Warren Stephens, right, Tom Barrack, center, Tilman Fertitta, left, sit for their confirmation hearings (Getty)
Fertitta is a GOP donor and has spoken fondly of Trump’s business sense.
During Trump’s first term, Fertitta told CNBC the president was doing "a fantastic job for the economy."
"Businesses are booming, unemployment is low. He understands what drives this country," Fertitta said in 2018.
Fertitta’s praise of Trump often steers more toward business-focused than overtly-political, as in the CNBC interview.
Trump’s choice of Barrack played into two different aspects of the investor’s history.
Before he was a friend of the future president’s, Barrack served as an undersecretary in the Reagan Interior Department, focusing on energy policy including Middle East oil.
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Houston Rockets Owner, Tilman Fertitta is seen at agame against the Utah Jazz. (Getty Images)
The billionaire will be the eyes and ears for Trump in London, where the president has a cordial relationship, albeit one wherein lies a politically contrasting view of global politics, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the Labour Party.
Stephens has a history of donations to Republican causes and many Arkansas candidates, per OpenSecrets.
Recipients have included former Sens. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Mitt Romney, R-Utah, Bob Dole, R-Kan., ex-Arkansas Govs. Asa Hutchinson and Mike Huckabee, and media executive Steve Forbes’ presidential run in 1995.
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