U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday ended his final presidential visit to Europe with a six-party talk here with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of government from France, Italy, Spain and Britain over key issues of foreign policy such as combating “Islamic...
He frequently retweets posts from prominent members of the alt-right and believes that minorities only voted for Obama because of “the color of his skin”.
During his campaign, Trump has attacked media reports he found unfavorable to him, often targeting the New York Times as a failed newspaper while regularly granting its reporters interviews.
The Vermont senator also had advice for the Democratic party following their surprise loss: “The Democrats can not continue to be run – the Democratic party – by what I call the liberal elite”, he said.
The possibility that Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could fill a senior position in the White House raises thorny legal questions – one of which is whether it would run afoul of a federal anti-nepotism statute.
Jeff Sessions’ well-documented and unrefuted record of bigotry and racism disqualified his nomination to a federal judgeship in the 1980s by a GOP-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.
A president has the right to assemble advisers with whom he is comfortable and who reflect his views. Most notably the incredible work President Obama did to restore amicable relations with Cuba could now lie in tatters.
He has also been critical of Russia’s role in recent hacking episodes, including the hacks of Democratic political groups during the election which the USA government attributed to high levels of Russian government.
President-elect Donald Trump wants his national security adviser to be a retired intelligence officer who has called Islam “a cancer” and flew to Moscow a year ago to dine with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a black-tie gala.
Mahathir’s participation in Bersih’s 1MDB demonstrations – he also showed up past year – underlines how the scandal has upended Malaysian politics. As many as 200,000 people showed up a year ago at one point.