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By Anthony L Hall Many of my progressive friends are having a hard time coming to terms with Donald Trump as president-elect of the United States. Some are even joining self-flagellating, flash-mob protests, which are springing all over the country, to vent their raging disbelief.
Former PacketSled CEO Matt Harrigan is blaming being drunk for posting a death threat against President-elect Donald Trump on Election Day last week. Harriman has apologized for the post, and has temporarily moved his family.
Shutting the door on media speculation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday that he will not be serving in President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet. Gingrich, who was a major Trump supporter during the late campaign and appeared frequently on TV and radio to flack for Trump, has been the subject of constant speculation that he will join Trump's cabinet in some role.
Beginning on January 20, President-elect Donald Trump will be accompanied at all times by a military aide carrying the nuclear "football," enabling him to order a nuclear strike at a moment's notice. Just like his predecessors, whether he is at the White House, in a motorcade, aboard Air Force One or on a trip overseas, he will never be more than an arm's reach away from the aide and his satchel.
A new profile on Barack Obama gives more detail on Donald Trump's apparent lack of familiarity with the scope of the presidency. During Trump's private meeting with Obama last week, the president-elect reportedly was surprised by the wide range of the president's job, according to a Wall Street Journal report .
Scarlett Fakhar was a reporter on KRIV-TV - a Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas - until a post she made celebrating the election of Donald Trump on her personal Facebook page, which was set to private, was made public. In the post, Fakhar expressed glee at Trump's victory, writing, "Since everyone is talking about how they woke up this morningill just go ahead and say I could barely sleep from how happy and relieved I was."
Or so people have been telling me since last week when democracy laid the biggest egg in American history. Well, here is my response: I have no interest in seeing this country heal.
Two former generals are in contention for defense secretary in President-elect Donald Trump's administration: James Mattis and Jack Keane, who served as an informal adviser to Hillary Clinton, according to a person involved in the transition. Trump is seeking to build out his national security team, having offered the job of national security adviser to retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a key military surrogate throughout his campaign, according to the person.
A Washington state lawmaker wants to criminalize the protests that have sprung up around the country against the election of Donald Trump to the White House, while the two teens who launched some of the New York City demonstrations said th Wash.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas addresses the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention dinner at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD, on Nov. 17, 2016. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas addresses the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention dinner at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, MD, on Nov. 17, 2016.
Theresa May is to hold talks with Barack Obama and European leaders on a range of pressing global issues, including the threat posed by Islamic State fighters being pushed out of their Middle East strongholds. Outgoing US president Mr Obama has been on a farewell trip to Europe, visiting Greece before arriving in Berlin for a meeting with the leaders of the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Before taking office, Trump signals campaign promises are negotiable U.S. presidential candidates frequently make campaign promises they can't deliver once in power. Check out this story on thetowntalk.com: http://usat.ly/2g2JP36 Trump made a lot of big promises on the campaign trail, as President-elect many of those declarations are starting to look less and less possible.
As Democrats point fingers in the aftermath of Donald Trump's surprise win last week, Bernie Sanders is taking aim at one culprit: the Democratic Party. "One of the reasons that he won is, in my view, a failure of the Democratic Party that must be rectified," Sanders told a cheering crowd at a Thursday rally on Capitol Hill convened by his political action committee and a coalition of progressive advocacy groups.
What will the ramifications of a Donald Trump presidency be on United States foreign policy and its place in the world? Several faculty members in the University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies reviewed their areas of expertise - China, Russia, Europe, the Middle East and immigration - in light of this new geopolitical reality. Their comments are below.
Governor Rick Scott met with President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday in an effort to help the 45th president reinvent the federal government. There has been speculation for months though that the governor might be considered for a position in the Trump administration, although the governor has denied the claims.
The Media Research Center has decided how it will address the controversy of Donald Trump naming white nationalist- and anti-Semitic-linked Breitbart News leader Steve Bannon as his top adviser: distract, distract, distract. First up is Matt Philbin, who wonders why the media wants to talk about Bannon and not "anti-Catholic bigot" John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager.Of course, the reason is that Podesta is not an "anti-Catholic bigot" at all -- as Philbin admits, Podesta -- a Catholic himself -- was critical only of conservative Catholicism.
Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth said he was keeping a close eye on "warning signs" from US President-elect Donald Trump after the Republican's tough talk during his campaign about torture and drone strikes. "I don't take entirely seriously what he said on the campaign trail... I don't take entirely at face value that he is going to kill families is just a blatant war crime," Roth told AFP.
U.S. President Barack Obama is greeted in Berlin by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, with whom he has forged a close transatlantic alliance during eight years in office. US President Barack Obama has offered pointed foreign policy advice to his successor, Donald Trump.
As one of President-elect Donald Trump's closest and most consistent allies, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is a likely pick for a top post in his administration. But Sessions had a rocky Senate confirmation when he was nominated for a job 30 years ago.