SNL mocks ‘hot, jacked’ Trump in first post-election episode
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Donald Trump has chosen Florida Senator Marco Rubio to be as his secretary of state in his forthcoming administration as his White Home workforce continues to take form.
The president-elect can also be reportedly making ready to nominate South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to guide the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) and Florida congressman Mike Waltz as his nationwide safety adviser.
On Monday, the Republican introduced that the previous performing director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tom Homan, will are available in as border czar, tasked with enacting the mass deportation of unlawful immigrants he promised on the marketing campaign path.
Trump additionally picked one other anti-immigration hardliner, Stephen Miller – architect of among the most controversial border insurance policies from his first time period, together with household separation – to be his deputy chief of employees for coverage.
New York Republican Consultant Elise Stefanik has been tapped to function ambassador to the UN and ex-congressman Lee Zeldin to steer the Environmental Safety Company.
Trump will meet with Joe Biden on the White Home on Wednesday to debate a transition schedule because the Senate elects a brand new majority chief to interchange the outgoing Mitch McConnell.
Tom Homan threatens governors: ‘They better get the hell out of the way’
Trump’s new border czar was busy making appearances on Fox Information yesterday and struck an uncompromisingly macho word, warning Democratic governors to not intrude together with his deliberate operations and shifting to reassure Sean Hannity that Americans won’t get caught up in all of it.
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 11:20
Will Trump remove the Division of Schooling?
As we’ve seen, the president-elect has been shifting quick in selecting cupboard members, though he has up to now largely centered on posts with duty for nationwide safety.
He has talked about making Elon Musk a commissioner accountable for reducing authorities inefficiency and has recognized the Division of Schooling (DOE) as a transparent goal for cutbacks – and even abolition altogether.
Trump considers the DOE, created by Jimmy Carter in 1979, a supply of pointless interference into American household lives (suppose all of these “woke” tradition conflict battles being fought in Florida faculties about what books are made accessible and the way historical past is taught) and an instance of a poor return on funding for taxpayers.
The Republican complained on the marketing campaign path that the US spends thrice extra money on training than every other nation “and yet we are absolutely at the bottom, we’re one of the worst”.
He additionally bizarrely claimed, with out proof after all, that the DOE is staffed by officers who “in many cases, hate our children” and declared: “We want states to run the education of our children because they’ll do a much better job of it. You can’t do worse.”
The thought for closing the DOE altogether is listed within the Trump marketing campaign’s Agenda47 checklist of election insurance policies and in Undertaking 2025, the Heritage Basis’s 900-page opus making suggestions for a future Republican administration that Trump needed to work arduous to distance himself from throughout the election cycle.
Much less drastic steps are additionally raised within the Agenda47 proposals like reducing funding for faculties that proceed to show important race principle (a operating conservative bugbear) and/or, as they put it, “transgender insanity” or awarding credentials to lecturers who “embrace patriotic values and support the American Way of Life”.
We look like a great distance from any of this taking place nevertheless it’s definitely within the water.
Donald Trump delivers his victory speech in Florida final week (AP)
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 11:00
Trump ally Steve Bannon in court docket at the moment
The president-elect just isn’t the one member of the MAGA-sphere awaiting the scales of justice at the moment.
Trump’s former White Home strategist and staunch ally Steve Bannon returns to a New York courtroom, having solely been launched from federal jail two weeks in the past, upfront of his December trial for allegedly defrauding supporters of the forty fifth president’s try to construct a wall alongside the US-Mexico border.
Bannon, the previous Breitbart editor who’s now primarily a podcaster, pleaded not responsible in 2022 to charges that he defrauded donors to “We Build the Wall”, a web based fundraising effort to lift cash for Trump’s signature coverage.
The appropriate-wing pundit instructed donors each cent they gave would go towards constructing the wall however prospectuses allege among the $15m raised was secretly funnelled to Brian Kolfage, the marketing campaign’s president.
Bannon’s trial is scheduled to start on December 9 however he’s making an attempt to push it into January to present his lawyer additional time to arrange.
Steve Bannon (AP)
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 10:40
Choose set to rule on whether or not to scrap Trump’s conviction in hush cash case
New York Choose Juan Merchan is because of determine at the moment on whether or not to undo the president-elect’s conviction in his hush cash case due to a US Supreme Court docket ruling on presidential immunity.
Choose Merchan, who presided over Trump’s historic trial this spring, is now tasked with deciding whether or not to toss out the jury verdict and order a brand new trial – and even dismiss the costs altogether.
The choose’s ruling additionally might converse as to if the previous and now future commander-in-chief can be sentenced as scheduled on November 26.
The Republican received again the White Home every week in the past however the authorized query issues his standing as a previous president, not an impending one.
A jury convicted Trump in Might of falsifying enterprise data associated to a $130,000 cost to porn actor Stormy Daniels in October 2016.
The payout was to purchase her silence about claims that she had {sex} with Trump.
He says they didn’t, denies any wrongdoing and maintains the prosecution was a political tactic meant to hurt his newest marketing campaign.
Simply over a month after the decision, the Supreme Court docket dominated that ex-presidents can’t be prosecuted for actions they took in the midst of operating the nation and prosecutors can’t cite these actions even to bolster a case centered on purely private conduct.
Trump’s attorneys cited the ruling to argue that the hush cash jury obtained some proof it shouldn’t have, comparable to Trump’s presidential monetary disclosure type and testimony from some White Home aides.
Prosecutors disagreed and mentioned the proof in query was solely “a sliver” of their case.
Trump’s prison conviction was a primary for any ex-president.
It left the 78-year-old going through the potential for punishment starting from a wonderful or probation to as much as 4 years in jail.
Choose Juan Merchan (AP)
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 10:20
Trump ally and election denier Kari Lake loses Arizona Senate race to Ruben Gallego
MAGA Republican Kari Lake has misplaced her race for the Arizona Senate to Democrat Ruben Gallego, who turns into the Grand Canyon State’s first Latino senator.
Gallego’s win helps forestall the GOP additional extending its majority within the higher chamber of Congress and continues his celebration’s profitable run in Arizona over the past decade, the place voters have repeatedly rejected candidates backed by Donald Trump.
Trump himself beat Kamala Harris there in final week’s presidential race, nevertheless, securing his clear sweep of the swing states.
“Gracias, Arizona!” Gallego, 44, wrote on X after his victory was confirmed, thanking the state’s voters for a win that however means Republicans nonetheless maintain 53 of the 100 seats within the Senate.
Gallego is a five-term Home member and a Marine Corps Reserve veteran of the Iraq Warfare, who will substitute Kyrsten Sinema, whose 2018 victory as a Democrat created a method that the celebration has efficiently replicated ever since.
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 10:00
Trump picks New York Republican Lee Zeldin to guide EPA
One final cupboard decide after which we’ll transfer on.
The president-elect is regarded as going for ex-New York congressman Lee Zeldin, a person who “voted against environmental bills 85 percent of the time”, to guide the Environmental Safety Company.
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 09:40
Trump eyeing China hawk Mike Waltz as nationwide safety adviser
One other man who appears set to hitch Trump in Washington DC is Florida Consultant Mike Waltz, who will step into sneakers beforehand worn by HR McMaster, John Bolton and Robert O’Brien if he’s certainly chosen.
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 09:20
President-elect desires Marco Rubio for secretary of state
In one other key appointment, the president-elect has chosen the Florida Republican lawmaker, who was an everyday on the 2024 marketing campaign path with him, to change into the nation’s high diplomat, sources instructed The New York Instances on Monday night.
The Cuban-American, 53, will change into the primary Latino to serve within the function when Trump takes workplace in January.
He’ll face a geopolitical panorama the place a number of US allies are at conflict overseas, together with Ukraine’s protection in opposition to the Russian invasion, and Israel’s battle with Hamas in Gaza.
He’ll even be anticipated to ship on key marketing campaign guarantees which can be nearer to residence, like dramatically reducing unlawful immigration on the US-Mexico border.
Rubio was elected to the Senate in 2010 and was reportedly thought-about as a 2024 operating mate by Trump.
He’s considered as a hawk on each China and Iran and a staunch supporter of Israel.
Right here’s extra from Graeme Massie and Josh Marcus.
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 08:55
Donald Trump faucets South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem for Homeland Safety secretary in new cupboard
The president-elect has chosen South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to guide the Division of Homeland Safety in his forthcoming administration as his White Home workforce continues to take form.
Noem could be greatest identified to thousands and thousands world wide after revealing in her memoir earlier this 12 months that she had shot lifeless her disobedient pet canine Cricket, an anecdote that was seemingly supposed to convey her management qualities however which as an alternative could have value her the prospect to run as Trump’s vice presidential nominee, an honor that as an alternative went to Ohio Senator JD Vance.
Right here’s James Liddell on his newest appointment.
Joe Sommerlad12 November 2024 08:25
Trump’s largest critics are already bracing for retribution
Donald Trump — who baselessly accuses President Joe Biden’s administration of “weaponizing” regulation enforcement and the court docket in opposition to him — will enter workplace on January 20, 2025, with an array of government powers at his fingertips.
He might quickly put together to hunt revenge in opposition to these he believes have wronged him.
Alex Woodward12 November 2024 08:00
