Trump dismissive of Ayotte in meeting with New York Times
“The president can’t have a conflict of interest”, he said. “After meeting with retired Lt. Gen. James Mattis over the weekend, Trump revealed to The Times he was “surprised” and “impressed” by Mattis” answer on waterboarding. Earlier this year, the Trump International Golf Links and Hotel in Ireland cited the threat of sea-level rise in a permit application to build a almost two-mile-long stone wall between it and the Atlantic Ocean.
Shortly after 12:30PM EST, President Trump and the New York Times began the long and arduous task of repairing their relationship together, after being told by NYT publisher Andre Sulzberger Jr., he was about to receive, “the easiest questions you’re going to get this administration”, Trump playfully responded about the “tremendous respect” he had for the newspaper. It’s the strategy big oil allegedly used to cast doubt on climate change: discredit the claims and the claimers, undermine their authority. Instead, Trump told The Times that he would “keep an open mind” about the landmark negotiation. – November 12, 2015, CNN interview. Perhaps the most surprising is that, after months of leading crowds in the chant “Lock her up!”.
On Tuesday morning, Kellyanne Conway, the former pollster who ran the businessman’s campaign during its final, winning stretch, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the incoming president wouldn’t be pushing for further investigations into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, or the doings of the charitable Clinton Foundation.
According to Reuters news agency, a source on Trump’s transition team said 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. “I don’t think anybody takes anything he has to say at face value”.
Comments by President-elect Donald Trump suggesting that he might not pull out of the Paris climate accord after all fueled some hopes that the latest global effort to curb climate change could retain crucially important USA participation.
Trump quoted the line and declared that it was the reason that Obama was “the worst president in US history!”
Trump denied that his campaign had energized the so-called alt-right movement, saying he disavowed it.
Trump has not been inaugurated yet, but he’s already backtracking on some of his most high-profile campaign positions. “Safety is vitally important”, Trump said.
Bannon, who once described the Breitbart website as the “platform for the alt-right”, has insisted that while he is an “economic nationalist”, he isn’t a white nationalist. “It’s just not something I feel strongly about”, Trump said, according to Grynbaum.
Trump repeated that Mattis was being “seriously, seriously considered” for USA secretary of defense.
Trump also made reference to his new Trump International Hotel in Washington, which recently opened blocks from the White House. I’ve gotten to know him well-he’s a greatly talented person who loves people! “The president can’t have a conflict of interest”, Trump said. However, both are still bound by the “emoluments clause” of the Constitution, which bars public officials from accepting payments from foreign governments. “I would be guided by that”, Trump said.