Donald Trump Softens Stand on Clinton, Climate Change, Other Key Issues

President-elect Donald Trump’s visit to The New York Times is to consist of a private meeting with the publisher followed by an on-the-record session with Times journalists. But I’ll tell you what, I was impressed by that answer.It’s not going to make the kind of a difference that maybe a lot of people think.

Trump at first abruptly canceled the meeting, accusing the organization of changing the ground rules. “Four weeks ago, they weren’t in love with me”. “Not nice”, tweeted Trump.

Critics say Bannon, a former head of the conservative Breitbart News, had made the website a forum for the alt-right, a loose grouping that rejects mainstream politics and includes neo-Nazis, white supremacists and anti-Semites.

Former Washington, D.C., schools chief Michelle Rhee says she’s not seeking a job in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

“And I think Hillary Clinton still has to face the fact that a majority of Americans don’t find her to be honest or trustworthy”, she added.

As he plans his presidential transition, Trump remains involved in several of his private enterprises.

“Breitbart is just a publication”, he said. They cover stories just like you cover stories.

Then: “No paper is more corrupt than the failing New York Times. It’s a pretty big thing”.

That way, the Trump family would not have to unwind their impossibly complex business investments and entanglements – but the public would have some protection against corruption and conflicts of interest in the White House. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly”.

Even though Trump aide Kellyanne Conway briefly talked to reporters about the meeting afterward, media participants were constrained from talking publicly about it.

So when he met with The New York Times, the entire political world was watching. Apparently they’ve mended fences, at least for now. He predicted his supporters would not be disappointed because the Trump administration would “save our country” in other ways. But he added: “I would like to do something”.

That’s the right move-for the country and his Presidency.

One part of what Mr. Trump said is true that it would be divisive but even then he could’ve left the matter in the hands of congress and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet tried to insinuate that Trump “bears responsibility for the growing prominence of groups espousing white nationalist viewpoints”, according to Politico.

– Said he thinks there’s “some connectivity” between humans and climate change, a reversal from his campaign trail declaration that man-made climate change is a hoax. At a conference this weekend in Washington, adherents used racist innuendo and arm salutes that resembled those of the Nazis. The man in the video is Richard Spencer, widely credited with creating the term alt-right. “Trump said in an interview after the election, however, that prosecuting Clinton would not be a priority”.

“It’s not a group I want to energise”. Adviser Conway signaled to congressional Republicans earlier Tuesday that they should abandon their years of vigorous probes of Clinton’s email practices and her actions at the time of the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya.