Turkish president criticizes anti-Trump protests
Moskowitz, who voted for Clinton, suggested there were “positive signs” that Trump might govern differently than he campaigned, but she wrote in a letter to parents that many of her students, who are overwhelmingly black and Latino, would feel that “they are the target of the hatred that drove Trump’s campaign”. Jeff Sessions, Rick Dearborn, as the executive director, replacing a close Christie ally.
Meanwhile, Trump himself remains at Trump Tower, spokeswoman Hope Hicks says, huddling with his transition team as they move forward with vetting names to build out his cabinet. Well, the media can preemptively start the process by firing all the bottom-dwelling lizards who were wrong in the first place.
On Wednesday a group of more than a dozen media organizations, including The National Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists, called on Mr. Trump to commit to a formal press pool “from now until the final day of your presidency”.
Former GOP national security official Eliot Cohen blasted Trump’s team on Twitter, calling them “angry, arrogant”. The names of those in that “bucket” of landing teams will be released tomorrow at the transition web site; the names on the other landing teams will get released on Monday and Wednesday.
Disclosures from Trump’s 27th-floor office in Trump Tower in Manhattan continued throughout the day.
“The beginning of any transition like this has turmoil because it’s just the nature of the process”, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said as he left Trump’s transition headquarters in Washington.
Following up Wednesday, he rejected reports of disarray and infighting for plum posts as “so totally wrong”, and lashed out at The New York Times as “fools” for their transition coverage. “It’s only a person like Donald Trump [who] can bring this level of qualified and [high-caliber] type of individuals”. He told fellow Republicans he had Trump’s support, and heralded “the dawn of a new, unified Republican government”.
Anti-Trump protests broke out after Trump won the US Presidential elections, with several disagreeing and saying that he was not fit to be the president. The meeting will be kept private, Spicer said, “because there is only one president at a time”. Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and spokesman for a pro-Trump super PAC, argued Wednesday that such a system would be both legal and a good idea. The list, meticulously compiled and green-lighted by transition chief Gov. Chris Christie, Trump loyalist Sen.
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was spotted walking into the building Wednesday with banker Steven Mnuchin, according to a pool report.
Prospective team members must not now be paid lobbyists and must agree to adhere to a five-year ban on participating in lobbying activities after leaving government and a lifetime ban on representing foreign governments, Spicer said.
Trump himself defended the lobbyists serving with his transition in a “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday.
“That’s the only people you have down there”, when asked about the number of lobbyists on his transition.
“Those briefings include organizational charts, budget materials, briefings on key agency priorities and areas of responsibility, and other materials describing the essential functions of that agency”, the White House says in a fact sheet about the transition. An official said, however, Cruz is not viewed as a top contender.
The source close to Christie said it could be strategic to spin a narrative that Christie was too reliant on lobbyists and not delivering, saying, the story “has been leveraged to deepen the wound – particularly in the NY media market”.