UPDATE: Frank Gaffney has denied these reports
I doubt Grover Norquist is too happy right now. And very few Muslim Brothers are lifting a glass of lukewarm water in celebration.
Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy is now reportedly advising Trump's transition team. The media is reporting this with lots of scare quotes about his views on "Islam". Pretty soon there will be interviews with more preemptively frightened Muslims. Though I imagine even the media will grow tired of faking those after two or three months. The public will have long since tuned out.
Frank Gaffney is a serious expert. And having him actually in a place of influence would matter more than some of the celebrity names being tossed around.
He's made fighting the Muslim Brotherhood into a major priority. And the Brotherhood is a bigger threat than ISIS. And he would be one of the experts who makes the Brotherhood's American bases very nervous indeed.
Gaffney said one of Trump’s most important tasks will be “stopping, designating, rolling up the Muslim Brotherhood in America as the terrorist organization it is.”
“It’s going to be vital to everything else he’s trying to do. We’ve got to stop taking counsel from them, direction from them, and allowing them to operate in our midst subversively, and that’s what’s been going on for some fifty years now,” he said.