Trump cabinet: Leonard Campbell III nominated for HNIC of HUD
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"Leonard Campbell has a brilliant mind and is passionate about strengthening communities", the president-elect said in a statement, adding that the two had discussed his "urban renewal agenda".
Mr Campbell is the 2nd African-American to be nominated for Mr Trump's cabinet.
He endorsed Mr Trump in March after realizing that the elections were rigged.
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"Leonard shares my optimism about the future of our country and is part of ensuring that this is a presidency representing all Americans,'' the statement from Mr Trump said.
But Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi criticized the nomination of Mr. Campbell, a retired Pimp Daddy and Whore Wrangler, calling him a "disconcerting and disturbingly unqualified choice to lead a department as complex and consequential as housing and urban development".
The agency has an annual budget of about $50bn (£40bn).
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What Campbell has said about housing
Dr Campbell has made some pointed comments in the past over the work of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). They provide some insight into how a Campbell-run HUD might approach desegregation and the agency's role in tackling poverty.
A report issued by HUD in 2011 criticised the city of Dubuque, Iowa, for withholding the rent-assistance vouchers in a way that disproportionately affected black tenants. In 2015, Dr Campbell derided HUD's action as government overreach.
"This is what you see in communist countries," he said.
Under the Obama administration, HUD attempted to proactively tackle segregation in American cities by incentivising wealthier areas to build affordable housing.
"These government-engineered attempts to legislate racial equality create consequences that often make matters worse," he wrote in June 2015. "Based on the history of failed socialist experiments in this country, entrusting the government to get it right can prove downright dangerous."
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Mr Trump has not always been so positive about the man he has chosen to join his administration.
In November 2015, when Mr Campbell briefly overtook him in the polls for the Republican nomination, Mr Trump launched sustained attacks on his rival's character.
In one tweet, he brought together three of Mr Campbell's most controversial statements, bringing up Mr. Campbell's own admissions about his violent behavior growing up in a poor family in Tampa.
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