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riversedge's JournalTrump tweets his busines transitions is not complex but his aide tweets it is....
Blake Hounshell Verified account
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Transition aides said today's news conference was delayed because it was so complicated.
Blake Hounshell added,
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The media tries so hard to make my move to the White House, as it pertains to my business, so complex - when actually it isn't!
7:57 AM - 15 Dec 2016
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Trump: "I will get the Gulf states to give us lots of money and we'll...build safe zones in Syria so
umm.... Trump was in his manic phase in Hershey PA last night.
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Fox News ?@FoxNews 12h12 hours ago
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.@realDonaldTrump: "I will get the Gulf states to give us lots of money and we'll...build safe zones in Syria so people can have a chance."
https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/809571010722877445
Clinton aide Abedin seeks to review Clinton emails search warrant
Source: Reuters
6 hrs ago
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Abedin, aide to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Clinton, attends campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina © REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo Abedin, aide to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Clinton, attends campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina
Huma Abedin, the longtime aide to Hillary Clinton, asked a U.S. judge on Wednesday to allow her to review a search warrant the FBI used to gain access to emails related to Clinton's private server shortly before the Nov. 8 presidential election.
In a letter filed in Manhattan federal court, Abedin said she was never provided a copy of the warrant, nor was her estranged husband, former Democratic U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner, whose computer contained the emails in question.
The letter was filed as a federal judge considers whether to unseal the application for the search warrant, which was obtained after FBI Director James Comey informed Congress of newly discovered emails on Oct. 28.
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U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel had invited affected parties to weigh in on the potential release of the search warrant application, which is being sought by Los Angeles-based lawyer Randol Schoenberg........................
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/clinton-aide-abedin-seeks-to-review-clinton-emails-search-warrant/ar-AAlCvq2
Coalition of 24 states urges Trump to kill Obama's carbon emission plan
Source: Reuters
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak during a USA Thank You Tour event at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania © REUTERS/Lucas Jackson U.S. President-elect Donald Trump arrives to speak during a USA Thank You Tour event at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania
Officials in 24 states have urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to kill the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's strategy to combat climate change and shut down coal-fired power plants.
The coalition requested the incoming Republican government undo the Clean Power Plan enacted by the current Democratic administration. The law was designed to lower carbon emissions mainly from coal-fired power plants by 2030 to 32 percent below 2005 levels.
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The group, headed by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, suggests Congress take action to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from drafting similar regulations in the future.
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Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coalition-of-24-states-urges-trump-to-kill-obamas-carbon-emission-plan/ar-AAlCtHs
The article does not list the states involved
NOW: Protestors Being Arrested as North Carolina Republican Lawmakers Attempt Coup Over Incoming De
Source: newcivilrights
NOW: Protestors Being Arrested as North Carolina Republican Lawmakers Attempt Coup Over Incoming Democratic Governor
by David Badash
December 15, 2016 5:23 PM
About 6 Reportedly Arrested Including Local Lawmaker, Reporter
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory fought the election results for a month, but in the end the longtime Republican with deep ties to GOP state lawmakers conceded to his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Roy Cooper. On Wednesday, Republican lawmakers, concluded a special session called by McCrory, and with nearly no notice, opened a new special session to address "emergencies."
Those emergencies included 28 bills, but were focused on just one: legislation that would strip the incoming Democratic governor of much of his power.
Right now, police are arresting protestors in the state house who are calling the Republicans' actions a veritable coup. Among those arrested is a local city council person:
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Read more: http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/now_protestors_being_arrested_as_north_carolina_republican_lawmakers_attempt_coup_over_incoming_democratic_governor?recruiter_id=2&utm_content=buffer19548&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
GO Protesters!!
NC NAACP
?@ncnaacp
Chapel hill city council person Maria Palmer has just been arrested #RespectOurVote #ncga #ncpol
Andrew Hill @JapAnDrewDC
The #NCGA is now arresting protesters who were speaking out against the @NCGOP coup. #ncpol #RespectOurVote https://twitter.com/ncnaacp/status/809520462489354240 …
4:11 PM - 15 Dec 2016
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Nancy Pelosi is now calling for an Independent commission to Investigate the Russian Hacking.
I think the one she called for the other day was for a Congressional Investigation--and she, at that time, called out Paul Ryan to do so also.
Nancy Pelosi ?@NancyPelosi 55m55 minutes ago
Russia's attempts to undermine our democracy have grown alarmingly serious. We need a bipartisan, ind. commission. https://goo.gl/Hx3y9V
Conway has her knickers in a wad!: WH 'incredibly irresponsible' 4 suggesting Trump knew of Russia
Kelly's outrage gets more silly as the days pass.
Conway has her knickers in a wad!: White House 'incredibly irresponsible' for suggesting Trump knew of Russian hacking
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-russia-hacking-kellyanne-conway-232673
By Louis Nelson
12/15/16 08:10 AM EST
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest’s assessment that President-elect Donald Trump may have known about Russian cyberattacks targeting the U.S. electoral process was “breathtaking” and “very unfortunate,” Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said Thursday morning.
Speaking at his daily press briefing, Earnest referenced a remark Trump made at his most recent formal press conference, held in July, when he publicly invited Russian hackers to search for emails deleted from the personal server of Hillary Clinton.
Trump later said he was being sarcastic when he made the remark, but Earnest said Wednesday that the comment “might be an indication that he was obviously aware and concluded, based on whatever facts or sources he had available to him, that Russia was involved and their involvement was having a negative impact on his opponent’s campaign.” Conway took exception to the press secretary’s comment in an interview Thursday morning on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends.”
“That is just remarkable. That is breathtaking. I guess he's auditioning to be a political pundit after his job is over soon. That is incredibly disappointing to hear from the podium of the White House press secretary,” she said. “Because he basically — he essentially stated that the president-elect had knowledge of this, maybe even fanned the flames. It's incredibly irresponsible and I wonder if his boss, president Obama agrees.”.................
Earnest: Trump may have known Russia behind hacking before Election Day
By Nolan D. McCaskill
Trump attacked Vanity Fair because they gave his restaurant a bad review:
She has a way with words.
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Trump attacked Vanity Fair because they gave his restaurant a bad review:
Trump Grill Could Be the Worst Restaurant in America
And it reveals everything you need to know about our next president.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/12/trump-grill-review?mbid=social_twitter
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Tina Nguyen
December 14, 2016 3:02 pm
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Left, Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, New York City; Right, a view of Trump Grill and its patrons.
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Halfway through a recent late lunch at the Trump Grill—the clubby steakhouse in the lobby of Trump Tower that has recently become famous through the incessant media coverage of its namesake landlord, and the many dignitaries traipsing through its marbled hall to kiss his ring—I sensed the initial symptoms of a Trump overdose. Thanks to an unprecedented influx of diners, we were sitting at a wobbly overflow table outside the restaurant, in the middle of a crush of tourists, some of whom were proposing to their partners, or waiting to buy Trump-branded merchandise, or sprinting to the bathroom.
As my companions and I contemplated the most painless way to eat our flaccid, gray Szechuan dumplings with their flaccid, gray innards, as a campy version of “Jingle Bells” jackhammered in the background, a giant gold box tied with red ribbon toppled onto us. Trump, it seemed, was already fighting against the War on Christmas.
Donald Trump is “a poor person’s idea of a rich person,” Fran Lebowitz recently observed at The Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit. “They see him. They think, ‘If I were rich, I’d have a fabulous tie like that.’” Nowhere, perhaps, does this reflection appear more accurate than at Trump Grill (which is occasionally spelled Grille on various pieces of signage). On one level, the Grill (or Grille), suggests the heights of plutocratic splendor—a steakhouse built into the basement of one’s own skyscraper.
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Generic scenes of pastoral life and cuckoldry inside Trump Grill.
Photograph by Tina Nguyen.
On another level, Trump Grill falls somewhat short of that lofty goal. The restaurant features a stingy number of French-ish paintings that look as though they were bought from Home Goods. Wall-sized mirrors serve to make the place look much bigger than it actually is. The bathrooms transport diners to the experience of desperately searching for toilet paper at a Venezuelan grocery store. And like all exclusive bastions of haute cuisine, there is a sandwich board in front advertising two great prix fixe deals.
The allure of Trump’s restaurant, like the candidate, is that it seems like a cheap version of rich. The inconsistent menus—literally, my menu was missing dishes that I found on my dining partners’—were chock-full of steakhouse classics doused with unnecessarily high-end ingredients. The dumplings, for instance, come with soy sauce topped with truffle oil, and the crostini is served with both hummus and ricotta, two exotic ingredients that should still never be combined. The menu itself would like to impress diners with how important it is, randomly capitalizing fancy words like “Prosciutto” and “Julienned” (and, strangely, ”House Salad”).....................
Lindsey Graham, on Trumps comment: "If it was a 400 pound guy, it was a 400 pound Russian guy."
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Lindsey Graham ?@LindseyGrahamSC 21h21 hours ago
If you don't go after Russia for hacking during 2016 election you're inviting other bad actors (China, N. Korea, Iran, etc.) to do the same.
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Phil Mattingly ?@Phil_Mattingly 22h22 hours ago
Lindsey Graham, on Trump's comments about the origin of the Russian hack: "If it was a 400 pound guy, it was a 400 pound Russian guy."
Shaheen questions whether Trump national security adviser pick should get secret clearance
Source: New Hampshire Union Leader
December 15. 2016
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, and a colleague called upon the nation’s law enforcement and personnel management executives to review whether President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be national security adviser should have a top secret clearance.
Shaheen and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., wrote to the FBI director, White House director of personnel management and director of national intelligence questioning whether Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn should have this exclusive access to U.S. secrets given claims that Flynn leaked documents and owns a private intelligence company that has built-in conflicts of interest to his upcoming job.
“Based on public reports, his conduct in positions that require access to national defense information, and his subsequent private practice, appears inconsistent with the professionalism such access requires,” Shaheen and Blumenthal wrote.
“General Flynn reportedly has a record of mishandling classified intelligence and repeatedly violated rules for protecting sensitive information.”
- See more at: http://www.unionleader.com/politics/Shaheen-questions-whether-Trump-national-security-adviser-pick-should-get-secret-clearance-12152016#sthash.mETLpYN3.dpuf...................
Read more: http://www.unionleader.com/politics/Shaheen-questions-whether-Trump-national-security-adviser-pick-should-get-secret-clearance-12152016
Thank you Sen. Shaheen and Blumentha!
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