Reuters
Mr Trump met journalists, Republican party leaders and Jewish activists while in Washington
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has revealed the first members of his foreign policy team.
The advisers include academics and former military officers with expertise on the Middle East and energy issues.
Mr Trump told the Washington Post that he would name more advisers in the coming days.
Several of his advisers have served as experts for other Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney and Ben Carson.
On
Monday, Mr Trump named retired Lt Gen Keith Kellogg, Carter Page,
George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and retired Gen Joseph Schmitz.
The
team is led by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama who has
helped shape Mr Trump's policies, most notably on immigration.
Mr
Trump has come under criticism in recent days over his policy
credentials. When cable news network MSNBC asked him who was advising
him on policy, Mr Trump named himself
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has revealed the first members of his foreign policy team.
The advisers include academics and former military officers with expertise on the Middle East and energy issues.
Mr Trump told the Washington Post that he would name more advisers in the coming days.
Several of his advisers have served as experts for other Republican presidential candidates such as Mitt Romney and Ben Carson.
On
Monday, Mr Trump named retired Lt Gen Keith Kellogg, Carter Page,
George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and retired Gen Joseph Schmitz.
The
team is led by Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama who has
helped shape Mr Trump's policies, most notably on immigration.
Mr
Trump has come under criticism in recent days over his policy
credentials. When cable news network MSNBC asked him who was advising
him on policy, Mr Trump named himself.
Analysis: Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter
Reuters
Senator Sessions (left) is the chairman of Mr Trump's foreign policy team
Donald Trump recently boasted he was his own top adviser on foreign
policy matters, noting that he had a "good instinct for this stuff".
After
more than a month of hints and promises, however, the Republican
presidential front-runner has announced who else has his ear on
international affairs.
The names are hardly a who's who in the
Republican foreign policy firmament - which could be good or bad news
depending on one's perspective.
Mr Trump's positions on trade
deals and military intervention put him decidedly outside the Republican
Party establishment, and this list of advisers will do little to change
that perception.
If Republicans hoped they could bend Mr Trump to party orthodoxy, this may be their latest Trump-related miscalculation.
While some of his team are not well known in Republican academic circles, others are seen as controversial figures.
Gen
Joseph Schmitz resigned from the military in 2005 amid accusations of
misconduct. However, Mr Schmitz was never charged with wrongdoing.
Another adviser, Walid Phares, was criticised when he was named as part of Mr Romney's foreign policy team in 2011.
Muslim
advocacy groups took issue with Mr Phares's close ties to right-wing
Christian militia groups during the Lebanese civil war.
He is an
outspoken critic of Sharia, or Islamic religious law, and has appeared
on Fox News and other conservative media outlets as an expert on the
Middle East.
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