Trump then and now: How the President-elect has changed since his election
Trump hasn’t held a news conference in the 14 days since he won the election – the longest period of silence from a president-elect in decades.
Consider the Cabinet announcements this week, dramatically at odds with those of the previous week.
Critics will no doubt dissect these choices, including the curious fit between the resumes and the new duties of Haley and Carson.
Trump responded that he “can fully understand that”, but he wondered why the paper would announce that complaints were up.
President-elect Donald Trump continued his beatdown of the abusively biased, alt-radical left mainstream media this week, calling out the press that openly colluded with the Clinton campaign and tried to undermine his candidacy every single step of the way.
So far, Trump’s picks for vice president, Central Intelligence Agency director and national security advisor had all called for reintroduction of torture tactics to the upcoming Trump administration’s counterterrorism toolbox. Trump also introduced his old pal Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of NY, as a potential secretary of state. – Trump the president-elect now believes it is time to heal the nation and put prosecutorial attacks against Clinton behind us.
Bannon and Breitbart have made a crusade of prosecuting Clinton, and Giuliani has been on the anti-Clinton bus for many years.
“Trump didn’t say [NBC reporter] Katy Tur by name, but talked about an NBC female correspondent who got it wrong, then he referred to a terrible network correspondent who cried when Hillary lost who hosted a debate – which was Martha Raddatz, who was also in the room”.
While the Clinton camp has been strangely silent, Green party candidate Jill Stein has raised enough money, close to $1.3 million, in order to get recounts in the key states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
Trump said he hoped to develop a “great long-term relationship” with President Barack Obama, with whom he said he had an unexpected rapport.
He also criticized Rep. Joe Heck of Nevada, who vacillated over supporting Trump after an 11-year-old recording surfaced in which Trump bragged in lewd terms about grabbing women without their consent.
The president-elect’s remarks in an interview with The New York Times were tweeted out by Times reporters.
The interview demonstrated the volatility in Trump’s positions.
Trump is partially right, in that statutory conflict of interest laws do not apply to the president and vice president.
For his part, Trump offered up several gestures of accommodation.
The website outlines the Trump administration’s plans to “Make America Great”, including changes to tax, trade, education, health care and veteran policies, among others.
If they can succeed in denying Trump the 270 electoral votes needed to win, the decision would then go to the House of Representatives, where delegations of representatives from each state would decide whom to support. “Some, something. It depends on how much”, Trump said Tuesday when asked about the relationship between human activity and climate change, adding that he has “an open mind” regarding USA participation in climate agreements with other countries. What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided, and that’s one thing I did see, big league.
About his campaign promise to jail Hillary Clinton, Trump said he doesn’t want to “hurt the Clintons” and that doing so would be “very, very divisive for the country”. “There’s never been a case like this”, he said.
Reports indicated whereas the computer scientists had found no evidence of hacking in the United States electronic voting system, they argue that an independent audit is required to ascertain if indeed Trump won in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. All of us experience these emotions, in varying degrees at various times.