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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump is set to fire the attorneys who worked alongside Special Counsel Jack Smith on two federal investigations into the president-elect and use the Department of Justice to probe the 2020 election, according to The Washington Post.
The attorneys who may become caught up in the firings include career professionals who are usually protected from such revenge efforts.
Trump is set to put together teams of investigators to look for evidence that there was fraud in battleground states in the 2020 election, according to The Post. There’s no evidence that fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, Trump announced that his pick for the job of treasury secretary is hedge fund manager Scott Bessent.
Trump called Bessent “one of the World’s foremost International Investors and Geopolitical and Economic Strategists.”
In a flurry of announcements on Friday night, Trump revealed his picks to lead the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the FDA, the CDC, the Office of the Surgeon General, and the Department of Labor.
Trump’s campaign team celebrated his hush money trial sentencing being indefinitely postponed by Justice Juan Merchan on Friday, calling it “a decisive win” in a “Witch Hunt” case.
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Trump will fire Jack Smith’s lawyers and use the DoJ to investigate the 2020 election, report says
President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly set to attempt to fire the attorneys who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith investigating the former president for his alleged mishandling of classified documents and for his connection to the Capitol riot.
Those affected are likely to include career professionals usually shielded from such revenge efforts, , according to The Washington Post.
Trump is also set to put together groups to look for evidence that the 2020 election was riddled with fraud.
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Trump will fire Jack Smith’s lawyers and use the DoJ to investigate the 2020 election
Those affected are likely to include career professionals usually shielded from political revenge efforts, which may take years to enact
Americans view Trump more ‘warmly’ now than after previous elections
After a contentious presidential election cycle, approximately 43 percent of people said they feel “very warm” or “warm” toward the president-elect in a new poll conducted by Pew Research Center.
Ariana Baio reports:
Americans view Trump more ‘warmly’ now than after previous elections, poll says
Trump increased his image among voters by nine percentage points between the 2020 election and now
Grimes says Elon Musk is ‘unrecognizable’ as she speaks out about bitter custody battle
Grimes has said that her former partner and father of her child Elon Musk has become “unrecognizable” as she opened up about her bitter custody battle with the tech billionaire.
The Canadian musician, real name Claire Elise Boucher, said she had spent a year “locked in battle” with Musk over her rights as a mother and that her social media posts had been used against her.
It comes after it was reported that the former couple’s custody battle over their three children; four-year-old X Æ A-12, also known as baby X; two-year-old Exa; and two-year-old Tau, had been resolved.
Mike Bedigan reports.
Grimes says Elon Musk is ‘unrecognizable’ as she speaks out about custody battle
The Canadian musician, real name Claire Elise Boucher, said she had spent a year ‘locked in battle’ with the tech billionaire
Pete Hegseth once made ominous prediction about ‘civil war’ if Democrats won the election
Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has said that leftists are America’s “internal enemies” and suggested a Democratic victory could have ended in a civil war.
Trump named the 44-year-old veteran and Fox News host as his nominee for secretary of defense earlier this month. Now, The Guardian reports the man who could lead the Pentagon once wrote in 2020 that the U.S. might undergo “civil war” if Democrats won.
In his book American Crusade, Hegseth laid out “the strategy we must employ in order to defeat America’s internal enemies” and called on the GOP to “mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents.”
“America will decline and die,” Hegseth wrote, referring to a now-moot future where Joe Biden won the election, according to The Guardian. “A national divorce will ensue. Outnumbered freedom lovers will fight back.”
The U.S. armed forces are similarly-minded freedom lovers who would have to “make a choice,” he continued.
If confirmed, Hegseth would lead the Pentagon and assume the second-most powerful position in the military’s chain of command.
Tulsi Gabbard was placed on TSA watch list over her foreign travel and connections, says report
President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be his director of national intelligence, former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, was briefly put on a watchlist by the Transportation Security Administration, according to CNN.
The list leads to certain individuals being chosen for additional screening before flights. She was added to the list after her patterns of travel and foreign connections triggered a government algorithm this year, three sources told the network.
But Gabbard was soon removed from the list, called “Quiet Skies.” Her removal came after she publicly claimed that she had been put on a “secret terror watchlist.”
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Tulsi Gabbard was placed on TSA watch list over her foreign travel, says report
Nominee to be director of national intelligence visited Syrian dictator in 2017 and has made statements echoing Russian propaganda
Trump nominates NFL veteran Scott Turner as HUD secretary
Trump has nominated Scott Turner to serve as his secretary of housing and urban development.
“Scott is an NFL Veteran, who, during my First Term, served as the First Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC), helping to lead an Unprecedented Effort that Transformed our Country’s most distressed communities,” Trump said on Friday night. “Those efforts, working together with former HUD Secretary, Ben Carson, were maximized by Scott’s guidance in overseeing 16 Federal Agencies which implemented more than 200 policy actions furthering Economic Development.”
“After graduating from [the] University of Illinois, Scott was drafted by the Washington Redskins, and spent nine years in the NFL before he went on to win a State House Race in Texas, where he was born and raised,” the president-elect added.
Trump nominates Marty Makary as FDA commissioner
Trump has nominated Marty Makary to be the FDA commissioner, saying in a statement on Friday night that the “FDA has lost the trust of Americans, and has lost sight of its primary goal as a regulator.”
“The Agency needs Dr. Marty Makary, a Highly Respected Johns Hopkins Surgical Oncologist and Health Policy Expert, to course-correct and refocus the Agency,” he added. “He will work under the leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to, among other things, properly evaluate harmful chemicals poisoning our Nation’s food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our Nation’s youth, so that we can finally address the Childhood Chronic Disease Epidemic.”
Trump nominates Dave Weldon as CDC director
Trump announced on Friday night that former Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon has been nominated to serve as his director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“In addition to being a Medical Doctor for 40 years, and an Army Veteran, Dave has been a respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues, and served on the Labor/HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, working for Accountability on HHS and CDC Policy and Budgeting,” Trump said in a statement. “Dave also served in a leading role in Government Oversight and Reform Committee Hearings, addressing issues within HHS and CDC. Dave has successfully worked with the CDC to enact a ban on patents for human embryos.”
Trump claimed Kim Jong Un missed him. The North Korea leader has a different message
On the campaign trail over the summer, Donald Trump claimed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un “misses me,” and that relations between their two countries would improve with a second Trump term.
At a defense expo in Pyongyang this week, the North Korean dictator had a very different message.
“We have already explored every possible avenue in negotiating with the U.S.,” Kim said, according to state media, accusing the U.S. of an “unchanging aggressive and hostile policy” toward the country that’s helped put international affairs into their “most chaotic and violent” state since World War II.
After Trump’s comments about Kim in July, a state news agency said, “No matter what administration takes office in the US, the political climate, which is confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change and, accordingly, we do not care about this.”
Trump announces White House roles for Alex Wong and Sebastian Gorka
Trump has announced that he will appoint Alex Wong as assistant to the president and principal deputy national security adviser, and Sebastian Gorka as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism.
“Alex served during my First Term as the Deputy Special Representative for North Korea, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State,” Trump said.
“As Deputy Special Representative for North Korea, he helped negotiate my Summit with North Korean Leader, Kim Jong Un,” he added.
The president-elect said Gorka has been a “tireless advocate for the America First Agenda and the MAGA Movement” since 2015.
In the first Trump Administration, Gorka served as strategist to the president.
Trump noted that Gorka “is a legal immigrant to the United States, with more than 30 years of National Security experience. In 2015, he was one of my Advisors for the GOP Primary Debates on National Security.”
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