President-elect Trump battles back against rumors of transition turmoil

Trump said he had received and taken calls from many foreign leaders despite what the “failing @nytimes” said.

Biden also said he’s not anxious about the new administration dismantling his legacy, despite the President-elect’s very different policy agenda. The official was not authorized to discuss the offer publicly and insisted on anonymity.

Trump’s transition team has spent the week ironing out wrinkles under its newest chairman, Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and the new executive director, Rick Dearborn. Christie had signed the document, but the transition was essentially put on hold until Pence signed it and other paperwork was completed. He then met with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. His time in Congress ingratiated him with many of his peers.

Ever since Donald Trump was announced as the President-elect, there have been massive protests across US. Trump repeatedly referred to him as “Lyin’ Ted”.

“That organization right now is not created to work”, according to the person close to the efforts, who like others involved in the transition, insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the internal process.

The president-elect didn’t mean to mislead the press with the move, said Kellyanne Conway, his former campaign manager. The Trump team has not commented on Giuliani.

Since his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton last week, Trump has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Theresa May and almost three dozen other world leaders by telephone.

“If Trump is serious about seeking unity, the first thing he should do is rescind his appointment of Steve Bannon”, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said.

Hawkish former United Nations ambassador John Bolton and retired general Michael Flynn reportedly are also among those shortlisted for top jobs. Bannon’s news website has peddled conspiracy theories, white nationalism and anti-Semitism. Laura Ingraham, a conservative radio host and author, could join the Trump administration, according to two people who have spoken to the transition team.

Only the first four waves have been named from Trump transition, but others are expected to follow. He expressed confidence that by Trumps Jan. 20 inauguration, “everything will be in good hands.”.

Conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham says “it is a privilege” to be considered for the job of White House press secretary. House Democrats sent a letter asking Trump to rescind the appointment, something Sen. “He’s somebody who’s used to delivering results and producing”.

Miller said the Trump team was working toward setting up a protective pool in the near future but said that “for some in the media, unless they’re actually sitting at the table, seeing if he’s getting the chicken or the fish, that they will never be happy”.

Trump, for his part, has tweeted several times in the last 12 hours that the transition has been orderly.

His transition advisers are still organizing the so-called “landing teams” that will meet to gather information from Obama’s transition helpers inside agencies and departments.

Trump’s calendar has been packed with sit-downs. “In addition to the initial briefings, designated employees across the Administration will work closely with their Agency Review Teams in order to facilitate open communication between the outgoing and incoming Administrations”.

President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday (AEDT) that his transition was not in disarray, assailing news media reports about firings and infighting and insisting in an early-morning Twitter burst that everything was going “so smoothly”. But since election night he has collided head-on with some uncomfortable realities He can’t just behave like a CEO, plucking those people he likes or thinks he can trust from the ether, without knowing how Washington – or in the case of the Secretary of State, the rest of the world – will react to them.

“The greatest vulnerability is about appointments”, Kumar continued, “because one bad appointment that blows up on you sends a team into crisis management, and that takes away from the work that you’re now doing, or the general publicity about what you hope to be doing”.