Former President Donald Trump has a key ally of his son-in-law Jared Kushner in mind to serve as White House chief of staff if he wins the election, according to a report.
Right-wing attorney Brooke Rollins, director of the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), is being floated to close Trump allies, The New York Times reported Friday. Rollins previously headed up the Domestic Policy Council of the United States in Trump's final year of office.
Trump, according to Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, "has said that he thinks Ms. Rollins would make 'a great chief of staff' and that 'she’s tall' and 'she’s got the look,' among other attributes."
Rollins, for her part, says she “had zero conversations with President Trump or his team about this,” but House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has agreed he would approve of her candidacy.
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All of this, noted the report, comes as the AFPI — home to Trump administration alumni such as Hogan Gidley, Larry Kudlow and Chad Wolf — has spent a few years preparing policy for a second Trump term.
Chair Linda McMahon and people involved with the institute, including Rollins, have "taken responsibility for the policy side of the transition effort," the Times reported.
Trump’s friend and billionaire CEO Howard Lutnick is "overseeing the personnel side of the transition operation," according to the Times.
AFPI has been called by some observers "the Other Project 2025" — a reference to the infamous transition project by the Heritage Foundation that calls for dramatic changes to presidential power, the civil service, and all manner of public programs in the name of a far-right agenda.
Trump's final chief of staff in his first term was Mark Meadows, who has been accused of being intimately involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election and faces criminal charges in two states.
