{"id":23168,"date":"2017-02-27T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=23168"},"modified":"2017-02-27T06:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T06:42:43","slug":"donald-trump-nominee-for-navy-secretary-withdraws-candidacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/donald-trump-nominee-for-navy-secretary-withdraws-candidacy.html","title":{"rendered":"DONALD TRUMP NOMINEE FOR NAVY SECRETARY WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:22px;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">DONALD TRUMP NOMINEE FOR NAVY SECRETARY WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>DONALD TRUMP NOMINEE FOR NAVY SECRETARY WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY:-<\/strong> Philip Bilden has withdrawn his nomination as secretary of the US Navy, the Pentagon has said, marking the latest in a series of nominees to remove their names from consideration to serve under President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;This was a personal decision driven by privacy concerns and significant challenges he faced in separating himself from his business interests,&rdquo; Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in a statement, adding that he would soon suggest a new nominee.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&ldquo;While I am disappointed, I understand and respect his decision, and know that he will continue to support our nation in other ways.&rdquo;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Concerns over the ability of Bilden, a prominent businessman and private equity investor, to separate from his vast holdings, many of which are in Hong Kong, clouded his nomination, according to reports.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The secretary of the Navy serves as the chief executive officer for both the Navy and the Marine Corps.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bilden&rsquo;s move came on the heels of similar decisions by US Army secretary nominee Vincent Viola over concerns about his ability to separate from his large business holdings, and labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder, who faced intense scrutiny for his business record and controversies over his personal life. The posts require Senate confirmation.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-size:18px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">And earlier this month, Michael Flynn resigned from the high-profile post of national security advisor as he faced accusations of lying to White House colleagues about his contacts with Russian officials.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span style=\"font-size:8px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Source:-&nbsp;http:\/\/www.siasat.com\/news\/donald-trumps-nominee-navy-secretary-withdraws-candidacy-1140383\/<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/donald-trump-nominee-for-navy-secretary-withdraws-candidacy.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DONALD TRUMP NOMINEE FOR NAVY SECRETARY WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY DONALD TRUMP NOMINEE FOR NAVY SECRETARY WITHDRAWS CANDIDACY:- Philip Bilden has withdrawn his nomination as secretary of the US Navy, the Pentagon has said, marking the latest in a series of nominees to remove their names from consideration to serve under President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14326,10520,6452,10785,2489],"class_list":["post-23168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-donald-trump-nominee-for-navy-secretary-withdraws-candidacy","tag-latest-business-news","tag-local-news","tag-usa-business-news","tag-world-news-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}