In her last interview Monday night Samantha Bee sit down with Glenn Beck to admit that they are āstrange bedfellows.ā But they are uniting for a common cause ā the fight against āTrumpism.ā āI think that our future is going to require a broad coalition of non-partisan decency,ā said Bee. āItās not just individual people…
Donald Trump received 270 Electoral College votes Monday, officially securing the U.S. presidency. The vote, taken across 50 state capitals, saw few deviations from expected outcomes, with only a few electors voting against their statesā popular votes. Four of Washington stateās 12 electors refused to vote for Hillary Clinton, picking former Secretary of State Colin…
The 538 members of the Electoral College will convene in their respective states Monday to vote for the United States’ next president, a process that is usually little more than a legal formality following the popular vote tally on Election Day. This year, however, last-ditch efforts are ongoing to convince at least 37 Republicans to…
President Barack Obama has promised to ātake actionā against Russia for its alleged hacking campaign during the U.S. presidential election. In excerpts of an interview with NPR released Thursday night, Obama said heās already spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin about revelations of Russiaās meddling in the U.S. presidential election. āI think there is no…
In a tweet posted early Saturday morning, President-elect Donald Trump ripped China for its reported seizure of a U.S. Navy unmanned underwater drone in the South China Sea. Trump called it an “unprecedented act”āspelled “unpresidented” in the initial post saved on Politwoops, which the President-elect later deleted and reposted with the correct spelling. Navy Capt.…
The FBI has backed the CIAās conclusion that Russia intervened in the U.S. presidential election in order to help Donald Trump win, according to The Washington Post, citing U.S. officials. CIA Director John Brennan reportedly sent a memo to CIA employees telling them that āthere is a strong consensusā among he, Comey and Director of…
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday named far-right Israel supporter David Friedman as his pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, a move that angered liberal U.S. Jewish groups. In a statement announcing his decision, Trump said he was confident Friedman would āmaintain the special relationship between our two countries.ā Friedman, a Long Island bankruptcy lawyer who…
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he planned to nominate Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke as secretary of interior. āHe has built one of the strongest track records on championing regulatory relief, forest management, responsible energy development and public land issues,ā Trump said in a statement. āAs a former Navy SEAL, he has incredible leadership…
Twitter was excluded from President-elect Donald Trumpās Wednesday meeting with tech executives as retribution for refusing to allow an emoji version of the hashtag #CrookedHillary during the campaign, Politico reported based on a source close to the situation. While Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Tesla were all represented at the pre-presidential meet-up, Twitterāconsidered Trumpās main source…
Mitt Romney declined to apologize for his past criticism of Donald Trump, costing him a job as secretary of State for the incoming GOP administration, CNN reported on Wednesday. Romney and Trump famously met for dinner to discuss a cabinet role, and despite protestations from top aides Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon, the president-elect continued…
U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News. Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed…
On his latest article posted on his Facebook page Tuesday night Michael Moore blasted Donald Trump for boasting about only attending ātwo or threeā of his daily presidential national-security briefings since being elected president. Read the complete essay below: Donald Trump Is Gonna Get Us Killed by Michael Moore A week has gone by since…
Almost 25 percent of the Democrats that make up the Electoral College have requested an intelligence-community briefing on the purported foreign intervention in the presidential election. Fifty-four of the 232 Democrats in the group have called on Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to authorize such a briefing becore the official vote on Dec. 19.…
Samantha Bee mocked members of the democratic party who focus election loss on identity politics, calling it āthe dismissive term for what we used to call civil rights and equality.ā Bee sarcastically said, āWhen is the left going to fuck off with that greenhouse gas shit and talk about something that effects all of us?ā…
On Tuesday morning, rapper Kanye West was spotted walking into an elevator at Trump Tower in New York City, with an entourage and videographer with him to meet with the Republican president-elect. ā[Kanyeās] meeting with the president-elect,ā Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks wrote in an email. The two scheduled the meeting because Trump āis going to…
Donald Trump has selected Rick Perry to be energy secretary, according to two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process. He had been summoned to Trump Tower for a meeting Monday to discuss the position after having been contacted over the weekend. The meeting was only finalized on Sunday. The other contenders for…
GQ’s ‘The Resistance’ host Keith Olbermann, calls for a special prosecutor to investigate Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 election. He says Donald Trump is a “puppet of Putin.” He says the election of Trump respresents the U.S. losing a war with Russia. “We are no longer a sovereign nation, we are no longer a…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen ExxonMobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson as his nominee to serve as his secretary of State. āRex Tillersonās career is the embodiment of the American dream,ā Trump said in a statement. āThrough hard work, dedication, and smart dealmaking, Rex rose through the ranks to become CEO of ExxonMobil, one of the…
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell has strongly condemned any foreign meddling to influence the U.S. election. McConnell spoke to reporters Monday, a day after President-elect Donald Trump said the recent CIA assertion that Russian hacking had sought to help his candidacy was “ridiculous.” McConnell says that the “Russians are not our friends” and condemned Russian…
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Sunday jumped into the fray about Russian interference in the presidential election, echoing President-elect Donald Trumpās comments that Democrats are simply sore losers. āRussiaās getting out of hand? So says the defeated,ā she wrote on Twitter, apparently skeptical of the CIAās conclusion that Russia intervened to Trumpās benefit. In…
Lockheed Martin Corp. shares drop after President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that costs for the F-35 fighter-jet program, the Pentagonās most expensive weapons system, are āout of control.ā āBillions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th,ā the Monday post continued, referring to inauguration day. The tweet followed similar…
American spy and law enforcement agencies were united in the belief, in the weeks before the presidential election, that the Russian government had deployed computer hackers to sow chaos during the campaign. But they had conflicting views about the specific goals of the subterfuge. Last week, Central Intelligence Agency officials presented lawmakers with a stunning…
China on Monday said it had “serious concern” about President-elect Donald Trump’s most recent comments about Taiwan, which China considers a breakaway province. Since 1979, the U.S. has recognized mainland China and maintained only unofficial relations with the island of Taiwan. Trump recently broke with tradition by accepting a congratulatory phone call from Taiwan’s leader,…
On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump officially nominated retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security. It was reported last week that Trump would tap Kelly, but Trump had not yet formally offered him the position. “Gen. John Kelly’s decades of military service and deep commitment to fighting the threat of terrorism…
Exxon Mobil Corp Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson emerged on Friday as President-elect Donald Trump’s leading candidate for U.S. secretary of state, a senior transition official said. Trump met Tillerson on Tuesday and may talk to him again over the weekend, the official said. Trump appears to be in the final days of deliberations over…
The Trump transition team forcibly repudiated reports late Friday evening that the CIA has concluded with “high confidence” Russia interfered with the U.S. election to help President-elect Donald Trump win. “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” the Trump camp said in an unsigned statement slamming the CIA.…
Newt Gingrich, a previous close adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, appeared on Fox News on Friday to say that it was “weird” for Trump to continue being the executive producer of “The Celebrity Apprentice” while he serves in office. āHe doesn’t need his name in print. Donald J. Trump is going to be the executive…
Sen. Bernie Sanders lashed out at āpathological liarā and President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday. āWhat do you do when you have a president-elect, soon to be president, whoāand I say this not happily but I think most people who observe him would agreeāis a pathological liar, who changes his mind every single day?ā the Vermont…
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. CKE Restaurants owns Hardeeās and Carlās Jr., among other restaurant franchises. Puzder, 66, previously served as an economic adviser to 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, and was…
In Keith Olbermann last video he breaks down the Carrier deal, and he can only come to one conclusion: āWeāve elected a sh*tty businessman.ā First, Olbermann mocks Trumpās insistence that he will slap a 35% tariff on any companies who move their manufacturing businesses overseas, as that is actually the opposite of what he did…
