Trump calls Emanuel, seeks counsel on presidential transitions

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Even as he was reaffirming Chicago’s status as a sanctuary city and reassuring immigrants, Mayor Rahm Emanuel was counseling President-elect Donald Trump about White House transitions.

The mayor’s office confirmed that Monday, after Politico disclosed that Trump had called Emanuel to get the mayor’s sage advice about the transition of power from one president to another.


Trump has had similar post-election conversations with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

But Emanuel is different. He’s uniquely qualified to give Trump advice after serving as a political operative under former President Bill Clinton and as President Barack Obama’s first White House chief-of-staff.

A source familiar with the call said Trump reached out to Emanuel “in the past two weeks.” During that same period, Emanuel was reassuring anxious immigrants that Chicago “is and always will be” a sanctuary city where undocumented immigrants can access city services and live without fear of police harassment.

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