Donald Trump has tapped billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg to be deputy defense secretary, The Washington Post reports. If confirmed by the Senate, Feinberg would be the No. 2 man in the Pentagon, just below Fox News weekend host (and alleged rapist) Pete Hegseth.
Feinberg is the co-CEO of Cerberus Capital Management, which previously owned private military contractor DynCorp. Cerberus has also invested in defense companies—which is a potential conflict of interest, according to experts.
“Having this revolving door of people who sit on boards of major defense contractors and then cycle in and out of the Pentagon is a problem that did not begin with Trump, but is a problem nonetheless,” Matt Duss executive vice president at the Center for International Policy, told The Washington Post.
