Trump Cabinet excites his voters: 'We have to trust him'
As each Cabinet announcement draws fresh criticism of the wealth, connections or opinions of Donald Trump's latest appointees, many Americans who voted for him say the president-elect is doing what he promised to do: draining the swamp.
[...] while some Trump supporters balk at ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson's close ties with Russia's Vladimir Putin, they say they will trust Trump's judgment about his secretary of state nominee.
The Associated Press interviewed Trump voters about his Cabinet picks and other postelection revelations, such as a CIA assessment that Russia interfered in the November election on Trump's behalf.
Some Cabinet choices have been called into question for their lack of experience, their extraordinary wealth and their past relationships with the departments they are to lead.
Much of the criticism has come from Democrats, but experts, past government officials and some Republicans have also raised doubts.
In Sandy Hook, Kentucky, Wesley Lewis applauded Trump's decision to nominate three retired generals for top jobs:
James "Mad Dog" Mattis to head the Pentagon, John Kelly for the Department of Homeland Security and Michael Flynn as national security adviser.
Trump made that a major focus of his campaign in August, when he started talking about the coal miners, and the coal trains are running, man.
Eileen Barlow, a 56-year-old small business owner in Naperville, Illinois, welcomes charter school advocate Betsy DeVos as education secretary.
Zbichorski thinks Trump will need "more tact and professionalism" when he takes office, and she worries he'll tweet an insult about a leader of another country and escalate international tensions.