James Mattis, Trump's pick for Secretary of Defense and perhaps the most qualified selection in the group, has earned notoriety as a member of the board of directors of Theranos, a company now famous for fraudulent claims on its medical tests.
The recruitment process is officially handled by the culture department, under new secretary of state Savid Javid, which in May began canvassing industry opinion on a group of the most qualified potential candidates.
That was what he felt most qualified to provide when talking to groups about Clinton.
"We are trying to ensure that we start having a process whereby we can choose the most qualified person, regardless of nationality," said Amar Bhattacharya, the director of the Group of 24, an umbrella group of developing countries.
Garland is one of the most qualified judges in the country, and Democrats and progressive groups have fallen behind Obama's choice.
He said the group had decided that Mr. Ferrer was the most qualified candidate in a crowded field.
"While ABC of AL traditionally supports Republican pro-business candidates, we feel Judge Vance is the most qualified candidate for the chief justice of the Supreme Court," Tim Hightower, a member of the group's executive committee, wrote in an e-mail.
Cuban-American groups, however, are lobbying hard for Mr. Reich, calling him the most qualified assistant secretary in decades and warning of political consequences if he is not nominated.
Is there anyone, other than Donald Trump himself, who would think that such a group of wise men--and now women--would choose Trump as the most qualified?
