft.

After three seasons in Washington, he joined the Chargers. Turner left San Diego in 2002, before joining the Broncos a year later.

The Richardson native played his final season in the NFL in 2003-04. He later served as a representative for the 33rd District in the Texas House of Representatives.

Turner's nomination comes just days after Trump picked billionaire WWE mogul Linda McMahon to be secretary of the Education Department.

McMahon led the Small Business Administration during Trump’s initial term from 2017 to 2019 and twice ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the US Senate in Connecticut.

McMahon, who built the WWE alongside her estranged husband Vince, is seen as a relative unknown in education circles, though she has expressed support for charter schools and school choice.

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Donald Trump picks ex-NFL star Scott Turner to serve as housing and urban development secretary.

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He nominated a black man, you are not told the man is a Republican and a conservative. He just made a brilliant move.

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Another wonderful pick by President Donald Trump.

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Trump finally got around to nominating someone with no experience for the one “Black job” in his cabinet, Scott Turner for secretary of HUD. Ben Carson, who also had no experience, served in the post during Trump’s first administration. How come Housing and Urban Development is the only top level cabinet position he gives to a Black person?

Scott Turner is an impressive choice. Congratulations to him.

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A.F. Branco Cartoon – Most Americans are thankful for Trump’s victory this Thanksgiving. Now, on to the hard work of turning the country away from the darkness of the past 4 years of Biden and the Marxist tyrannical policies. We don’t seek revenge but are seeking justice retribution against the Biden DOJ and the Deep State for any illegal activities they may have committed in their effort to destroy Trump and our democracy.

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There is hope that our Republic will be brought back from the cusp of its erasure.

There is hope that justice will be meted out, individual rights will be restored, and the injustice that has sought to intimidate and ruin citizens will be challenged and corrected by the very Rule of Law that was suborned.

In the midst of national joy and good vibes, one hears the clamor of the ill-contented Evil. These grumblers do not applaud citizens deciding their nation's destiny. These think only the "Sanctified State Elite" knows what is best for the individual. These project their evil. Their censorious howls betray their guilt. (Read More…)

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Scott Turner, a motivational speaker and former NFL player, to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Turner previously directed the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council. If confirmed, he would oversee a $70 billion budget and 8,000 employees, with plans to reverse Biden-era fair housing policies, slash funding, and focus on mental health and substance abuse in addressing homelessness.

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Trump taps longtime ally Kash Patel to lead FBI — putting Christopher Wray on chopping block
By Caitlin Doornbos and Anna Young
Published Nov. 30, 2024 Updated Nov. 30, 2024, 10:11 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has selected Kash Patel to lead the FBI, closing one of the last remaining presidentially appointed positions available two months before taking office — and putting current bureau boss Christopher Wray’s tenure on the chopping block before his term expires.

“Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Saturday night.

“He played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution,” he continued.


Trump tapped longtime loyalist Kash Patel to head the FBI.
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“This FBI will end the growing crime epidemic in America, dismantle the migrant criminal gangs, and stop the evil scourge of human and drug trafficking across the Border. Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI.”

The announcement comes after Trump spent years at odds with Wray, who he nominated to head the bureau in August 2017 after firing James Comey.

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Wray invoked the president-elect’s wrath over what Trump, 78, viewed as political investigations against him, including the Mar-a-Lago raid, which he was later indicted for allegedly retaining classified documents, and then questioning whether Trump had been struck by a bullet at the Butler, Pa., rally where a would-be assassin shot him in the ear.

Trump claimed the FBI director’s remarks proved that “he knows nothing about the terrorists and other criminals pouring into our Country at record levels.”

The once and future president has also accused Wray of “lying to Congress” about his awareness of President Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline.

Wray, whose 10-year term doesn’t expire until 2027, would need to resign or be fired to create a vacancy for Patel to fill.


FBI Director Christopher Wray has invoked Trump’s wrath over what he sees as politicized investigations.
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“Every day, the men and women of the FBI continue to work to protect Americans from a growing array of threats,” the FBI said in a statement to CBS.

“Director Wray’s focus remains on the men and women of the FBI, the people we do the work with, and the people we do the work for.”

Longtime loyalist

Patel brings a wealth of experience as a former public defender and later attorney for the US Justice Department’s national security division and served in multiple intelligence and national security roles in the president-elect’s first administration.

He’d been considered a frontrunner among the MAGA camp, who hope he can shake up the bureau and reverse its record of targeting conservatives in the Trump era.

The New York native is known for his deep loyalty to Trump — which has made him a target of the left despite serving as a National Security Council official, senior adviser to the acting Director of National Intelligence, and later, chief of staff to the acting United States secretary of defense.


Wray fell out of favor with Trump over the Mar-a-Lago raid and other actions.
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Patel, who will have to earn Senate confirmation to become FBI director, was one of the leading Republicans who opposed the investigation into Trump and Russian interference in 2016, long opposing government overreach in how its federal agents surveil Republicans.

He has written about the need to dismantle the Justice Department and do an overhaul of the intelligence agencies, including the FBI, by firing their “top ranks” and prosecuting “to the fullest extent of the law” anyone who “in any way abused their authority for political ends.”

“[T]he FBI has become so thoroughly compromised that it will remain a threat to the people unless drastic measures are taken,” Patel wrote in his book, “Government Gangsters,” which Trump lauded as a “blueprint” for his next term.

Speaking on his podcast Thursday, Patel said Trump “can expose the documents that these folks have written for decades, allowing [their] corrupt activities.

“He’s going to come in there and maybe give them the Epstein list, and maybe the P. Diddy list,” Patel added, referring to Jeffrey Epstein’s sinister sex trafficking ring and disgraced music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who is charged in a sweeping racketeering and sex trafficking indictment.


“Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI,” President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday.
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That loyalty has enraged Democrats, with countless talking heads appearing on left-leaning networks to disparage him.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe cautioned against Patel, claiming on CNN Thursday that “no part of the FBI’s mission is safe with Kash Patel in any position of leadership in the FBI.”

“It’s inconceivable to me that an outsider with no experience in the organization, no knowledge of the work and the scope of authority that’s involved there could perform adequately,” seethed McCabe, who Trump boldly canned from his position just 26 hours before his 2018 retirement.

McCabe butted heads with the 45th president over the FBI’s Trump-Russia collusion probe, pursued the debunked Steele dossier and was fired as acting director of the bureau for leaking sensitive case information to a journalist.


Kash Patel has been a longtime Trump ally.

Those warnings initially caused some concern over his confirmability in media reports, but Patel’s supporters point to his long list of credentials within the Justice Department and national security realm as proof that he is best suited for the job.

“Despite media reports that there are concerns on confirmation, he’s accomplished in counterterrorism, defense, intelligence and the law,” one source close to the transition team told The Post. “Just look at his resume; this is pretty solid person for this job.”

Patel won the early support of Trump confidant and soon-to-be co-head of the new administration’s Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk, who issued his support in a post to X said that suggested Patel for the role after he suggested there should be a full-time “declassification office” to increase transparency in the federal government.

“Good idea,” replied the Tesla, SpaceX and X owner.

Still, the pick of the sometimes controversial figure may send shockwaves through Washington, which last week seethed at Trump’s selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general before removing himself from consideration following meetings on Capitol Hill.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell had also been considered for the FBI director slot.

The Post has reached out to the Trump-Vance transition team for comment.

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