What has Trump done now?

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Elon Musk Reportedly Gets in Blowout Fight With Trump Adviser at Mar-a-Lago Dinner

 

It's only been a few weeks since Elon Musk's money helped bring Donald Trump back to the White House — and already, the billionaire seems to be causing problems.

 

According to insiders who spoke to Axios, Musk and Donald Trump's indicted lawyer Boris Epshteyn got into what the outlet's sources described as a "massive blowup" and a "huge explosion" at Mar-a-Lago last week over the president-elect's Cabinet picks, of all things.

 

Those sources said that the row occurred in front of other guests at Trump's Florida mansion as Musk accused Epshteyn of intentionally leaking picks to the press. The attorney rebutted that he had no idea what the billionaire was talking about — but onlookers, including those within Trump's orbit, were well aware of what the fight was really about.

 

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Americans to receive 'sobering education' on 'dangerous' one-party rule in 2025: analyst

 

The 2024 election was a major blow for Democrats not only because of President-elect Donald Trump's decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, but also, because Republicans flipped the U.S. Senate and held their small majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

 

The United States' federal government has plenty of checks and balances, and both Republicans and Democrats play a role in that. But in an article published by Salon on November 18, Austin Sarat — an Amherst College professor who focuses on criminal justice and political science — warns that in 2025, Americans can expect a sobering education on the evils of "one-party rule."

 

"The 2024 election has installed a regime of one-party government in Washington," Sarat explains. "Come January 20, the presidency, the Senate, and the House of Representatives will all be controlled by Republicans, many of whom are dedicated foot soldiers in President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA movement. Add to this the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority, which has already shown itself willing to turn the Constitution upside down to serve the interests of the president-elect."

 

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[Marty_d]

It's July 1933 all over again.

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Trump names Dr. Mehmet Oz to head Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

 

President-elect Donald Trump has picked Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

 

“I have known Dr. Oz for many years, and I am confident he will fight to ensure everyone in America receives the best possible Healthcare, so our Country can be Great and Healthy Again!” Trump said in a statement on Tuesday.

 

Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and television personality, ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2022 in Pennsylvania with Trump’s backing. He lost to Democratic now-Sen. John Fetterman.

 

In 2018, Trump appointed Oz to the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, reappointing him to the position in 2020.

 

Oz rose to fame as a frequent guest of Oprah Winfrey, eventually launching his own syndicated daytime TV talk show in 2009. Through “The Dr. Oz Show,” which won several daytime Emmy awards and reached millions of viewers, Oz became one of the most well-known doctors in the country.

His views on Covid-19, however, sparked controversy. Early on in the pandemic, for instance, Oz talked up the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a way to treat the coronavirus — despite the lack of firm scientific evidence that it was an effective treatment.

 

While many of those perspectives were praised by Republicans at the time, Oz before running for Senate regularly supported health insurance mandates and promoted Obamacare, CNN’s KFile reported — taking unusual positions for a GOP candidate.

 

As a physician, for example, Oz advocated that everyone in America have insurance and said the government should provide health care coverage to Americans who cannot afford it. “It should be mandatory that everybody in America have healthcare coverage. If you can’t afford it, we have to give it to you,” Oz told The Seattle Times in 2009.

 

Oz, who is an advocate of alternative medicines and treatments, has been skewered by the medical community for years. In 2015, a group of physicians wrote Columbia University, saying they were “dismayed” Oz was a member of the school’s faculty. And in 2014, Oz was scolded by senators during a congressional hearing over his promotion of weight-loss products on his television show.

 

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Donald Trump's hush money sentencing is called off

 

Donald Trump's sentencing in his New York hush money case has been called off as the court decides how to move forward after his astounding reelection victory.

 

According to a short court note, the sentencing scheduled for later this month on November 26 has been indefinitely 'adjourned.'   

 

It comes as Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg argued that the hush money case against President-elect Donald Trump should proceed. But he also stunningly acknowledged that his prosecutors may need to pause the case as Trump is set to enter the White House.

 

'We would not oppose [Trump's] request for a stay of further proceedings,' prosecutors wrote in a filing Tuesday.

 

Bragg writes that prosecutors 'deeply respect the office of the president, are mindful of the demands and obligations of the presidency, and acknowledge that defendant’s inauguration will raise unprecedented legal questions.'

 

The case could be delayed until after Trump exits the White House in four years or be dismissed outright.  

 

The Trump team immediately declared victory after the DA's admission. 

 

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[old man emu]

Leave the sentencing on the books until January 2029 when his presidential term ends. Then he can go from the White House to the Big House.

[nomadpete]

8 minutes ago, old man emu said:

Leave the sentencing on the books until January 2029 when his presidential term ends. Then he can go from the White House to the Big House.

More likely by then a pine box might be appropriate after the stress of 4 years in the top job combined with 4 years of his alleged eating habits.

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The largest percentage of questiions on Google in the four days since the election are "can I change my vote?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Too late she cried as she waved her  wooden leg. . Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. . Conned by an expert in FAKERY. . Dog must be laughing. Nev

[nomadpete]

18 minutes ago, facthunter said:

....... Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. . Conned by an expert in FAKERY. . Dog must be laughing. Nev

Are you referring to the inrush of candidates taking up key positions around DJT.

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 03:14 AM by nomadpete
FFS + careles keystrokes

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Trump names former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary

 

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named Linda McMahon, a former World Wrestling Entertainment executive who served in the first Trump administration, as his pick to lead the Education Department.

 

If she is confirmed by the Senate, McMahon would oversee a department that Trump said he planned to “get rid” of as it currently exists and allow each state to individually “handle education.”

 

“As Secretary of Education, Linda will fight tirelessly to expand 'Choice' to every State in America, and empower parents to make the best Education decisions for their families,” Trump said in a statement that described McMahon as a “fierce advocate for Parents’ Rights.”

 

McMahon reposted Trump's announcement, which had been shared by his campaign, on X. Earlier in the day she joined Trump and Elon Musk, who was named as a co-chair of a new “Department of Government Efficiency,” at the SpaceX Starship launch in Texas.

 

McMahon, 76, is a co-chair of Trump's presidential transition team. She was head of the Small Business Administration during his first presidency before she stepped down from the Cabinet-level post in 2019 to lead the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC. 

 

Before she joined the first Trump administration, McMahon served on the Connecticut State Board of Education in 2009, before she resigned to make unsuccessful bids in 2010 and 2012 for U.S. Senate seats in the state.

 

McMahon was one of Trump's top donors during the 2024 campaign — contributing more than $20 million to the Make America Great Again Inc. super PAC, as well as $937,800 to his campaign and affiliated joint fundraising committees. She is married to former World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon.

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1 hour ago, red750 said:

she stepped down from the Cabinet-level post in 2019 to lead the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC. 

If we pass the new donation limiting legislation in Australia,  we will simply push the hidden money away to something like the USA super PAC.

 

An arms length money system that is outside the legislation.

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Trump: ‘No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!’

 

President-elect Trump on Tuesday called for the Senate to stop confirming judges before he is sworn into office, amid a frantic effort from Democrats to confirm President Biden’s nominees.

 

“The Democrats are trying to stack the Courts with Radical Left Judges on their way out the door. Republican Senators need to Show Up and Hold the Line — No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

 

Senate Democrats held late-night votes Monday to confirm Biden’s picks to the federal judiciary.

 

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told colleagues on the Senate floor Monday to confirm as many judicial nominees as they can before the new year, which could mean weekend and Christmas recess votes for the upper chamber.

 

Republicans tried to drag out the process Monday night by forcing Democrats to hold time-consuming votes on procedural motions to switch from executive to legislative session and back again.

 

The White House called out Trump and Republicans for trying to slow down confirmations at the end of the year, arguing that Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), who was elected Senate GOP leader, considered it a priority to confirm Trump’s judicial nominees before the end of his last administration.

 

“Regardless of party, the American people expect their leaders to fight for the rule of law and to ensure the criminal justice system can function effectively in every state. Delaying the confirmation of highly qualified, experienced judges takes a real-life toll on constituents and leads to backlogs of criminal cases — meaning Senator Thune was correct in 2020 when he said senators have every urgent reason to continue working together in good faith to staff the federal bench. There is no excuse for choosing partisanship over enforcing the rule of law,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement.

 

As of Monday afternoon, the Democrat-controlled Senate had confirmed 216 of Biden’s Article III judicial nominees. During Trump’s four years in office, Republicans confirmed 234 of his nominees to the federal courts.

 

A few dozen Biden nominees are still pending, according to The Associated Press.

 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently urged Schumer in a Time magazine op-ed to “use every minute of the end-of-the year legislative session to confirm federal judges and key regulators — none of whom can be removed by the next president.”

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Trump stacked them Last time. I doubt you could even make it even.  It's looking like A MAFIA show more as time passes..Nev

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'Defy the president?' Analyst claims Trump loyalty test could backfire in his face

 

Donald Trump has demanded that Republican senators step aside and allow his controversial Cabinet nominees to waltz into their positions unimpeded — but they're privately bristling at the challenge to their authority, according to a new report.

 

The president-elect wants both houses of Congress to call themselves into recess so he can appoint his Cabinet without confirmation hearings, but Axios correspondent Hans Nichols reported that GOP senators are not exactly eager to give up their advise-and-consent role — especially in the case of attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz.

 

"That's the open question, and I think, you know, all of us reporters, it's incumbent upon us to kind of get a sense of how intense this battle is," Nichols told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

 

"It's an institutional battle between the Senate and the presidency, and the battle is joined. When the president of the United States starts personally call senators, really leaning on them, there's no way out of that sort of showdown, and there is a lot that's interesting about this."

 

Senators are especially concerned about Gaetz, who resigned immediately upon his nomination last week and prevented the House Ethics Committee from releasing a report on its investigation into sex trafficking allegations against the Florida Republican.

 

"It's interesting Trump didn't apparently really call any senators before he made these nominations," Nichols said. "He's making these calls after he's already sent them, so not a whole lot of advising in the advise-and-consent part. Two, we have to see what the senators actually say when they get pressed and pushed by Donald Trump. We talked to Sen. [Kevin] Cramer (R-ND). He said Trump is very persuasive, but you know, everyone at the table knows senators don't like being told what to do."

 

"They like their prerogatives and they want to see the report, to see the contents of that ethics report," Nichols added, "and they say they want to give Gaetz a fair hearing, but they want to know what's actually in there, and it's pretty clear whether or not it's the entire report or just the contents of the report, that a lot of the details will come out and then it's just up to the senators. Are they willing to defy the president that just handed them the majority?"

[facthunter]

He's USED the Reps Party and now he has no use for them now that he is the Chief Pooh Bah. Blind Freddy could see that coming. Trump Humps and Dumps. That's HOW HE works. Is it possible the facts might sink in HIS "I would DIE for you admirers".???   Nev

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A bigger crook than Al Capone.

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He posted on social media  -  I"'m ba - ack. Did you miss me?"

 

One of the many comments:      "In order to miss someone you must care about them and they have to be absent. He's like herpes, always present even when not visible and just as welcome."

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Donald Trump's New ‘Nepotism’ Line Has Critics In Disbelief

 

President-elect Donald Trump’s claim that no-one mentioned the issue of cronyism when his daughter-in-law Lara Trump was installed earlier this year as the co-chair of the Republican National Committee was met with mockery on social media.

 

“And then we got Lara involved. And nobody said, ‘Oh gee, nepotism.’ They actually said, ‘I can’t believe she’s doing it,’” Trump told an audience at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.

 

The PatriotTakes monitoring group shared video of Trump’s comments online.

 

But nepotism was most certainly talked about on many, many, many, many occasions about Lara Trump, who is married to Trump scion Eric Trump, taking one of the RNC’s top roles.

 

Critics suggested it was more proof of gaslighting from Trump, who The Washington Post reported made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his first term.

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Bob Woodward Recalls What Donald Trump Told Him In 2016 And Why ‘We Better Be Frightened’

 

Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward on Tuesday remembered what President-elect Donald Trump once told him in 2016 about his idea of power, and explain what it could mean for Americans during Trump’s second term.

 

“Asked about power, what is power, and he [Trump] said ‘Real power is … I even don’t like to use the word … but real power is fear,’” Woodward recalled to CNN’s Laura Coates.

 

“That’s something Trump realized eight years ago, maybe all of his life, and realizes now, you have to scare people,” Woodward added.

 

Trump is “going to be president for four years” and “having chronicled 10 presidents going back to Nixon, they have extraordinary power and Trump’s going to use it,” Woodward said later.

 

“He used it his first term, maybe not adequately from his own point of view, so he’s going to use it and we better be frightened,” he added.

 

During an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, meanwhile, Woodward said Trump risked squandering the goodwill that is often given to incoming presidents with his controversial Cabinet picks.

 

“If he’s just going to throw sand in the eyes of his own party and rationality, he’s going to defeat himself, in a way,” suggested Woodward, who has interviewed Trump multiple times for his books.

 

 

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Los Angeles passes ‘sanctuary city’ ordinance after Trump vows mass deportations

 

The Los Angeles City Council passed a “sanctuary city” ordinance Tuesday unanimously to protect immigrants after President-elect Trump vowed to begin mass deportations.

 

The ordinance passed on a 13-0 vote Tuesday after it was drafted more than a year ago. The ordinance will codify the protection of migrants in municipal law.

 

At the council meeting, members of the public expressed concern for the next Trump administration and a desire to protect the city’s immigrant population.

 

Pro-immigrant protesters spoke on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall before the vote, chanting in Spanish, “What do we want? Sanctuary. When do we want it? Now,” Reuters reported.

 

“Sanctuary cities” generally refer to local areas that “decline to cooperate completely with the federal detention requests related to undocumented immigrants,” according to Britannica.

 

On Monday, Trump signaled he would declare an immigration national emergency and use military assets to support mass deportation.

 

In September, Trump said if he won the election he would call on Congress to pass legislation banning sanctuary cities.

 

“As soon as I take office, we will immediately surge federal law enforcement to every city that is failing, which is a lot of them, to turn over criminal aliens, and we will hunt down, capture every single gang member, drug dealer, rapist, murderer and migrant criminal that is being illegally harbored,” he said at a campaign rally in North Carolina.

 

“I will ask Congress to pass a law outlawing sanctuary cities nationwide,” Trump said.

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The America-attacking Trump is coming for our military — and then he's coming for us | Opinion

Opinion by D. Earl Stephens 

 

Iconsidered waiting to publish this dire warning about what will be coming in the wake of the America-attacking Trump’s inauguration in two months, because too many good people are being asked to process too many terrible things right now.

 

This simply had to be put to paper, though, because I would be remiss if I didn’t urgently warn you that Trump’s takeover of our military is at the top of his dirty to-do list, and at the tip of his toxic spear in his quest to murder our Democracy.

 

Once you understand that Trump will use his presidency and whatever is left of his miserable life to settle scores and return the favors of the crooked dictators, and slobbery weaklings in his political party, who helped put him back in office, you can better prepare for the hell that’s most assuredly coming.

 

You can never say you weren't warned, because if you believe nothing else I type today, you damn well better believe this:

 

• NOTHING
• Trump does with our military will be to protect the citizens of the United States of America.
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• EVERYTHING
• Trump does with our military will be to protect himself from the citizens of the United States of America.

 

Please read that again, and bookmark it.

 

By words and by deed it is clear as day that Trump has absolutely no respect for the United States of America he violently assaulted, or our men and women who wear the uniform, because like any authoritarian leader he sees them as servants to him, and not our country.

 

The flashing red lights are everywhere, and our pathetic and complicit corporate media are still by and large ignoring them and missing in action.

 

As Trump begins his assault on our freedoms, senior general and flag officers will be his primary targets, because he sees them as a threat to his unchecked power — impediments to allowing him to rain hell on anybody who disagrees with him. He has called our generals and admirals “woke, weak, and ineffective leaders,” and has said repeatedly he knows how to do their jobs better than they do.

He intends to make these men and women bend the knee to him, or else.

 

In his first term, the despicable Trump thought he could make military leaders like Generals Jim Mattis and John Kelly see things his way by appointing them to this staff. He called them, “my generals.” When that didn't quite happen, he had somebody else fire them, because he was too gutless to, or they simply quit, because they could no longer surrender their dignity to such a fragile, evil little man.

 

You’ll remember that throughout that first presidency, which just had to be his last, he was dying to have tanks roll down the streets of Washington, D.C., because there’s no sense being completely inadequate unless your are going to show it to the entire world.

 

Trump is wasting no time with his second chance to destroy America, and chillingly confirmed on Monday that he intends to declare a national emergency as soon as he assumes office, and will use our military to assist in the mass deportations of illegal immigrants in our country.

 

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RFK Jnr teams up with Aussie anti-vax TV chef to write healthy cookbook for children

 

Incoming US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has enlisted axed Aussie TV chef and conspiracy theorist Pete Evans to help tackle America's dire youth obesity epidemic. 

 

The divisive duo, who bonded over their anti-vaxxer views during the global pandemic, have teamed up to release a new culinary guide aimed at improving children's unhealthy eating habits.

 

The Evans-penned cookbook, Healthy Food for Healthy Kids, boasts it will include 120 'paleo- and keto-friendly meals that your kid will love' when it is published by Kennedy's activist group the Children's Health Defense on January 28. 

 

The release will mark the 'cancelled' TV star's first return to culinary writing since his former publisher, Pan MacMillan, scrapped Evan's book deal after he posted a cartoon depicting a neo-Nazi symbol on social media. 

 

It also comes after his last similarly themed recipe book aimed at children, Bubba Yum Yum: The Paleo Way, was met with widespread controversy, and had its release date delayed, amid claims it promoted a restrictive and potentially deadly diet.

 

Evans credited his close friend RFK Jr with personally lining up the deal after announcing the upcoming launch to his 41,000 followers on the Telegram messaging app. 

 

'So please and thankful that Robert Kennedy Jr set this up for me, with his Children's Health Defense team,' the 51-year-old said. 'Stay tuned for more.'

 

Since joining Donald Trump's campaign in August, Kennedy has become one of the president-elect's staunchest - and most trusted - advisors, even share McDonald's with Trump, his eldest son, Don Jr, and Elon Musk.

[old man emu]

When I started this thread, I did not think that it would be the means of recording the collapse of the United States of America.

[old man emu]

I'm flabbergasted by this recent preservation of wage slavery in the USA