When Donald Trump takes office next month, he will be inheriting a country in much better shape than when the current president took office in 2009. For that, he should be saying, “Thanks, Obama.”
“Before the election, you people are like wild beasts, wild animals,” Trump said of his supporters.
The Republican strategy on the health care law boils down to this: Repeal it first and figure out what to replace it with later.
A Republican Party and a conservative movement that has moved from facts to beliefs are outraged that Facebook would use a coalition of fact checkers in their effort to weed out fake news.
Members of the incoming Trump administration are floating ideas that would radically bring changes to the White House Press Corps. All of the suggested changes would benefit Trump by allowing the White House to intimidate journalists into compliance while restricting the free flow of information from the White House to the American people.
Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) charged that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “clearly, yes” involved in the election hacks. Reid added, “And his having been former head of the KGB, does that surprise you?”
President-elect Trump isn’t doing a proper vetting of his nominees for financial and conflict of interest issues. It is being reported that Trump is handing out jobs in his administration based on “gut instinct and chemistry.” The consequences of Trump’s refusal to properly vet his cabinet could do immense damage to the American people.
Senate Democrats are using the day when Donald Trump was supposed to hold his press conference explaining how is going to separate himself from his business conflicts of interest to announce legislation that would require the president and vice-president election to publicly disclose and divest all conflicts of interest.
David French says, “Surrender is not an option when the human soul hangs in the balance.” How about when your soul means we lose our rights?
Trump’s strategy for working with thugs is to let thugs be thugs as long as Trump gets a cut. And that includes the thugs in Trump’s own cabinet.
