In this season of holiday giving, president-elect Donald Trump is apparently in the spirit and doing his part. Trump recently embarked on what he’s calling his “Thank You Tour,” which is intended to show his appreciation to voters in battleground states for helping to elect him president.
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Anne Applebaum: I understand the power of fake news, Russian-style
We were told in June that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked by Russians. We were told in October that material subsequently passed on to WikiLeaks came from the same source and that President Barack Obama was considering a response.
Anne Applebaum: I understand the power of fake news, Russian-style
We were told in June that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked by Russians. We were told in October that material subsequently passed on to WikiLeaks came from the same source and that President Barack Obama was considering a response.
Putin congratulates Trump as he denies meddling in US election
Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump for “keenly” gauging public sentiment in order to win the US election, and denied White House claims that Russia had meddled with the vote. Speaking during a marathon end-of-year news conference, Russian president Mr Putin said he sees “nothing unusual” in Mr Trump’s pledge to strengthen the US nuclear forces, saying the statement was in line with the president-elect’s campaign promises.
Trump, in day of tweets, suggests major changes on…
President-elect Donald Trump takes a question from a member of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Dec. 21, 2016. Trump on Thursday abruptly called for the United States to “greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability” until the rest of the world “comes to its senses” regarding nuclear weapons.
Trump Transition Team: Russia Hacks And Wikileaks Had No Effect On Election
Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member who backed Donald Trump and now a member of his transition team told CNN that he believes Russia was behind the hacks, but they had no bearing on the outcome of the general election. The proof is that during the election season, Donald Trump and his surrogates relentlessly and breathlessly repeated every hacked email and unconfirmed rumor that emanated from these leaks, including many from the New York FBI field office, and never stopped hammering away at them.
Trump Transition Team: Russia Hacks And Wikileaks Had No Effect On Election
Rep. Chris Collins, the first House member who backed Donald Trump and now a member of his transition team told CNN that he believes Russia was behind the hacks, but they had no bearing on the outcome of the general election. The proof is that during the election season, Donald Trump and his surrogates relentlessly and breathlessly repeated every hacked email and unconfirmed rumor that emanated from these leaks, including many from the New York FBI field office, and never stopped hammering away at them.
Trudeau Joins Obama in Freezing Arctic Offshore Oil Drilling
President Barack Obama banned new offshore oil and gas drilling in more than 100 million acres of the U.S. Arctic and undersea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a move certain to provoke a fight with the Republican-led Congress and his successor in the White House. In an announcement coordinated between two of the world’s biggest oil producers, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also committed to freeze new offshore leasing in his nation’s Arctic waters and review the matter every five years.
Obama Said to Use 1953 Law to Restrict Offshore Oil Drilling
President Barack Obama is preparing to block the sale of new offshore drilling rights in most of the U.S. Arctic and parts of the Atlantic, a move that could indefinitely restrict oil production there, according to people familiar with the decision. Obama will invoke a provision in a 1953 law that gives him wide latitude to withdraw U.S. waters from future oil and gas leasing, said the people who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been announced.
Japan’s SoftBank to invest $1 billion in OneWeb sat factory
Japanese telecoms and energy company SoftBank has agreed to invest $1 billion in the U.S. company OneWeb Ltd., which plans to build a factory in Florida that the companies say could create 3,000 jobs. The two companies announced late Monday that OneWeb had obtained pledges of $1.2 billion from SoftBank and other investors.
Cuban to Trump: The U.S. Needs to Invest in Robotics to ‘Win’
The ‘Shark Tank’ investor writes in a blog post that the government should spend $100 billion to create and build robots. Mark Cuban, who did not support President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, has struck a more hopeful tone since the results came in.
Kellyanne Conway questions Obama’s motives on response to Russia hack
Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to Donald Trump, questioned Sunday President Obama’s motives for choosing to respond against Russia over cyber attacks into Democratic party systems. Asked on CBS’ “Face the Nation” whether the president-elect approved of Mr. Obama’s call to take action against Russia because of the Kremlin-directed hacked, Conway said Mr. Trump “respects” the decision.
A cabal of elites elects the president. But our founders preferred…
This Oct. 28, 2008, file photo from Glenburn, Maine, shows sportswear bearing the name of a college that doesn’t exist: the Electoral College This Oct. 28, 2008, file photo from Glenburn, Maine, shows sportswear bearing the name of a college that doesn’t exist: the Electoral College American presidential elections are generally orderly affairs. People vote, somebody wins and life goes on.
Gibson: The language of the new public square
From President-elect Donald Trump to Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer, Twitter is the preferred means of instant communication, as strange as it may seem for Americans not accustomed to officials bypassing traditional media and tweeting in 140-character bites.
Fake news epidemic hits home for Sedro-Woolley family
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, DEC. 17-18 – In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, Joel Melom’s ex-wife Dana Linderman and stepfather Tim McCray pose with a photo of Melom with his family while he still married to Linderman in Sedro-Woolley, Wash.
Fake news epidemic hits home for Sedro-Woolley family
ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND EDITIONS, DEC. 17-18 – In this Dec. 7, 2016 photo, Joel Melom’s ex-wife Dana Linderman and stepfather Tim McCray pose with a photo of Melom with his family while he still married to Linderman in Sedro-Woolley, Wash.
Trump’s un-PC cabinet matches his campaign promises to a T :0
President-elect Donald Trump is assembling a Cabinet designed to govern exactly as he promised he would during the campaign. Naturally, the left is freaking out.
Trump has been lying about the Russian hack. He just accidentally admitted it himself.
In recent days, Donald Trump has been spinning a new narrative about CIA charges of Russian interference in our election: The administration did not leak the news of this finding until after Trump won, which shows this is just an after-the-fact effort to undercut the significance of his victory over Hillary Clinton. As Trump tweeted Thursday : “If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?” This is not some small offhand remark.
Trump is delivering on his promise to be unpredictable on foreign…
President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was a prime example of his unpredictability, a strategy that carries a lot of risk, foreign policy experts say. President-elect Donald Trump’s telephone call with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen was a prime example of his unpredictability, a strategy that carries a lot of risk, foreign policy experts say.
Fears of Russia and Trump drive EU leaders to boost defense budgets
Meeting for the first time since the U.S. presidential election, European Union members agreed Thursday to increase their spending on defense. President-elect Donald Trump ‘s friendly overtures to an expansionist Russia and his statements casting doubt on his commitment to the NATO alliance have sent shudders through Europe.
Obama orders review of election-season hacking
President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyberattacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday. The review, led by intelligence agencies, will be a “deep dive” into a possible pattern of increased “malicious cyber activity” timed to the campaign season, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said.
Trump deepens Goldman ties as he builds out economic team
Trump is expected to pick Cohn to lead the White H… Early plans call for American hero-astronaut John Glenn to lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space. American hero-astronaut John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space.
Trump transition team seeks details on Energy Dept. workers
Early plans call for American hero-astronaut John Glenn to lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space. American hero-astronaut John Glenn will lie in state in Ohio’s capitol building preceding a celebration of his life of military and government service and two history-making voyages into space.
Trump Team’s Asking for Ways to Keep Nuclear Power Alive
President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are looking at ways in which the U.S. government could help nuclear power generators being forced out of the electricity market by cheaper natural gas and renewable resources. In a document obtained by Bloomberg, Trump’s transition team asked the Energy Department how it can help keep nuclear reactors “operating as part of the nation’s infrastructure” and what it could do to prevent the shutdown of plants.
Trump Has Already Betrayed The Working Class
They voted for him in droves. In a remarkable political shift, the white working class who have seen their wages decline over decades thanks to shameless pandering to Wall Street and big business by both political parties, finally gave up on the Democrats and threw their lot in with billionaire businessman Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according… Senate Republicans refused to give President Obama’s pick to replace Supreme Court Justice Scalia even the courtesy of a… When one of the dendrites in a House Freedom Caucus member’s brain goes out the whole string goes out. During the Trump years, I’m putting all my investments in the soon-to-be-booming environmental disaster cleanup sector.
No, Trump’s cellphone is not to blame for White House leaks
A fake news article published by a website called “The Seattle Tribune” falsely claims that President Donald Trump ‘s unsecured Android cell phone is the source of leaks coming from the White House over the last several weeks. The false article — published on Feb. 26 — has been liked 65,000 times on Facebook and viewed more than 160,000 times, according to a counter on the web page.
No, Trump’s cellphone is not to blame for White House leaks
A fake news article published by a website called “The Seattle Tribune” falsely claims that President Donald Trump ‘s unsecured Android cell phone is the source of leaks coming from the White House over the last several weeks. The false article — published on Feb. 26 — has been liked 65,000 times on Facebook and viewed more than 160,000 times, according to a counter on the web page.