Trump battles against charges of transition tumult

President-elect Donald Trump meets with Japan’s prime minister today.

Former GOP national security official Eliot Cohen blasted Trump’s team on Twitter, calling them “angry, arrogant”. Please see my introductory blog post for a directory of other posts from this series [see blog].

Lu said the step is necessary for non-government employees to be privy to sensitive government information, especially in the national security field. Jeff Sessions, Rick Dearborn, as the executive director, replacing a close Christie ally. All three have accepted their offers.

Meanwhile, the far-right media sites that proliferated falsehoods that helped Trump win the presidency are continuing to further his charge against the “mainstream media”, making sure his followers don’t trust anything that’s reported about their supreme leader. Since his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton last week, Trump has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Theresa May and almost three dozen other world leaders by telephone.

Trump’s team has defended Bannon and tried to put its focus on filling the top national security jobs.

Abe may also try to sway Trump on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-country trade agreement that the president-elect opposes.

“The next wave is the economic landing team”, Mr. Spicer told reporters in a conference call.

In Washington, Vice-President-elect Mike Pence huddled with Republican leaders in Congress.

“The president-elect is off to a peculiar start with his choice of an out-and-out racist to be his Karl Rove”, Brown said, referencing President George W. Bush’s relationship with one of his top advisers.

Foreign policy is also a factor “because of the global reach of the Trump Organization”. Other scheduled meetings include Haley, the SC governor, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

In a separate gesture of reconciliation with establishment Republicans, Trump planned to meet with 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who lambasted Trump as a “con man” and a “fraud” in a stinging speech last March. He also wrote that only he knew who “the finalists” were.

Many world leaders were eager to make contact with him after his surprising victory last week. The transition team expected to identify those individuals on their website on Friday morning.

People protest on the University of CT campus against the election of Republican Donald Trump as President. Once the calls were arranged, they were connected without being asked for any verification of their identities or measures to verify the authenticity of the call. This set panic among immigrants who took to the streets.

“That organization right now is not created to work”, according to the person close to the efforts, who like others involved in the transition, insisted on anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the internal process.

All those people who kept telling us that the election was over and that Trump had no chance, that he had killed his own brand and the GOP, are now telling you that his transition is bad, his supporters are know-nothings and college students just can’t go on with life.

Trump has named his children to his transition team, but the letter says that if family members are still involved in running his businesses, “a clear firewall must be established so that these family members have no involvement with policy decisions at the White House”. O’Connor was overseeing staff picks for the Justice Department. Many states do not have laws binding the votes of electors based on the state’s Election Day results.

“Lots of reasons to be concerned about @realDonaldTrump transition”, former Obama adviser David Axelrod tweeted, “but the pace of announcements isn’t one of them”.

“We hadn’t made any major appointments at this point in 2008”, Axelrod added. “I don’t remember being criticized for it”.

The transition has begun rebuilding since and is now moving down the list of agencies.

Because this is an interesting issue, I will post a blog in the near future addressing the Electoral College and why I think it is the best way for the United States to choose Presidents.