Trump not to pursue probe over Hillary Clinton

“The law’s totally on my side, the president can’t have a conflict of interest”, he told the Times on Tuesday, though he described his company’s financial wellbeing as immaterial compared to the honor of the presidency.

Trump’s children and grandchildren are also receiving official protection, and, with his wife Melania and young son Barron planning on staying in NY at least until the end of the school year, costs will likely remain high. Trump is “strongly considering” Ben Carson, who has expressed he is not interested in serving in a Trump White House.

Trump directed particular ire at CNN and several reporters at other cable networks whom he sees as unreasonably antagonistic toward him, though he did not mention them by name.

In an open letter, 18 news groups asked him to maintain a pool of reporters who cover all of the president’s activities and movements and to have regular briefings with the media.

Donald Trump had spoken out against the newspaper earlier on Twitter.

He also talked about his desire to make a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. There was no “clear evidence” that Clinton or her staff meant to break the law, Comey said.

Leave it all to his kids? According to the newspaper’s spokesperson, Trump was the one who had wanted to change the parameters of the meeting, making the whole thing off the record, which the Times wouldn’t agree to. He told her face-to-face at a presidential debate that if he won the presidency, she’d “be in jail”. A few hours later, the meeting was back on, and Trump had a private meeting with the Times’ publisher before the session with the publisher, editors and reporters.

Donald Trump might not be quite the hardcore climate change denier he pretended to be during the campaign. “Mitch McConnell loves me”, Trump said.

Trump unleashed a stream of early morning tweets assailing the “failing” NY daily for continuing to “cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!”

As for further investigations of Clinton, Trump seemed to waver in a post-election interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes”. “I think I’ve been treated very rough”. Prosecution “would be very, very divisive for the country”, he said. “My inclination for whatever power I have on the matter is to say let’s go forward”.

But on Tuesday, he said he would “keep an open mind” about pulling the United States out of the landmark, multi-national Paris Agreement on climate change – he’d said in the campaign he would yank the US out – and he allowed, “I think there is some connectivity” between human activity and climate changes. Trump’s team tried to change the conditions of the meeting on Monday, asking that it be off the record, but the newspaper refused, said spokeswoman Eileen Murphy. “I wouldn’t even think about hiring him”. “Some, something. It depends on how much”.

“It does seem like an extraordinary breach of protocol for (Trump) to get involved in that decision (to investigate Clinton)”, Glen A. Kopp, a former federal prosecutor in NY, told The Times. He could decline to honor the United States’ commitments. “I didn’t know if I’d like him”. If I thought he was a racist, or alt-right …

Trump admitted that he “might have” raised the subject of wind farms during a recent meeting with Farage, but declined to elaborate.

But it also alarmed many Americans as potentially destabilizing for the US democratic system.

“Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world”, Donald Trump tweeted defensively on Monday, amid a flood of stories about the president-elect’s ongoing involvement in his sprawling business empire, and his countless conflicts of interest in dozens of foreign countries.

Environmentalists looking for slivers of hope might point to a 2009 letter from business leaders to then-President Obama, calling for urgent action on climate change.

Trump’s inability to tell the difference between global climate and weather certain suggests that he didn’t suddenly do a legitimate about face on the issue while visiting the Times’ offices. “I have a great job. Unfortunately. I’d live about 20 years longer if I didn’t'”. “I’ve got a lot of good things to get done”.

Trump said he “can fully understand” why the Times has been getting those complaints but wondered why the paper would be so transparent about it.

Trump defended appointing Steve Bannon, the former president of Breitbart News, to serve as his chief strategist and senior counselor in the White House.