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Post by Admin on Nov 27, 2016 18:38:31 GMT
President-elect Donald Trump has picked up the pace of his transition efforts, holding court at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf resort throughout the weekend with contenders for top administration jobs while at the same time continuing his feud with the cast of “Hamilton” and denouncing NBC’s "Saturday Night Live." The dichotomy has been jarring, with Trump appearing the poised president-elect one moment as he greeted prospective Cabinet appointees on the front steps of his Bedminster golf club, only to turn belligerent on Twitter the next moment, declaring (and quickly deleting) that a “Hamilton” actor “couldn’t even memorize lines!” "The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior," Trump tweeted at 6:22 a.m. Sunday, continuing his barbs against the Broadway musical after a lead actor used the Friday night curtain call to tell Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who was in the audience, that he worried the administration would “not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights.”
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Post by Admin on Nov 28, 2016 18:48:05 GMT
President-elect Donald Trump transition spokesman Jason Miller offered no new evidence on Monday to back up his boss’s false claim there was widespread voter fraud in the presidential election. Instead, Miller clung to two previously debunked examples, while criticizing reporters for not taking the topic more seriously. “If this much attention and oxygen is going to be given to a completely obnoxious, throwaway fundraising scheme by someone like Jill Stein, then there should be actual substantive looks at overall examples of voter fraud and illegal immigrants voting in recent years," Miller told reporters during an official transition briefing call. "That is the broader message that I think should be taken away here."
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Post by Admin on Nov 29, 2016 18:34:44 GMT
Whatever the ultimate explanation for the polls’ failure to predict the election’s outcome, the future of the polling industry is in question after Tuesday. Trump’s astounding victory demonstrated that the polls simply cannot be trusted. A longstanding assumption of political campaigns is that a first-rate “get out the vote” organization is indispensable. The conventional wisdom in 2016 held that Trump’s lack of a grass-roots organization was a huge liability for his campaign. But, as it turned out, he didn’t need an organization. Trump has been in the public eye for more than 30 years, which meant that he entered the race with nearly 100 percent name recognition. Trump’s longstanding status as a celebrity enabled him to garner relentless media attention from the moment he entered the race. One study found that by May 2016 Trump had received the equivalent of $3 billion in free advertising from the media coverage his campaign commanded. Trump seemed to intuitively understand that the controversial things he said on the campaign trail captured the voters’ attention in a way that serious policy speeches never could. Most important of all, he had highly motivated voters. Trump’s populist rhetoric and open contempt for civility and basic standards of decency enabled him to connect with the Republican base like no candidate since Ronald Reagan. Trump didn’t play by the normal rules of politics, and his voters loved him for it. Trump’s victory would seem to herald an era of celebrity politicians. He showed that a charismatic media-savvy outsider has significant advantages over traditional politicians and conventional political organizations in the internet age. In the future, we may see many more unconventional politicians in the Trump mold.
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Post by Admin on Dec 1, 2016 18:28:44 GMT
Mr. Mnuchin, 53, was the national finance chairman for Mr. Trump’s campaign. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he became a partner, before creating his own hedge fund, moving to the West Coast and entering the first rank of movie financiers by bankrolling hits like the “X-Men” franchise and “Avatar.” His selection fits uneasily with much of Mr. Trump’s campaign rhetoric attacking the financial industry. Mr. Trump, in a campaign ad intended as a closing argument, portrayed the chief executive of Goldman Sachs as the personification of a global elite that the ad said had “robbed our working class.” A number of Mr. Mnuchin’s friends made comments to various publications [in April] expressing shock at the decision [by Mnuchin to support Trump]. Mr. Mnuchin was unfazed.
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Post by Admin on Dec 2, 2016 18:39:43 GMT
The first stop in President-elect Donald Trump’s “thank you tour" quickly turned into a victory lap for the real estate magnate to revel in his surprising win and bash the naysayers that believed he had no shot at the White House. Trump’s Thursday speech in Ohio largely mirrored the popular rallies that were a mainstay of his presidential campaign. The businessman boasted about his upset of Hillary Clinton, railed against the media, and chided politicians that counted him out or refused to back him. “Our victory was so great, we have the House, we have the Senate, we have the presidency,” Trump said at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati. “People are constantly telling me and telling you to reduce our expectations. Now is not the time to downsize our dreams.”
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