Trump distances himself from far right, continues to attack the media
That’s a positive step toward moving past the extraordinary divisiveness of a bitter campaign and its residual resentments.
During the presidential debate, Trump had said he would instruct his Attorney General to get a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton. He called her “Crooked Hillary”. “They are reopening the case into her criminal and illegal conduct.”.
“He’s always been irrelatively liberal, he’s certainly more liberal than the normal Republican and in many ways he’s much more liberal than Hillary Clinton”, he noted.
Supporters of Mr Trump regularly chanted “Lock her up!” during the former reality star’s campaign rallies, as well as wearing specially made t-shirts and badges showing Democrat Hillary Clinton behind bars.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Conway was referring only to congressional investigations, or additionally to the Justice Department.
“If Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that’s a good thing”, Ms. Conway said.
President-elect Donald Trump said there may be a connection between human activity and climate change, asserted conflict of interest laws don’t apply to a president, said the United States shouldn’t be a “nation builder” and said he never meant to energize white supremacists with his campaign. When asked whether he would pull out of the Paris agreement, as he had promised to, he said he would take “a very serious look” at it and “see how much this is costing”. The woman who posted this picture to her Facebook said, “I told her I voted for her, that she meant and means a lot”.
Over the past few months the paper also called out Trump’s fabrications, aggressively investigated his real estate deals and leaked his partial tax return, with Trump even threatening a lawsuit at one point.
Now: “I think there is some connectivity”. You could go either way. “I want to focus on all of these other things that we’ve been talking about”.
And it may not be the only position Mr Trump is backing down on.
President-elect Donald Trump canceled a meeting at the New York Times on Tuesday and blasted the publication on Twitter hours before reversing himself and agreeing to an extensive interview during a lunchtime meeting.
The video led to activists calling for Mr Trump to condemn the actions.
“My agenda will be based on a simple core principle: putting America first”. “I don’t want to move back”.
But Conway indicated Trump would frown on that.
Meanwhile, the President-Elect has condemned a white nationalist group that cheered his election win.
Trump condemned an alt-right conference in Washington over the weekend where some members performed a Hitler salute and yelled: “Hail Trump!” after a speech about white nationalism.
In a sign of another battle with the media to come, Trump also shrugged off the need for a constant press pool covering him, the people said, though he did not delve into specifics. The man in the video is Richard Spencer, widely credited with creating the term alt-right.