WASHINGTON ― President-elect Donald Trump’s numerous controversial and nontraditional stances aren’t just troubling to millions of people around the world. But the degree to which all of Trump’s top-level choices disagree with him is remarkable. Nearly every nominee who testified this week put significant daylight between themselves and the president-elect, including defense secretary nominee James Mattis, CIA director nominee Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.), secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson, attorney general nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and homeland security secretary nominee John Kelly. “Congress has taken an action now that makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding or any other form of torture,” Sessions told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Despite all the apparent differences, a Trump spokesman pledged that the soon-to-president’s Cabinet members would all march to the leader’s beat.

Source: Huffington Post January 12, 2017 21:30 UTC