Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump finally named one of his foreign policy advisers: himself.
“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things,” Trump said during a telephone interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Wednesday morning.
The billionaire businessman then cited his 2000 book The America We Deserve, in which he references Osama bin Laden prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
“I know what I’m doing, and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to a lot of people, and at the appropriate time I’ll tell you who the people are,” Trump said.
“But I speak to a lot of people, but my primary consultant is myself, and I have a good instinct for this stuff,” he added.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., announced this month that he would chair Trump’s national security advisory team, but that has been the only public announcement by Trump to list his foreign policy advisers after months of promises of more information.
And while Trump has not named his team, he has tallied some national security endorsements. Although defense experts say they’re not big names.
Trump now leads Ted Cruz by well over 200 delegates and is more than halfway toward the 1,237 delegates that would give him the GOP nomination outright.
