First would be Donald Trump getting the GOP nomination for the presidency. … She lost to Donald Trump. … for some time, just a figurehead president, with Pence and his cabinet doing all the actual leading.…
Trump.
“Even the U.S., the world’s leading democracy, elected a con artist and would-be dictator as its president.” … Soros said that while the U.S. would prevent Trump from becoming a true authoritarian, his presidency would nonetheless set back the … Soros predicted Trump will appease foreign dictators, sacrificing American principles for his administration’s success.…
This week, between the media flare-ups and the sordid accusations, we had a series of confirmation hearings for the potential Trump … Cabinet. … Carson seems very likely to be formally accepted as HUD Director under Donald Trump.
Retired Gen.…
Sessions, who has emerged as one of Trump’s most polarizing Cabinet selections, began his confirmation hearing Tuesday. … general who doesn’t overstate his record,” said Franken, who endorsed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over Trump…
on the way that Obama’s ethics chief Walter Shaub, who is also an Obama political donor, has elected to publicly belabor Donald Trump … legal authority over Trump’s financial decisions, and the way he as insinuated his office into the pending confirmations of Trump’s cabinet … While ethics in government are important and I don’t think Trump is doing anywhere near enough to diminish the appearance of impropriety…
Dec. 9, 2016 – Betsy DeVos, selected for Education Secretary by President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally, in Grand Rapids … The New York Times have unwittingly made the case for a Trump pick. 2017 is already a barrel of laughs. … The most impressive thing Donald Trump could possibly do with the Department of Education altogether.…
This week marks the beginning of the confirmation process for Trump’s cabinet picks and predictably the left-wing press running around … The New York Times have unwittingly made the case for a Trump pick. 2017 is already a barrel of laughs. … The most impressive thing Donald Trump could possibly do with the Department of Education altogether.…
I guess we got too used to the sudden burst of sanity by Trump in his cabinet nominations and forgot about the leftwing conspiracy … President-elect Donald Trump met with Robert Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic, on Tuesday. … Trump he would chair such a commission, and that their meeting was held at Mr. Trump’s request.…
pay-to-play operation out of the State Department, has inserted itself squarely in the process underway to confirm Donald Trump’s cabinet … aides were looking into the issue on behalf of Trump, his family members or other potential appointees. … And guess what, those rules won’t be finalized until after Trump’s cabinet and sub-cabinet officials have been confirmed so OGE can…
Elizabeth Warren on Saturday called for the Senate to not hold confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks … Cabinet officials must put our country's interests before their own. … The law states that cabinet and sub-cabinet officials have until 30 days after their appointment, that is, their confirmation, to submit…
Their loyalty will be to someone in the White House, not to their cabinet secretary. … What Mattis is doing is shrewd and he’s also one of the very few cabinet secretaries who can pull this off and make it stick. … Trump has invested a lot personal capital in appointing Mattis to be SecDef.…
Shaub, is, if you recall, the guy who used the official account of his agency to troll Donald Trump, the president-elect:
At the … time he knew Trump had not engaged in any divestiture and had said, accurately, that the President is not covered by OGE rules. … In 2009, the Democratically controlled Senate confirmed seven of President Barack Obama’s cabinet picks in a single day.…
Obama rewarded her with a top cabinet post of Secretary of State. … , she relied too heavily on celebrity endorsements than campaigning in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, losing the election to Donald Trump…
, the Russian hacking must have been intended to help
Trump.) … wanted Trump to win. … You don’t have to like Trump to accept that. All we are dealing with here is blue smoke and mirrors. A sham.…
with Chuck Schumer on MSNBC last night with Rachel Maddow, cut number 2:
CS: It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump … For reasons of fundraising alone they have to be seen as fighting Trump tooth and nail. … Cruz then goes on to give Reid credit for Trump’s cabinet and for the next SCOTUS appointments.…
The Left has selected a few of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees to try to tear down before, during, and after the nomination hearings … to paint DeVos as anti-public school, a charge Democrats and activists groups have been throwing at her since she was picked by Trump…
Resistance to Donald Trump is popping up in all kinds of ways. … first book: "Half Onion In A Bag: The Art of the Meal"
— Half An Onion (@HalfOnionInABag) January 21, 2017
Still a better cabinet … The mere fact that Trump is president is a testament to anything being possible.…
Perhaps because of the threat of multiple ethical violations within a Trump administration, there are those who feel Jeff Sessions … As for stepping aside for any Trump investigations, however, Sessions makes a good point. … Sessions further said that he saw no need to recuse himself from voting on other cabinet nominees.…
Republican primaries, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) were the last two so-called “Conservatives” to fall to Donald Trump … international commerce, and my belief that the president is entitled to significant deference when it comes to his choices for the cabinet … Beginning with the decision to betray his base and abandon his principles by endorsing Trump in order to save his re-election in 2018…
Trump is on the record against the FCC’s Open Internet order.”
“Trump is on the record against the FCC’s Open Internet order.” … We have now transitioned from President-elect Trump – to the Trump Administration. … on Trump Administration policy.…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. … (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP)
President Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone on Sunday, a conversation … which Trump described as “very good.”…
President Trump is filling the government’s national security leadership with former military officials and businessmen, rejecting … But the militarization of the Trump foreign policy team is even more concentrated on the White House staff led by national security … Under Obama the cabinet secretaries most affected, Defense, State, and Homeland Security, were go-fers.…
