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Post by Admin on Dec 10, 2016 18:20:25 GMT
A secret CIA assessment has concluded that Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election in an effort to help Donald Trump win the presidency, according to a report by The Washington Post. “It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia’s goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,” a senior U.S. official briefed on an intelligence presentation made to U.S. senators told the Post. “That’s the consensus view.” According to the report published on Friday, the intelligence agencies have identified various individuals who helped the Russian government leak hacked documents from various Democratic sources, including the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, to WikiLeaks. The New York Times also reported Friday, citing senior administration officials, that Russian actors also hacked the Republican National Committee (RNC) but chose not to release the information. The CIA assessment also concluded that the core purpose of the interference was not to disrupt or undermine the election process, but a deliberate attempt to help the Republican nominee win the White House.
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Post by Admin on Dec 11, 2016 18:48:59 GMT
Preparing to make public appearances Thursday in Ohio and Iowa, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate restaurant chain executive Andy Puzder to be labor secretary. Puzder — the CEO of CKE Restaurants, which owns the fast food restaurants Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s — also worked as a Trump campaign adviser and is a major critic of what he calls unnecessary federal regulations, including a proposed hike in the federal minimum wage. “President-elect Trump has called for an immediate halt to all new federal regulations and a very thorough agency-level review of previous regulations to see which need to be scrapped,” Puzder told a recent Restaurant Finance & Development Conference in Las Vegas. “We’ve reached the point where over-regulation is doing meaningful damage to our businesses."
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Post by Admin on Dec 12, 2016 18:39:33 GMT
Even for Donald Trump, the distance is still fun to think about, up here in his penthouse 600 ft. in the sky, where it’s hard to make out the regular people below. The ice skaters swarming Central Park’s Wollman Rink look like old-television static, and the Fifth Avenue holiday shoppers could be mites in a gutter. To even see this view, elevator operators, who spend their days standing in place, must push a button marked 66–68, announcing all three floors of Trump’s princely pad. Inside, staff members wear cloth slipcovers on their shoes, so as not to scuff the shiny marble or stain the plush cream carpets. This is, in short, not a natural place to refine the common touch. It’s gilded and gaudy, a dreamscape of faded tapestry, antique clocks and fresco-style ceiling murals of gym-rat Greek gods. The throw pillows carry the Trump shield, and the paper napkins are monogrammed with the family name. His closest neighbors, at least at this altitude, are an international set of billionaire moguls who have decided to stash their money at One57 and 432 Park, the two newest skyscrapers to remake midtown Manhattan. There is no tight-knit community in the sky, no paperboy or postman, no bowling over brews after work.
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Post by Admin on Dec 13, 2016 18:49:20 GMT
President-elect Donald Trump has just said that he considers America’s One China policy a bargaining chip, to be traded off against other things that the United States wants from China. In his description: I don’t know why we have to be bound by a One China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade. … I mean, look … we’re being hurt very badly by China with devaluation; with taxing us heavy at the borders when we don’t tax them; with building a massive fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, which they shouldn’t be doing; and, frankly, with not helping us at all with North Korea. In other words, the One China policy isn’t a big deal — it’s a bargaining issue, like many other issues. So is Trump right?
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Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2016 18:28:25 GMT
It's no secret that Maples met and began a relationship with Trump while he was still married to his first wife, Ivana, but the relationship that started in scandal ended rather amicably. "I think you always hope in a marriage that you can bring the best out in each other," Maples said in a 2016 interview with Access Hollywood. "But after many years, we realized we weren't." At the time of their divorce, People interviewed Trump's good friend, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams. "It was lust, not really love," Adams said of the relationship. "She loved him very much. But Donald is somebody who's in love mostly with himself."
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