President-elect Donald 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 made the statement on Twitter and did not expand on the actions he wants the U.S. to take or on the issues he sees around the world.
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Another view: Trumping the environment
Another view: Trumping the environment Whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump was elected, the environment is going to suffer. Check out this story on ldnews.com: http://ldne.ws/2ikiTeq President-elect Donald Trump gives a thumbs up to the crowd during a campaign rally on Aug. 31 in Phoenix.
Trump after Berlin, Turkey attacks: ‘I’ve been proven to be right’
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called the attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara “terrible” on Dec. 21 and said he has been proven to be correct about his plans to impose curbs on Muslims immigrating to the United States. “What’s going on is terrible, terrible,” Trump told reporters, when asked about the truck attack that killed 12 people at a Christmas market in Berlin and the killing of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey by a gunman in Ankara, Reuters reported.
Why people believe fake news, explained
Why do so many Americans have trouble telling truth from fiction online? As humans, we’re wired to believe the worst. The controversy around “fake news” took on a new pall this month when a North Carolina man chose to investigate, gun in hand, a false online conspiracy theory that a Washington.
No Headline among Liberal Media Noted that Hillary Clinton Lost 5 Electors, Compared to 2 for Trump
NBC News covered how the final Electoral College vote sealed Trump’s victory and how a ‘drama-filled Electoral College’ final vote was fitting for the year 2016.
Conservatives, let’s not eat our own: Trump supporters need to…
It’s understandable the Donald Trump’s supporters are exuberant about their unexpected victory that defied all “expert” opinion. It’s understandable they want to push through the policy priorities that propelled Trump to the White House.
Obama helped bring back economy, restless voters chose Trump
The president will leave behind an economy far stronger than the one he inherited. Unemployment is 4.6 percent, a nine-year low.
Butt Hurt Loser Michael Moore Has DRAMATIC Meltdown- HILARITY Ensues
Now that the Electoral College has made Donald Trump one step closer to becoming the 45th president of the United States, liberal author and filmmaker Michael Moore says the centuries-old system designed by America’s Founding Fathers is “racist.” On Tuesday morning, a day after Trump officially received the electoral votes needed to become president, Moore tweeted a message to the “rest of the world” in an attempt to “explain what happened yesterday.”
Lest We Forget, Clinton Wanted to Privatize Social Security
The collapse of the liberal media into a miasma of identity politics and guilt trips is fascinating to watch. After having been laid for a killer trip for how my support for Jill Stein is going to bring about the return of back-alley abortion, I think I have a bit of a right to just point out yet again that Hillary Clinton, if elected, wanted to put my parents in the poorhouse by privatizing their Social Security.
Plane hijacking in Malta ends peacefully; 2 men surrender
The nation’s largest freight railroad has agreed to more thorough inspections and maintenance improvements after a fiery oil train derailment in Oregon and the discovery of more than 800 potential safety… The nation’s largest freight railroad has agreed to more thorough inspections and maintenance improvements after a fiery oil train derailment in Oregon and the discovery of more than 800 potential safety violations… Residents of Alaska’s largest city grapple with icy streets up to seven months a year. Fortunately, there are a number of footwear options for staying upright.
James Comey’s year of unintended – and ruinous – consequences
At the start of 2016, the FBI director enjoyed a reputation as a public servant of high integrity, earning bipartisan acclaim for his stewardship of the nation’s preeminent law enforcement agency. A year later, the FBI, after a series of blows to its credibility, seems increasingly partisan.
Founder of pro-Clinton Pantsuit Nation defends book deal
The founder of a pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook site is defending her decision to write a book after attracting widespread criticism from fellow group members. Libby Chamberlain has a deal with Flatiron Books for a compilation based on postings on Pantsuit Nation, a private site on which members share personal stories about sexism and other kinds of intolerance.
Poll: Democrats want someone new for 2020
President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take office, but pollsters have already begun to dip their toes into the next presidential cycle. A USA Today/Suffolk University poll released Wednesday found Democratic and independent voters lukewarm on a handful of party leaders and most excited for “someone entirely new.”
Trump meeting security adviser after attacks abroad
President-elect Donald Trump is planning to meet with his incoming national security adviser in the aftermath of violence abroad as the process of filling top jobs in his administration presses on, marked by some infighting among advisers. Trump opened his day Wednesday by boasting anew about his Nov. 8 election victory, tweeting that his win in the Electoral College was more difficult to pull off than winning the popular vote would have been if he had tried.
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ItA s been a difficult year politically for NeverTrumpians. Take, for example, Peter Wehner, the former speechwriter for George W. Bush, who spent most of the year expressing outrage over Donald Trump.
AP Poll: US election voted top news story of 2016
This Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 file photo shows the front pages of various British newspapers in London reporting on Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidential election. Widely viewed as a long shot, with an unconventional campaign featuring raucous rallies and pugnacious tweets, he outlasted 16 Republican rivals.
Eugene Robinson:Who in the Gop will stand up to Trump?
President-elect Donald Trump’s victory tour was more than just an opportunity to strut and preen around the country like a peacock with a comb-over. It was a warning to Republican leaders in Congress that Trump intends to be in charge — and that there will be consequences if the party establishment does not fall in line.
Sound Off for Dec. 21: Greener pastures
Now that the electoral vote is in, I would like to quote from a notorious American patriot: “At this point, what difference does it make?” Are you hearing footsteps, Coach Payton? There are jobs open in Jacksonville and Los Angeles. Better dust off your resumA .
AP Poll: US election voted top news story of 2016
The turbulent U.S. election, featuring Donald Trump’s unexpected victory over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, was the overwhelming pick for the top news story of 2016, according to The Associated Press’ annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors. The No.
Barry Soper: Brexit, Trump and Key – A political bombshell of a year
The first explosion was detonated in June with Brexit with voters doing what was considered the unthinkable, turning their backs on Europe. The vote told us more than anything else how divided Britain is and how the political elite misread their constituents.
In NYCa s Russian enclaves, a big a nyeta to hacking talk
Clutching a cobbler’s tool in his hand, Roman Gadayev defiantly lashed out against accusations that Russia meddled in the U.S. election to sway the vote to Donald Trump. “Simply impossible,” said the Kazakhstan native who runs a shoe repair shop near the Brighton Beach boardwalk.
Pantsuit Nation members revolt after operator cashes in with book deal :0
Members of an underground pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group are livid after the operator announced she would be cashing in on the page with a book deal. News that Pantsuit Nation founder Libby Chamberlain would be putting out a tome next May based on comments from the popular page – which has some 4 million members – prompted a flood of angry comments calling the Brooklin, Maine, woman a sellout.
It’s Over: President-elect Trump’s electoral win seals the deal
Throughout the United States, presidential electors cast their ballots Monday. Fewer than a handful of them broke faith with their states’ electorates by not voting as the Nov. 8 results in their states indicated they should.
Footage from The Apprentice shows Trump saying – every racist thing’
Actor and comedian said he received the material before last month’s election but he did not release it because of a confidentiality clause The actor Tom Arnold has claimed to have video of Donald Trump using racist language, obscenities and denigrating his own son in outtakes of The Apprentice . “I have the outtakes to The Apprentice where he says every bad thing ever, every offensive, racist thing ever.
The Latest: Man held for death of ex-reality show contestant
San Francisco appointed a deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday to head the city police department as it deals with a number of racially charged issues. San Francisco named a new police chief, an African-American police veteran who officials and community activists hope can reform a troubled department marred by fatal police shootings of minorities.
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The warrant connected to the FBI search that Hillary Clinton says cost her the election shouldn’t have been granted, three legal experts who reviewed the document released on Tuesday told The Huffington Post. FBI Director James Comey shook up the presidential race 11 days before the election by telling Congress the agency had discovered new evidence in its previously closed investigation into the email habits of Clinton, who was significantly ahead in the polls at the time.
Hillary Clinton emails search warrant documents made public
The FBI told a federal court it needed a search warrant to look at thousands of Hillary Clinton’s emails on the laptop of former US congressman Anthony Weiner because they had potential to cause “grave damage to national security” if disclosed. The wording was contained in a redacted search warrant and other court papers that were previously under seal until Tuesday in the investigation of an online relationship between Mr Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and a teenage girl in North Carolina.
Michelle Obama tells Oprah that 2016 election ‘was painful’
In this June 14, 2016, file photo, first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey have a discussion on Trailblazing the Path for the Next Generation of Women during the White House Summit on the United State of Women in Washington. Mrs. Obama sat down in The White House with Winfrey for a White House interview that was broadcast on CBS Dec. 19, 2016.
Team Clinton: This Effort To Block Trump Through The Electoral College Was Just A Shoddy Coup Attempt
The Electoral College has voted and Donald J. Trump is officially the winner of the 2016 election. Hillary Clinton’s loss to Trump was probably one of the biggest political upsets in recent memory.
Will Trump live up to his infrastructure promises?
Even as they maneuver for a share of the $1 trillion in spending Donald Trump promised to rebuild America’s roads, bridges and airports, lobbyists for transportation and utility industries are beginning to wonder whether Trump really meant what he said. From the day he formally entered the presidential race to the moment he declared victory, Trump pledged to rebuild the nation’s aging and inadequate infrastructure.
The Latest: McConnell says no to select panel on Russia
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is rejecting calls for a special Senate investigative committee focused on possible interference in U.S. elections by Russia and other countries. McConnell says a finding by U.S. intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate Donald Trump “is a serious issue, but it doesn’t require a select committee.”
Your View: Election is over; time to move forward
The irony of the press upset that Russian hacks helped Donald Trump after doing everything in their power to help Hillary Clinton is thick. The masquerade of an honest press was completely exposed as farce as every pretense of an impartial, factual press was abandoned.
Court to unseal Clinton email search warrant
A federal court in New York is scheduled to release redacted copies Tuesday of the search warrant that allowed the FBI to dig into a trove of Hillary Clinton emails days before the presidential election. The emails were found on a computer belonging to former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, the estranged husband of a top Clinton aide.
Local briefs, Dec. 20, 2016
The three finalists are William DeFord, Michael Grattan III and Kevin Kennedy, all of Grand Junction. The three were nominated Friday by the 21st Judicial District Nominating Commission.
The Russians Hacked My Homework
If you believe the Democrat crybabies. Some 30,000 Russians attended the Trump “thank you” rally in Mobile, Alabama.
[Peter Singer] The empathy trap
Soon after Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, he told a young girl, “We don’t have enough empathy in our world today, and it is up to your generation to change that.” Obama expressed a widespread view, so the title of a new book, “Against Empathy,” by Yale University psychologist Paul Bloom, comes as a shock.
U.S. Electoral College Finalizes Trump’s Victory
The Electoral College has finalized Republican Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, rejecting a last-minute push by some Democrats to sway its members. The December 19 vote awarding Trump 304 of the 270 votes he needed to claim victory is the next-to-last step in the presidential election process, as laid out in the U.S. Constitution and federal law.
Trump owes nothing to the ‘Bush Barnacles’
Hillary Clinton’s Democrats are now three-time losers, having lost the election, lost the recounts, and lost the electoral college, but the Republicans will be winners in 2020 only if they keep their promises. Because they are doomed to fail, we could be witnessing the death throes of the Democratic Party as we know it.
Warrant Related to Clinton Emails to Be Unsealed Tuesday
A federal judge in New York has ordered that a search warrant and supporting documents that authorized the FBI in the final days before the election to examine a laptop computer in connection with Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server be unsealed Tuesday at noon. The laptop’s hard drive, which sources say was discovered in an unrelated investigation into alleged sexting by former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, had been used by Weiner and his estranged wife, top Clinton adviser Huma Abedin.
New York members of Electoral College vote for Clinton
New York’s 29 members of the Electoral College have cast their ballots for Hillary Clinton, who won the state despite losing the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump. Among the electors gathered Monday in the state Capitol’s Senate chambers was former President Bill Clinton, who says he’s never been prouder of any vote.