Donald Trump makes joke about ‘taking on’ the media whereas accepting Time Journal Award
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US President-elect Donald Trump will attend the Military-Navy soccer recreation immediately alongside a set of allies, cupboard picks, and controversial figures.
JD Vance, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Protection Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, and Daniel Penny, who was just lately acquitted in a case over a high-profile 2023 choking on the New York subway, will reportedly be part of Trump for the three p.m. ET matchup at Northwest Area in Landover, Maryland, the a hundred and twenty fifth iteration of the well-known school soccer rivalry between the navy service academies.
Penny put a homeless man who was yelling at passengers right into a chokehold for practically six minutes, killing him, and has grow to be a trigger célèbre on the proper because the incident.
Penny is just not the one controversial visitor. Hegseth has confronted accusations of rape and alcohol abuse, which he denies.
In the meantime, Trump has vowed to scrap Daylight Saving Time (DST) and is reportedly contemplating scrapping a automobile crash reporting requirement that Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk strongly opposes.
Calling DST “inconvenient” and “costly” in a put up on Reality Social on Friday, Trump mentioned: “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate DST, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!”
Trump’s Time particular person of the yr comes with a novel fact-check
Donald Trump’s current designation as Time journal’s Individual of the Yr got here with a novel addition: a prolonged post-interview fact-check.
The journal mentioned Friday no different Individual of the Yr has prompted an analogous fact-check over the practically 100 yr historical past of the annual honor.
The very fact-check probes 15 completely different statements made by the president-elect about immigration, vaccines, and crime.
Josh Marcus14 December 2024 16:10
Why Trump could not need DeSantis as Protection Secretary
Donald Trump is reportedly cooling on the thought of changing his decide to steer the Pentagon, former Fox Information anchor Pete Hegseth, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis’s title entered the image as Hegseth confronted numerous severe misconduct allegations, together with rape and alcohol abuse, each of which he denies.
However Trump’s potential embrace of DeSantis for the place seems to have stalled, in keeping with political reporter Maggie Haberman.
“What changed was a couple of things. One was… Trump could not find a single person in his orbit, or even really outside of it, who liked this idea of making Ron DeSantis — the governor of Florida — the Defense secretary choice,” she advised CNN’s “AC360.”
Right here’s extra on the potential DeSantis nod:
Josh Marcus14 December 2024 15:50
Stress builds to handle thriller lights over Northeast
Officers are ratcheting up the strain to reply to a collection of mysterious lights noticed over New Jersey.
“Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country,” Donald Trump wrote on Reality Social on Saturday. “Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don’t think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!! DJT”
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan mentioned Friday he had “personally witnessed” the lights.
Officers have mentioned they’re investigating the phenomenon, however have been unable to corroborate studies of unauthorized drones over New Jersey.
“Upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully,” Nationwide Safety Council John Kirby mentioned earlier this week.
The Pentagon has mentioned it doesn’t imagine the lights are “coming from a foreign entity or adversary.”
Josh Marcus14 December 2024 15:32
Greater than a dozen Democrats to skip Trump inauguration
Greater than a dozen Democrats are reportedly planning to skip Donald Trump’s January 20 inauguration.
Lawmakers advised Axios their causes ranged from anger over the January 6, 2021, revolt on the Capitol to feeling unsafe round a mass of Trump supporters.
“For somebody who he said he’s going to lock me up, I don’t see the excitement in going to see his inauguration,” former Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson of Mississippi mentioned.
Josh Marcus14 December 2024 15:08
Trump made a controversial promise in regards to the Center East. However it may not be so far-fetched
What does the Center East seem like below Trump 2.0?
The president-elect is because of take workplace in only a few weeks, having ceaselessly attacked Joe Biden — and later Kamala Harris — for supposedly having did not cease the 2 bloody conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza from breaking out below their watch. On prime of that, he additionally made two lofty guarantees whereas campaigning: that he would finish the battle in Ukraine shortly upon taking workplace; and that he would carry a “lasting peace” to the Center East.
The latter promise was made throughout an interview with a Saudi information channel, Al-Arabiya, in October.
John Bowden14 December 2024 14:00
Nevada ‘fake electors’ hit with recent charges months after case was dismissed
The Nevada legal professional basic has charged six Republicans with submitting falsified paperwork to Congress declaring President-elect Donald Trump the winner of the important thing swing state in 2020.
Nevada Lawyer Normal Aaron Ford argues the defendants signed off on false Electoral Faculty votes for Trump in 2020 although he misplaced Nevada by greater than 30,000 votes. There was no proof of widespread voter fraud in Nevada throughout the 2020 election, Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske mentioned on the time.
Katie Hawkinson14 December 2024 13:00
Trump vows to scrap daylight financial savings time and appears to axe automobile crash regulation that highlights Tesla
US President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to scrap Daylight Saving Time (DST) and is reportedly contemplating scrapping a automobile crash reporting requirement that Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk stongly opposes.
Calling DST “inconvenient” and “costly” in a put up on Reality Social on Friday, Trump mentioned: “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate DST, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!”
In the meantime, axing the automobile crash regulation may hamstring the federal government’s capability to successfully examine collisions and regulate the protection of autos with self-driving techniques, reminiscent of Musk’s Teslas and Cybertrucks, in keeping with Reuters, which considered a brand new doc reportedly proposing the removing. It will seemingly immediately profit Tesla, which has reported the vast majority of crashes – greater than 1,500 – to federal security regulators below this system.
Tara Cobham14 December 2024 12:02
Inspector basic’s Jan. 6 report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup
Social media customers are misrepresenting a report launched Thursday by the Justice Division inspector basic’s workplace, falsely claiming that it’s proof the FBI orchestrated the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
The watchdog report examined numerous areas, together with whether or not main intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether or not the FBI indirectly provoked the violence. Claims spreading on-line give attention to the report’s discovering that 26 FBI informants have been in Washington for election-related protests on Jan. 6, together with three who had been tasked with touring to town to report on others who have been probably planning to attend the occasions.
Though 17 of these informants both entered the Capitol or a restricted space across the constructing throughout the riot, not one of the 26 whole informants have been approved to take action by the bureau, in keeping with the report. Nor have been they approved to in any other case break the legislation or encourage others to take action.
Right here’s a more in-depth have a look at the information.
Melissa Goldin14 December 2024 12:00
LA Instances billionaire proprietor killed op-ed that was essential of Trump’s cupboard picks, report says
Los Angeles Instances proprietor Dr. Patrick Quickly-Shiong killed an opinion column that was essential of President-elect Donald Trump’s current Cupboard picks, telling his paper’s editorial board that it may solely publish the piece if it additionally ran an editorial with an opposing view, in keeping with The New York Instances.
The spiked column was set to be printed within the outlet’s Sunday newspaper and web site on November 24. Quickly-Shiong intervened simply hours earlier than the op-ed was scheduled to be despatched to the printer, prompting the editors to tug the piece because the deadline approached.
Justin Baragona14 December 2024 11:00
WATCH: Larry Kudlow awkwardly does the Trump dance
Larry Kudlow awkwardly does the Trump dance
Gustaf Kilander14 December 2024 10:00
