Rand Paul: GOP Hypocrites If They Support Petraeus for Cabinet

He met the president-elect for an hour in NY on Monday, after which the president-elect sounded positive, tweeting: “Just met with General Petraeus – was very impressed!”.

Once the top US military commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, Petraeus was sentenced to two years’ probation and fined $100,000 last year for the unauthorized removal and retention of classified information.

Petraeus resigned his post as Central Intelligence Agency director in 2012 after his affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell, was made public.

President-elect Donald Trump met on Monday with David Petraeus, the highly decorated but scandal-scarred former military commander who has emerged as a new contender for secretary of state.

Earlier reports suggested that retired General James Mattis was reportedly at the top of Trump’s list for the defense secretary, while former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was tipped as the favored candidate to be homeland security secretary.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn left her meeting with President-elect Donald Trump in New York City on Tuesday morning without offering any details of what was discussed. “He basically walked us around the world”, said Petraeus, who earned acclaim for leading troop surges in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been advising Trump on foreign policy.

He added: “Very good conversation and we’ll see where it goes from here”.

The quest for America s next top diplomat has sparked infighting in the Trump camp, with some loyalists bitterly opposed to Romney, who was one of the president-elect s most outspoken Republican critics during the campaign.

But Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, has said Mr Romney would cause a backlash among his supporters, who back Mr Guiliani.

On Twitter, he singled out Virginia, California and New Hampshire but t here has been no indication of widespread election tampering or voter fraud in those states or any others and Trump aides struggled on Monday to back up their boss’ claim.

And he embarked on a Twitter rant against CNN, complaining about their coverage and retweeting posts insisting that voter fraud did take place on Election Day. Trump tweeted shortly after the meeting. “I know that he’s a self-serving egomaniac who puts himself first, who has a chip on his shoulder, and thinks that he should be President of the United States”, he said about Mr. Romney on Monday.

While it’s true that Trump’s clean victory in the electoral college system, along with holding Congress, gives him a launch pad for his agenda, it’s also true that by losing the popular vote Trump’s operating on weaker populist mandate than he claims.

Jason Miller, a transition team spokesman, said at least one other Cabinet post would be announced in the afternoon.

Romney, a former MA governor, opposed Trump during the presidential campaign, prompting some members of the Trump transition team to criticize his inclusion as a candidate for one of the most prestigious Cabinet posts.

Elias said Clinton would take the same approach in Pennsylvania and MI if Stein were to follow through with recount requests in those states.

He quoted from her concession speech – “We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead” – and he concluded: “So much time and money will be spent – same result!” “I think that’s a potential problem”. He is reportedly among several candidates to succeed Secretary of State John Kerry when Trump is sworn in as the nation’s 45th president in January.

Whether it’s integrating drones into the national airspace, deploying self-driving cars or “some other new technology, she’s not going to be especially inclined to second guess the industry when they say that this will be safe”, said Thomas McGarity, a University of Texas law professor and author of “Freedom to Harm”, a book about the Labor Department that includes Chao’s tenure.