– More Bad News For Jill Stein As Pennsylvania Judge Blocks Recount Petitions
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Putin Warns Upsetting Global Strategic Balance “Could Lead To Global Catastrophe”, Wants To Be Friends With Trump
In his annual address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin struck an unusually conciliatory tone on Thursday, saying Moscow wanted to get on with the incoming U.S. administration and was looking to make friends not enemies: “We are ready to cooperate with the new U.S. administration. We have a shared responsibility to ensure international security.”
Trump Reportedly Considering Sarah Palin To Run Veterans’ Affairs
– Trump Reportedly Considering Sarah Palin To Run Veterans’ Affairs:
Following chatter that former Alaska governor Sarah Palin was in line for Interior Secretary, ABC News reports that President-Elect Trump is considering her to lead Veterans Affairs.
Trump considering @SarahPalinUSA for VA Secretary-per our @shushwalshe (who wrote the book on the Palin!)
— Tom Llamas (@TomLlamasABC) November 30, 2016
Palin was previously a strong supporter of the president-elect throughout his campaign. She endorsed the billionaire in January during his primary campaign, ahead of the Iowa state caucuses.
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Goldman’s President Gary Cohn Said To Be Considering Departing Firm
– Goldman’s President Gary Cohn Said To Be Considering Departing Firm:
Just a day after Goldman COO Gary Cohn unexpectedly met with Donald Trump, he is now said to be “weighing a future outside the firm” the WSJ reports. According to Dow Jones, the bank’s “Number 2”, who met with Trump on Tursday, has had conversations in recent months about leaving the bank.
As reported yesterday, Cohn, who has been CEO Blankfein’s top deputy for a decade, met with Donald Trump Tuesday. It isn’t clear whether the president-elect is considering Mr. Cohn for a position; Politico reported Wednesday that Mr. Cohn could be a contender to head the Office of Management and Budget. A possible position in the Trump administration comes at a time when Mr. Cohn’s role at Goldman has already been in question. The 56-year-old president and chief operating officer has had conversations in recent months about leaving the bank, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Trump Picks Former Goldman Banker Steven Mnuchin As Treasury Secretary
I’ve commented on Steven Mnuchin before:
Trump and Clinton are both Rothschild puppets.
– Trump Picks Former Goldman Banker Steven Mnuchin As Treasury Secretary:
While it has yet to be officially confirmed by the Trump transition team, moments ago the NYT reported that – in what had previously been leaked on several occasions on various other outlets most notably the WSJ – former Goldman banker and Soros employee, Steven Mnuchin “a financier with deep roots on Wall Street and in Hollywood but no government experience” is expected to be named Donald J. Trump’s Treasury secretary as soon as Wednesday.
The WSJ has confirmed as much, reporting that “President-elect Donald Trump will name longtime banker and former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin as Treasury secretary, turning to a campaign loyalist and fundraiser for the incoming administration’s top economic cabinet post, a transition official said Tuesday.”
Steven Terner Mnuchin at Trump Tower in Manhattan this month
Trump Picks Elaine Chao As Transportation Secretary
– Trump Picks Elaine Chao As Transportation Secretary:
In the first of what Mike Pence called “several very important announcements,” Politico reports that former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao is set to be announced later Tuesday as President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Transportation.
The other contender for the position was former Democratic U.S. Representative from Tennessee Harold Ford.
Chao, who ran the Labor Department under President George W. Bush, met with the incoming president at Trump Tower last week and discussed labor and transportation policy, Trump’s transition team said then.
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Defense Department Launches Probe Of Petraeus Sex Scandal Leaks
– Defense Department Launches Probe Of Petraeus Sex Scandal Leaks:
As reported earlier today, in what may be a tiebreaker option for Secretary of State in Trump’s administration with both Romney and Giuliani seemingly unable to get enough internal support to make it over the hurdle, the president elect met with David Petraeus, a former U.S. military commander in Iraq whose sharing of classified information with his biographer mistress, led to his resignation as CIA chief in 2012, to evaluate him for the top diplomatic position in the US government.
Petraeus said after meeting Trump that the New York businessman “basically walked us around the world” in their discussion. “He showed a great grasp of the variety of challenges that are out there and some of the opportunities as well,” Petraeus told reporters.
Trump’s initial response appeared favorable: “Just met with General Petraeus–was very impressed!” Trump tweeted shortly after the meeting which lasted one hour at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
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David Petraeus To Meet With Trump As Possible Secretary Of State Pick
– David Petraeus To Meet With Trump As Possible Secretary Of State Pick:
Confirming media rumors that in addition to the ongoing battle between Romney and Giulianni for the position of Secretary of State, which had led to media fallout implicating Trump media aide Kellyanne Conway who allegedly “went rogue” by bashing Romney on Twitter and on the TV circuit over the weekend, Bloomberg reports that Trump is set to meet with General David Petraeus, whom he is now considering for the position of secretary of state.As a reminder, the four-star general left government under a cloud for sharing classified documents during an extramarital affair. He is set to meet Trump “amid infighting among Trump’s advisers about who to pick for the post” in what may be yet another media distraction as the public response against Petraeus may be just as powerful as that against Romney. As a reminder, Kellyanne Conwaysaid Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she is “just astonished at the breathtaking volume and intensity of blow-back that I see” toward the possibility of Romney serving as the nation’s top diplomat.
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Trump Tweets: “Millions” Voted Illegaly For Hillary Clinton
FYI.
– Trump Tweets: “Millions” Voted Illegaly For Hillary Clinton:
In what is either Trump’s latest trolling of the already neurotic media, or just his conversion to “conspiracy theorism” much to the delight of Russian propaganda, “fake news”-spotting anonymous groups everywhere, moments ago the President-elect tweeted that he would have won the popular vote if “millions of illegal votes” were discounted.
“In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
The statement, the latest in a series of 12 consecutive tweets provoked by Jill Stein’s campaign for a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania may ironically help Stein’s cause should Trump’s tweet be seen as “confirmation” of illegal voting during the presidential election, albeit in the other direction… although by now the entire narrative is so absurd and surreal, not even Salvador Dali would dare touch it.
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Wealthy Fashion Designers Refuse Service To Melania Trump
FYI.
– Wealthy Fashion Designers Refuse Service To Melania Trump:
Submitted by Caleb Verbois via The Mises Institute,
People magazine recently reported news that a number of prominent fashion designers have refused to work with Melania Trump because they do not approve of her, or more likely, her husband’s politics and language. Given Donald Trump’s often offensive way of speaking about, well, almost everything, that is understandable. Thus, they conclude, if you design and make clothes for Melania Trump, especially the outfit she will wear to the inauguration, you are, in some small way, endorsing Donald Trump and all he stands for. So designers like Sophie Theallet have decided that because they “stand against all discrimination and prejudice,” they cannot work for Melania.
This all seems rather ironic. How can progressive fashion designers like Sophie Theallet refuse to serve anyone? In recent years it’s become first unreasonable, then politically incorrect, and lately illegal for some people to refuse service. Not fashion designers of course. They are above that. No, I’m thinking about bakers and photographers, who, because of their religious beliefs, have politely but firmly declined to provide service for gay weddings. Note that they have not declined service to homosexuals. They have just made it clear that they cannot morally provide a wedding cake or floral arrangements for a homosexual wedding, because it goes against their religious principles.
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Google Maps Briefly Renames Trump Tower To “Dump Tower”
– Google Maps Briefly Renames Trump Tower To “Dump Tower”:
On Saturday night, anyone seeking to find the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York was met with an unexpected result: the Trump residence and transition campaign HQ was briefly renamed “Dump Tower” on Google Maps. The unofficial new name didn’t last too long, however, with the president-elect’s transition headquarters completely removed shortly after.
After social media discovered the renaming and, the location vanished completely from the map before reappearing with its original “Trump Tower” moniker. Trump International Hotel & Tower in Columbus Circle was also renamed Dump International Hotel & Tower, according to PIX11.
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Clintons Confirm Participation In Recount Plan, Despite No “Actionable Evidence Of Hacking”
– Clintons Confirm Participation In Recount Plan, Despite No “Actionable Evidence Of Hacking”
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H/t reader squodgy:
“There you go…. exactly as expected.
There’s just no way the Rothschilds can have the population speaking in sync.
Divide and conquer.”
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Shocking: Trump Fills Cabinet With Council on Foreign Relations War Hawks (Video)
– Shocking: Trump Fills Cabinet With Council on Foreign Relations War Hawks (Video)
H/t reader squodgy:
“So, that’s that then! Status Quo.
No change. A total load of campaign bollocks.
And the Jill Stein issue only makes the point that they have successfully divided the country.”
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DONALD TRUMP ON 9/11 TRUTH (WATCH THIS BEFORE VOTING) (Video)
https://youtu.be/cSSwXvsEX_c
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‘Trump and the white power problem’
FYI.
– Trump and the white power problem
H/t reader squodgy:
“The comments are worth a read at the end. Very Pro Trump..”
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Trump Taps Pro-Israel South Carolina Governor to be UN Envoy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meeting at the Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016.
– Trump Taps Pro-Israel South Carolina Governor to be UN Envoy:
Nikki Haley last year signed legislation that bans boycott of Jewish state; appointment makes her first woman in top post in new administration
By AP and Times of Israel staff
November 24, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “Times Of Israel” – President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina’s pro-Israel governor Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the United Nations.
Haley has accepted the cabinet-level position, becoming the first woman tapped for a top-level administration post during his White House transition so far.
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