NAACP warns Biden over Rahm Emanuel rumors

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The NAACP became the latest progressive group to warn President-elect Joe Biden against adding former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to his Cabinet.

Emanuel left his mayoral post in 2019, deciding not to run for a third term after controversy around his handling of an officer-involved shooting of a Black teenager.

Emanuel, who served as White House chief of staff for President Obama, is reportedly under consideration for transportation secretary or U.S.

trade representative. “As the former Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has shown us that he is not a principled leader or person,” Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP, told the Huffington Post in a statement. “His time in public service proved to be burdened with preventable scandal and.