VIDEO: President-Elect Donald Trump To Assemble Cabinet In Coming Days

By  //  November 12, 2016

ABOVE VIDEO: Trump’s transition team considers Cabinet appointments.

(FOX NEWS) – Donald Trump ran his winning presidential campaign with the help of a tight-knit circle of close advisers. He won’t have that luxury once he takes control of the federal government.

Instead of an intimate cadre of family members and loyal aides, Trump will need to expand his circle – choosing over a dozen Cabinet secretaries, filling out a team of senior strategists to run his White House and making thousands of other lesser appointments.

The speculation over who will compose that team heated up the moment Trump was declared the victor in Tuesday’s election. Prospects for key posts have given maddeningly mixed messages, some expressing interest and others disavowing it.

Trump and his transition team, meanwhile, already are hard at work. Trump, after meeting with President Obama in Washington, tweeted Friday:

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