Trump Administration Not To Pursue Charges Against Clinton
“The president can’t have a conflict of interest”, Trump told editors and reporters of the New York Times during an hour-long interview.
The real estate mogul said he saw no conflict in his business dealings and being president.
Since winning the election earlier this month, Donald Trump has been active on Twitter, and one of his favorite targets has been the “failing” New York Times, which he claims has unfairly targeted him and his slowly forming administration.
Trump further sought to distance himself from a small, far-right movement known for its embrace of racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric that has celebrated Trump’s election. “I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on health care, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill. I don’t want to hurt them”.
The remarks came as Trump worked to populate his incoming administration, tweeting Tuesday that he’s “seriously considering” naming former GOP presidential rival Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
GREENE: Americans shouldn’t be anxious about – about that – someone saying that they enjoy shooting people? And even if the US President-elect performs U-turns now, these forces risk tearing apart the multicultural fabric of America. “But General Mattis found it to be very less important, much less important than I thought he would say”.
“I’m looking at it very closely”.
The 2016 USA presidential election has already become famous for the scandals surrounding the candidates, such as Clinton’s use of a private email server for official use during her tenure as secretary of state, or Trump’s crude comments about women. February 27 interview on Fox News.
But some of his conservative supporters strongly disagreed.
For Leonard Steinhorn, a communications professor at American University, there is good reason to expect more arm-wrestling between Trump and the news business.
The FBI investigated Clinton’s email practises, concluding in July that her actions were careless but that there were no grounds for bringing charges.
As for global warming, Trump has repeatedly questioned the idea, suggesting at times that it is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to hurt US manufacturers with environmental regulations.
During the campaign, Trump said global warming might simply be a hoax and that he planned to abandon the U.S.’s involvement in an worldwide climate pact reached in Paris previous year.
The remainder of the interview covers a variety of important topics ranging from who Trump has chose to make his central advisers and strategists, what the president-elect believes is America’s place in the world as well as how he will address worldwide relations. “The president can’t have a conflict of interest, ‘” fretted ABC’s Chief investigative Correspondent Brain Ross. And so if the president were to order something that did not comply with the Constitution or which violated the laws of this country, then obviously those in that position could very well take a position that they will not do something that violates the law. The tax filing, first reported Tuesday by The Washington Post, didn’t provide details. Asked about white supremacists inspired by the Trump victory to gather over the weekend in Washington, where some raised their arms like Nazis saluting Hitler, Trump said he condemns them.