Trump’s mind-boggling conflicts of interest

In the event the audit proves their claim right and Clinton is declared the victor in those three states, she will have more Electoral College votes than Trump which will make her the USA president-elect. The Wall? A great “campaign device”. Trump said he was keeping “an open mind” about climate change, had turned against the idea of torturing terror suspects and no longer wished to pursue the criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton as he had promised to do in their second debate.

There seemed to be something of that at work in Trump’s meeting at the Times. “In theory, I could run my business perfectly and then run the country perfectly”, he recently told the New York Times, signalling his intention to break a presidential tradition meant to counter conflicts of interest.

ON THE CLINTONS: “I’m not looking to hurt them”.

CNN was soliciting the DNC for questions to ask Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Carly Fiorina during their interviews.

I think we would all give thanks for that. We have a lot of trouble. “I’m not a big believer in man-made climate change”.

I am surprised that so many pundits, in their eagerness to trash Trump, ignore that the alternative to Trump is a candidate whose history shows her to have propensities, leanings and character as potentially risky as his. Who ever would have thought that Trump would appoint South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to anything, let alone name her USA ambassador to the United Nations? Trump is quoted as telling the same story about Mattis, adding, “I was surprised [by his answer], because he’s known as being like the toughest guy”.

“And when his audience is a group of people, like us, who haven’t clapped the way he’d like?”

On the issue of torture, Mr. Trump suggested he had changed his mind about the value of waterboarding after talking with Gen. James N. Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general… But now his stated position is that the Clintons are good people and that she has suffered enough, going on to say he wants to concentrate on governing the divided country.

Asked if he had encouraged Farage and those accompanying him to stop a controversial wind farm from obstructing the views at the golf resort, Trump said, “I might have brought it up”. “And I was very impressed by that answer”, Trump said. Trump has also cited winter cold snaps as evidence that climate change is a “con job” and a “myth”.

Trump was also reported to have affirmed in the interview held two weeks after the election that human activity and global warming may be linked. “We’re going to look very carefully”. I have a totally open mind.

A record number of Americans believe the United States is more divided than united, according to a new poll that follows incidents of racial and political confrontation sparked off by Donald Trump’s presidential election victory. I’ll tell you what. “I’m going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and terrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money”, he pledged in February, blowing straight past the First Amendment protections afforded to a free press.

Trump’s team is able to control the media now more than ever, while reporters have no official events on his schedule to cover. Because so few thought he would win, many of those who gathered around him and had his ear were extreme characters. “I think you’ll be happy. I wouldn’t only complain about the Times”. “Because a lot of these countries that we do business with, they make deals with our president, or whoever, and then they don’t adhere to the deals, you know that. I think you’re going to be fine”. On Twitter, he called the “failing” paper “really disgusting,”, “poorly run and managed“, and, of course, “SAD!“. Plenty of world leaders aren’t doing anything about climate change, but they still acknowledge it exists.