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Topic Started: Nov 9 2016, 10:16 PM (719 Views)
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Now that the election is over and we have a President-elect, it is time to follow the transition from Obama to Trump.....

.....God save the Republic. :devil1:
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(The Guardian) Here’s further on the transfer of power, via the media pool:
--A steady stream of Trump tourists are visiting the lobby of Trump Tower this afternoon.

The New York City Veterans Day parade is over, leading to a slight uptick in tourists, despite the heavy law enforcement presence and security surrounding the building.

Many of them of them are wearing Trump campaign gear or carrying American flags. Several “Hillary for Prison” t-shirts have also been spotted.

A couple of uniformed Army soldiers took pictures with the doorman in front of the building.

The brass Trump Tower logo inside the lobby is a popular place for selfies, as is the fountain.

Tourists have been spotted recreating Trump’s escalator scene, using their phones to film their decent.
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(The Guardian) Pence replaces Christie as head of Trump transition – report
--The Trump transition team gets a major staff reshuffle, two days after the election. Vice-president-elect has replaced New Jersey governor Chris Christie as head of the transition team, the New York Times reports.

Trump wanted Pence to run it owing to his “Washington experience and contacts,” the Times report says. Christie’s in the churn of advisers up and down, fate unclear:

The president-elect told advisers he wanted to tap Mr. Pence’s Washington experience and contacts to help move the process along, according to people familiar with the discussions. An executive committee, which will include members of Congress, will advise Mr. Pence as the process moves forward.

Mr. Christie, along with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, and Michael T. Flynn, a retired lieutenant general who has been a top campaign supporter, will serve as vice chairs of the transition, the sources said.

-Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us/politics/trump-cabinet.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
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--McConnell says his comfort level with Trump is now "quite good" .. and other comments at avail in KY today (Erica Werner, AP Congressional Correspondent - 11 Nov. 2016)
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(The Guardian) The Kushner-Christie feud
--Reminder via nj.com to go with the news of Christie losing his footing in Trumpworld again, after having been passed over as vice president:

In 2004, Christie as U.S. attorney for New Jersey prosecuted the government’s case against [Jared] Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner, the real estate executive, philanthropist and political donor. The elder Kushner pleaded guilty in federal court to 18 felonies, including making illegal campaign contributions and evading taxes.
-Read more: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/07/christies_past_as_corruption_fighting_us_attorney.html

--It is truly amazing if you know NJ politics to see how royally the Kushners are paying back Christie *12 years later* (Steve Kornacki, MSNBC - 11 Nov. 2016)
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(The Guardian) Here’s a statement from team Trump about the Christie demotion. The statement includes an updated list of transition team members.

What follows is all quotation from the statement: President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that Vice President-elect Mike Pence will serve as Chairman of the Presidential Transition Team, and that Dr. Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, USA (Ret.), Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions will join the team’s Executive Committee as Vice Chairs.


President-elect Trump also announced that the following leaders will join the Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee:

Congressman Lou Barletta
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi
Congressman Chris Collins
Jared Kushner
Congressman Tom Marino
Rebekah Mercer
Steven Mnuchin
Congressman Devin Nunes
Anthony Scaramucci
Peter Thiel
Donald Trump Jr.
Eric Trump
Ivanka Trump
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
Trump Campaign CEO Stephen K. Bannon
President-elect Donald J. Trump today also announced that Chief of Staff to U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions, Rick Dearborn, will join the Presidential Transition Team as Executive Director.

Richard Bagger, Executive Director of the Presidential Transition Team during the preparation phase, will return to the private sector but will remain with the Team as an Advisor, as will preparation phase General Counsel Bill Palatucci.

Joining Dearborn on the Presidential Transition Team’s Staff Leadership lineup are:

Kellyanne Conway, Senior Advisor
David Bossie, Deputy Executive Director
Stephen Miller, National Policy Director
Jason Miller, Communications Director
Hope Hicks, National Press Secretary
Dan Scavino, Director of Social Media
Don McGahn, General Counsel
Katie Walsh, Senior Advisor

The Vice President-elect has tapped his three senior advisors, Nick Ayers, Josh Pitcock, and Marc Short, to work alongside him in this process.
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(The Guardian) Giuliani: 'All I do is give advice'
--The Trump media pool catches Rudy Giuliani in the Trump tower lobby: Giuliani exited the elevators at 2:32 - minutes after the Transition shakeup was announced. The new Transition Vice Chair spoke briefly (35 seconds) to reporters.

“Donald has been my friend for 28 years, all my work on behalf of him is done out of great loyalty and friendship to him. I can see already, how he is going to be a great president. And I’m glad I can play a small role.”
Giuliani was asked what kind of advice he offered Trump.
“That I give to him personally,” he replied.


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On what happened upstairs: “Just giving advice. Just giving advice.”

On his role: “I have no expectation. All I do is give my advice.”

He did not respond to question about Christie being layered.
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Politico: Trump Says He's Fine With Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage

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Donald Trump said he is “fine with” same-sex marriage but offered few specifics about his plans for the first 100 days of his administration during his first television interview since becoming the president-elect.

In an extensive interview with CBS’s Leslie Stahl broadcast Sunday night on "60 Minutes," Trump sought to ease the anxieties of LGBTQ Americans that a new conservative Supreme Court majority might overturn last year’s decision legalizing same-sex marriage.

Ducking a question about his personal view on the issue, which he dismissed as “irrelevant,” Trump asserted, bluntly, “it’s done.”

“These cases have gone to the Supreme Court. They’ve been settled. And I’m—I’m fine with that,” he said.

The answer came as Trump attempted to downplay the protests that his election has sparked and blamed any fears held by Muslims and African-Americans not on his own rhetoric or policy proposals but on a biased media.

“I think it's built up by the press, because, frankly, they'll take every single little incident that they can find in this country, which could've been there before,” Trump said. “If I weren't even around doing this, and they'll make into an event because that's the way the press is.”

Trump attempted to dismiss the huge crowds of protesters in several American cities as “professional protesters” and a “small amount” of people. When Stahl asked the president-elect about reports that his supporters are “harassing Latinos [and] Muslims,” Trump did not dispute the reports. Rather, he asked his backers to stop.

“I am so saddened to hear that. And I say, 'Stop it.' If it — if it helps,” Trump said, turning from Stahl to another camera positioned inside his Trump Tower apartment. “I will say this, and I will say right to the cameras: Stop it.”

The interview, which aired Sunday night just hours after Trump’s announcement that he is installing RNC Chairman Reince Priebus as his chief of staff and Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as his chief strategist, offered little clarity about the first 100 days of the president-elect’s administration.

He listed immigration reform, healthcare and tax reform as his top three priorities, and took credit for giving Republicans control of the White House and Congress but offered little clarity about what he and new GOP majorities will focus on first. He promised to follow through and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border—GOP leaders in Congress have already thrown cold water on the idea—but said he would accept “a fence” in places.

Trump told Stahl he is not intimidated or scared by the weight or gravity of the presidency, but he struggled to grapple with some of the likely consequences that would arise if he follows through on many of his campaign promises.

He acknowledged the possible reality of appointing a pro-life Supreme Court majority that could overturn Roe v. Wade. When pressed by Stahl, he agreed that some women will “perhaps have to go—they’ll have to go to another state.”

“And that’s okay?” Stahl responded.

“Well, we’ll see what happens,” Trump said. “It’s got a long way to go, just so you understand. That has a long, long way to go.”

Trump was conciliatory toward Hillary Clinton, hinting that he’d prefer to focus on a policy agenda than pursuing an investigation of his former rival, but he made no firm promises either way. And he told Stahl he does not plan to take a salary or a vacation or to change his unconventional style and communication methods, confirming that he will continue, at least at times, to tweet from his personal account.

“I'll conduct myself—in a very good manner, but depends on what the situation is,” Trump said. “Sometimes you have to be rougher.”
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(The Guardian) Reince Priebus: Steve Bannon 'was a force for good' on the campaign
--Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee and President-elect Donald Trump’s newly named White House chief of staff, appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe today and addressed concerns by Jewish groups about Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon’s new role as chief strategist and senior counselor to the president.

“He was a force for good on the campaign at every level that I saw, all the time,” Priebus said of Bannon. “I’ve only seen a generous, hospitable, wise person to work with.”

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“That’s not the Steve Bannon that I know and I’ve spent a lot of time with him,” Priebus said, when asked about accusations of anti-Semitism against Bannon. “And here’s a guy who’s a Harvard Business School, London School of Economics, 10-year Naval officer advising admirals. He was a force for good on the campaign at every level that I saw, all the time. But look, you know, this is all about achieving president-elect Trump’s agenda and I can assure you - and I think it’s really important and I know that president-elect Trump wants everyone to understand this - that all Americans out there, no matter your race, your gender, your ethnic background, he wants to make you proud of our country. He wants to serve you.”

When pressed on Bannon - whose reign at Breitbart has seen the website become a hotbed of conspiracy theories, racial invective and not-so-coded anti-Semitism - by another panelist, Priebus doubled down, calling him “a generous, hospitable, wise person.”

“Well, I think everyone out there can agree that you judge people as you see them, not as other people have said,” Priebus said. “That’s what I would say, is that it’s what people do, it’s how people act on a day-to-day basis, and that’s nothing I’ve ever seen. I’ve only seen a generous, hospitable, wise person to work with.”
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(The Guardian) From the transition pool: Greetings from the benches opposite the bank of elevators at Trump Tower. At 9:34 am we spotted Steve Mnuchin, a candidate for Treasury Secretary, entering an elevator. Tacked to the back of the elevator was a picture of the President-elect.
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(The Guardian) From the long-suffering transition pool: At 10:55 am Jason Miller, communications advisor to transition, entered the building and walked to the elevators. Pool swarmed him. We asked about timing of future appointments. ‘We’ll let you know as soon as we have something,’ he said. And he was gone. Pool resumed its vigil in the lobby.
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(The Guardian) Speaking with the transition pool at Trump Tower, former Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway - we say “former” because there’s not really a campaign left to manage, is there? - spoke to reporters for roughly five minutes, by far the longest exchange any member of the president-elect’s team has spoken with the press pool since his election last Tuesday.

Conway said that Americans could “possibly” hear about nominations for cabinet secretaries as soon as this week, although she declined to go into specifics.

Of the appointments of RNC chair Reince Priebus as chief of staff and the controversial naming of Breitbart chair Steve Bannon as senior counsel to the president, Conway was positive.

“I’ve worked closely with both of them,” Conway said. “I think it’s a great team. And I’ll continue to work closely with both of them in some capacity to be decided. They complement each other. They both have the most important thing: the ear of the boss.”

On Bannon specifically, Conway was defensive:

I worked very closely with Steve Bannon. He’s been the general of this campaign. And frankly people should look at the full resume. He has got a Harvard business degree. He’s a Naval officer. He has success in entertainment. I don’t know if you’re aware of that. And he certainly was a Goldman Sachs managing partner. Brilliant tactician.

Does Bannon need to do anything to reassure people about his alt-right connections?

I’m personally offended that you think I would manage a campaign where that would be one of the going philosophies. It was not. 56 million-plus Americans or so saw something else. I know people weren’t prepared for us to win. And so we’re reaching around to find extreme examples of - or perhaps those extreme examples of those who support the president.

And on Trump’s Twitter use: “I’ll leave that to him.”
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(The Guardian) From the transition pool: Spotted at Trump Tower heading up on an elevator about 12:30 p.m.: the President-elect’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He did not reply to our questions about the transition. Also spotted: Arizona state treasurer Jeff DeWit, whose Twitter account says he was COO/CFO for Trump campaign. Asked his role in the transition, Mr. DeWit said: ‘Getting things done.’
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(The Guardian) From the long-suffering transition pool in Trump Tower:

At 1:45 p.m., Don Jr and Eric Trump got off the elevators, walked past the pool and descended the escalators to the food court in Trump Tower. One of us asked Don Jr. how things were proceeding and he said, ‘Going well.’ They took seats at a table in the Trump Tower Grille.

While we were focused on that scene, Ivanka Trump apparently walked right by us and joined her brothers at the table. We are now holding near the Trump’s Ice Cream Parlor counter, awaiting further developments and considering whether it’s wise to abandon our post opposite the elevators.

At 2:02 p.m. Hope Hicks walked past us.

This seems to be the place to be.
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Politico: Giuliani - "Trump Definitely Has Mandate"

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Donald Trump will begin his administration with a mandate from the American people, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday morning, even though more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton for president.

“You have the same mandate whether it’s a close result or it isn’t. You’re the president of the United States, you have to act like the president of the United States,” Giuliani said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“You’re the person in charge. You have to set the agenda. That’s how you get yourself reelected by a much bigger number, if you want to get reelected. And that’s the way you govern the country. I mean, the Constitution of the United States doesn’t change the powers of the president based on the number by which you get elected.”

Giuliani said Trump had “a pretty sizeable electoral map win” and suggested that had the Manhattan billionaire campaigned harder in Minnesota, he would have won there as well. Indeed, Trump pulled off a surprising Election Day victory by winning in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, all three of which were considered to be part of Clinton’s impenetrable “blue wall” of states that would deliver her the presidency. None of those three were thought to be seriously in play for Trump.

But despite Trump’s Electoral College total and surprising victory in traditionally Democratic states, he is very likely to lose the popular vote once ballots are officially counted because of the former secretary of state’s wide margin of victory in populous states like New York, California and Illinois. Protests broke out on college campuses and in major cities across the country, including in front of Manhattan’s Trump Tower, with many chanting “not my president” to express their frustration after an election that was among the most divisive in U.S. history.
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(Bloomberg Politics) Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was at Trump Tower discussing job in Donald Trump’s administration, according to person familiar.
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