There’s No Such Thing as a Presidential Conflict of Interest

With the less defiant Donald Trump moving closer to the White House, he could be seen mellowing down as the US President-elect has in one of his latest decisions decided not to prosecute Hillary Clinton in the e-mail case.

But it’s too early to rejoice. On Monday, he upbraided broadcast news executives and on-air journalists in an off-the-record session that quickly leaked to other media.

But he will hate the final paragraph: “Ronald Reagan used to say that in dealing with the Soviet Union, the right approach was to ‘trust, but verify.’ For now, that’s also the right approach to take with Mr. Trump”.

A source on Trump’s transition team told Reuters earlier this month that the NY businessman was seeking quick ways to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change. Though members are celebrating his victory, he said, “It’s not a group I want to energize”. Trump told The Times that he won’t do anything “to hurt the Clintons” and that his former rival, who he once referred to as a “nasty woman”, doesn’t need to go through a lengthy investigation as she recovers from the election loss. “Some, something. It depends on how much”. -Mexican border to stop illegal immigration, tweaking one of his signature campaign promises.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe used his first meeting with Donald Trump to get a feel for the USA president-elect.

As far back as 2012 he had tweeted: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive”. In a speech in May, he declared that during his first 100 days in office, “we’re going to cancel the Paris climate agreement and stop all payments of USA tax dollars to United Nations global warming programs”.

Trump declined to issue a statement after the meeting as originally planned.

■ When Trump was asked whether he condemned an alt-right conference over the weekend in Washington, where some attendees raised their arms in a Hitler-like salute, he said, “I disavow and condemn them”.

And in the days immediately following the election, Trump began actively seeking ways to jump the Paris Agreement as quickly as possible, a source from his transition team told Reuters.

He also blasted out about a million tweets, excoriating the “failing NY Times” for its coverage of his campaign. He back-peddled on his position to more widely waterboard terrorism suspects.

Clinton’s use of the private email server based in her NY home played a central role in the campaign, with surveys showing that many voters doubted Clinton’s explanations about the tens of thousands of emails she sent or received while she was the country’s top diplomat and questioned her trustworthiness and honesty.

But Tribe said such a scenario is highly unlikely because it would probably be opposed by President Barack Obama and Clinton herself, both of whom have made such a huge point of accepting Trump as the president-elect.

Those aren’t bad things by themselves, of course. The city will have to keep coming up with that money after the inauguration, because Trump’s wife Melania and 10-year-old son Barron have announced they will keep living there, at least until the end of the school year.

Doing either means that Trump is the insubstantial huckster he has always been accused of being. But he acknowledged that he had a “different view than everybody else”, a reference to his assertions that the United States should work with Russian Federation in combating the Islamic State and not worry about forcing out the Syrian president, Bashar Assad. He wants nothing more than for his audience to be impressed.