Donald Trump Jr is leading an effort to compile a list of people who would be barred from serving in a second Trump administration, according to a report.

On the list are people linked to Project 2025, first-term staffers who resigned in protest after the Capitol riot on January 6, and those seen as lacking loyalty to former President Donald Trump, two former Trump officials said. Policy.

The list is similar to the “enemies list” compiled by staff members of President Richard Nixon’s administration. It was a summary of the Republican’s main political opponents, compiled by White House counsel Charles Colson and written by special assistant to the President George Bell.

The list compiled by the Trump transition team indicates that a second Trump administration will likely avoid establishment Republicans who at times thwarted Trump’s agenda during his first term. The Trump team seems to want to avoid the turnover and leaks that occurred during the first term.

Trump Jr., honorary chairman of the transition team, is responsible for putting together the list, a former Trump official said. Policy.

“It is clear that the people working on the 2025 project are on a blacklist,” another former official told the media.

But the project has the support of more than 100 conservative organizations and it remains unclear whether a possible Trump administration, in the event of an electoral victory, would be able to maintain the ban.

Myron Ebell was in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency transition for Trump in 2016. He said Policy that keeping such a list was a “good idea”.

“During the first Trump transition, I had a typed sheet, which I didn’t have electronically, that I gave to the people in the staff store called ‘Over My Dead Body,’” he added. “The list kept growing as I thought of more people.”

Some who worked in George W. Bush’s administration were on the list, with Ebell calling them “green and soft Republicans.” He said others on the list were against Trump, even if they hadn’t said so publicly.

Ebell said Policy that banning people linked to Project 2025 is a “political tactic” and not a “permanent ban”.

He noted that such a ban could exclude “many highly qualified pro-Trump individuals” from competition. Each new administration must appoint approximately 4,000 people to fill federal functions.

Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung told the outlet that the former president announced the creation of a transition “leadership group” to “start the process of preparing for what comes after the election and choosing the best people for his office.”

Earlier this month, Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick told the New York Post that a second Trump White House would not appoint people from the conservative policy program Project 2025, calling it “radioactive.”

Trump himself has tried to distance himself from the plan, with Democrats arguing that his policies are more extreme than some realize.

Lutnick also told the Financial Times that potential appointees should demonstrate “fidelity” and “loyalty” to the former president and his agenda.

Trump Jr said The Wall Street Journal that the transition team was trying to keep “bad actors out.”

“A lot of people put the R next to their name, but then they do what the swamp wants, because they’re looking for the next consulting job or something like that,” he added. “We do a lot of monitoring. My job is to prevent these guys, more than to select people,” Trump Jr. said.

One person who worked on the 2016 Trump transition said: Policy“It’s not uncommon in DC to have a naughty and nice list.”