Trump business ties that pose conflicts

Trump said he did not want to inflict any more suffering on Hillary Clinton, explaining why he did not intend to investigate Clinton for her handling of classified information or the dealings of the Clinton Foundation.

Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader who convened the weekend gathering sponsored by his National Policy Institute, told the Associated Press he was “disappointed” in Trump’s comments.

The newspaper was one of Trump’s prime targets for ridicule and attack during his campaign rallies. “I do read it”, he said. During a Republican primary debate in February, he added, “I would bring back waterboarding and I would bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding”.

Now: “I think there is some connectivity (between human activity and climate change)”. “I think it would make the job I am doing much easier”.

Earlier this month one of his aides told Reuters the NY businessman was seeking quick ways to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris accord to combat climate change. Presidential candidates and presidents must disclose their finances, but the president is not covered by the principal financial conflict-of-interest law, and the relevant regulations specifically exclude the president. But I’ll tell you what, I was impressed by that answer.

He plans to introduce a resolution next week calling on the president-elect to adopt blind trusts or take equivalent measures to ensure that he complies with the constitution over potential conflicts of interest.

But he said he’s no longer interested in his businesses and will be passing them on to his children.

Spencer said “without an intellectual vanguard” that white nationalists can provide, Trump would have a “meaningless” tenure mired in the “mainstream conservative movement” that he’s railed against.

Trump did not dispute reports that he had used a meeting last week with Nigel Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, to raise his opposition to offshore wind farms. “He has told them he would like to do what he is used to, which is spending time in NY when he can”. The Trump brand, he said, was now “hotter”.

“Journalists are trying to encourage Trump to hold an open news conference, which has been traditional for presidents-elect shortly after their victories”.

“Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy, but if Donald Trump can help her heal then perhaps that’s a good thing”, she said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions”.

Trump said he hoped to develop a “great long-term relationship” with President Obama, with whom he said he had an unexpected rapport.

He also blasted out about a million tweets, excoriating the “failing NY Times” for its coverage of his campaign. (November 12, 2015, CNN interview).

Still Trump has sought after the deeply unorthodox move of appointing a close family member to serve alongside him in the White House.

The police have set up barricades around Trump Tower at 56th Street and 5th Avenue, right in the middle of the city. Bannon, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News, touted the website as “the platform for the alt-right”.

Trump, who left late Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving at his estate in Florida, also continued to work to populate his incoming administration, officially asking GOP presidential rival Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a person familiar with the offer who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss the deliberations publicly. Clifford Levy, the paper’s assistant masthead editor, tweeted out an official response saying it was the president-elect who had tried to change the ground rules by seeking only a private meeting.

“He says “when I look out of my window and I see these windmills, it offends me”, according to Mr Wigmore.

“We know that yesterday’s elections are undoubtedly going to affect the tone of the negotiations, but we know the task we have in front of us remains the same: that we must continue to keep our aim and our focus on the long-term that the countries set for themselves in the Paris Agreement”.

Trump thinks of himself as a peerless dealmaker, and he’s previously described the Israeli-Palestinian peace process as the ultimate deal.