[Breitbart] President Donald Trump’s pro-American coalition defeated President Barack Obama’s pro-diversity agenda on Tuesday.
“This is obviously not the outcome we have hoped for,” Obama grudgingly admitted in a passive-voice statement on Wednesday that dodged his role in Trump’s victory:
America has been through a lot over the last few years — from a historic pandemic and price hikes resulting from the pandemic, to rapid change … These conditions have created headwinds for democratic incumbents around, the world, and last night, shows that America is not immune.
Obama’s fingerpointing tried to hide his decades-long push to impose a radical, pro-diversity, pro-immigration agenda on ordinary Americans. But he made that agenda the centerpiece of his prime-time speech at the Democrats’ National Convention in August:
No nation, no society has ever tried to build a democracy as big and as diverse as ours before, one that includes people that, over decades, have come from every corner of the globe …
Our allegiances and our community are defined not by race or blood, but by a common creed, and that’s why, when we uphold our values, the world is a little brighter. When we don’t, the world is a little dimmer, and dictators and autocrats feel emboldened, and over time, we become less safe.
“That is what this election is about,” he declared to his audience of progressive politicians, donors, activists, and establishment journalists.
Only Breitbart News noted the radical nature of his well-written, well-delivered convention speech.
In contrast, Trump pushed a unifying campaign focused on restoring prosperity and peace for all Americans.
“You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American People,” Trump tweeted October 30.
“It’s all about the American Dream,” Trump told a roomful of business elites and billionaires in September at the Economic Club of New York. “We will make housing much more affordable… [and] we will get [mortgage rates] back down to 3 percent … [so] young people will be able to buy a home again and be part of the American dream,” he said, adding:
We don’t talk [about the] American Dream with these [Democratic] people in office. they don’t want to talk about the American dream because they are the exact opposite.
Obama has been pushing his diversity-first policy since well before he was elected president in 2008.
His anti-American view is now a litmus test among progressives, regardless of the massive pocketbook and civic damage done to ordinary Americans.
“Undeniably, immigration is changing our nation,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) told media host Joe Rogan on November 2. “It’s very clear that immigration has remade Texas … generally it’s for a good thing,” he added.
“I’m all for just like, open the f… border,” Democratic organizer Kevin Oyakawa allegedly told an undercover journalist in Ohio.
“In my mind, the fates of black and brown were to be perpetually intertwined [and would become] the cornerstone of a coalition that could help America live up to its promise,” Obama wrote in his 2006 autobiography, “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.”
“At some point, there’s going to be a President Rodriguez, or there’s going to be a President Chi … its politics will reflect who we are,” Obama said during a 2014 interview at MSNBC/Telemundo interview. “That’s not something to be afraid of, that’s something to welcome,” he said.
That diversity-first agenda is fiercely pushed by Obama’s ally, homeland security chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
Mayokas has been working for Obama as a pro-migration deputy since 2009. For example, he helped launch Obama’s legally contested “DACA” amnesty for child-age illegal migrants in 2012.
In 2021, Mayorkas took over the border security job in President Joe Biden’s administration. Since then, Mayorkas has pulled in roughly 8 million southern migrants, in addition to the legal inflow of roughly 5 million immigrants and temporary visa workers.
Obama’s pro-diversity migration policy wrecked Biden’s administration — and allowed Donald Trump to regain the presidency. For example, the New York Times reported in May 2022:
“Immigration is a growing vulnerability for the president,” [Biden pollster] John Anzalone and his team warned in a package of confidential polling, voter surveys and recommendations compiled for the White House. “Voters do not feel he has a plan to address the situation on the border, and it is starting to take a toll.”
Within a month, there was another stark warning. “Nearly nine in 10 registered voters are also concerned about increasing inflation,” said another memo obtained by The New York Times.
Unsurprisingly, growing pluralities and majorities of ordinary Americans reject this elite-imposed chaotic, wealth-shifting diversity. They voted for Trump’s MAGA vision in 2024.
Trump’s defeat of Obama’s diversity agenda is especially painful for Obama because he regards Trump as an uncouth blowhard compared to his urbane style.
Some of Obama’s allies recognized the colossal risk he was taking with the party’s other goals, and with the lives of 330 million Americans. For example, Yasha Mounk, a pro-diversity author who was touted by Obama, admitted in a 2022 interview:
We have no real example of democracies that managed to sustain deep ethnic and religious diversity while treating people fairly, which is the aspiration that our society now has. And we have lots of examples in history of ethnic and religious diversity going wrong, both in democracies and in non-democratic societies leading to genocide, leading to civil war, leading to terrible forms of exploitation, domination like slavery. So, I think there is good reason to think that there is a special challenge to sustaining diverse democracy. And I think we can see some of that in our politics. We can see how fears about demographic change incite the cultural divisions that characterize the United States and many other democracies today.
Mayorkas shares the same pro-diversity, pro-migration ideology — nas has eagerly formed a political alliance with investors to jointly import more migrants.
He has repeatedly explained that he supports more migration because of his migrant parents, his sympathy for migrants, and his support for “equity” between Americans and foreigners.
He also justifies his welcome for migrants by saying his priorities are above the law, and by claiming that the “needs” of U.S. business are paramount — regardless of the cost to ordinary Americans, the impact on U.S. children, or Americans’ rational opposition.
I don't know if you have seen the scold campaign going on, how dare you vote for the rooopist racyst felon over the strong woman of color. So I do have a question - doesn't that mean this diversity message is less popular than such an ultimate boogeyman?
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Gevorg Mirzayan
[REGNUM] Donald Trump's victory, and a confident victory at that, which made it impossible to correct the vote either through the "rebellion of the dead" (stuffing on behalf of citizens who died in recent years) or through the "Moldovan diaspora" (mass carousels at polling stations and uncontrolled counting), predictably became the main news of the American media. The overseas press is trying to answer three important questions: how did it happen, who is to blame and how will it all end?
The media agrees that the Democrats underestimated Trump.
“They thought Trump had sunk in his defeat by Biden. They were sure that the arrogance and stupidity he had displayed during his reluctant exit from the presidency had destroyed him politically. They saw him as little more than a sideshow — a malignant character in exile at Mar-a-Lago. A disgraced loser with no prospect of returning to power,” The New Yorker writes.
But Trump was no loser. The Associated Press said the Republican rose and won at the expense of “disillusioned voters.”
"He attacked his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, with language that was often misogynistic and racist, pushing an apocalyptic vision of a country overrun by violent migrants. And that crude rhetoric, coupled with an image of hypermasculinity, resonated with angry voters, especially men, in a deeply divided country," the AP writes.
Goodness. Such unprofessionally emotional language.
In essence, the American majority, which did not share the ideas of ultra-liberalism, felt occupied by a radical minority. They realized that their interests were of no interest to anyone - and as soon as they had a protector in the person of Trump, they voted for him.
Yes, some voted because they liked him personally.
"Most Trump supporters believed the narrative that he was the unfair victim of a corrupt political, legal and media establishment," The Hill notes.
The logic error of believing that it is narrative rather than reality that matters.
That is, the same victim as they themselves, but who can at the same time protect them.
"Trump's supporters see him as a unique figure whose crude, sometimes vulgar and often racist rhetoric positions him as the scourge of political correctness," CNN points out.
After all, as The Wall Street Journal notes, “Trump’s victory is due to his ineradicable habit of saying what he really thinks.”
However, there were also those who did not like Trump, but by voting against him they expressed their protest against the ultra-liberal occupation that is destroying the very foundations of America.
I believer Mr. Mirzayan meant to write …by voting for him…
"His bold plans to upend the country's political system resonated with tens of millions of voters who feared the American dream was becoming increasingly out of reach," The New York Times notes.
And to achieve it, as these tens of millions believe, the entire old world must be destroyed.
"Americans Just Vote to Burn It All Down," Slate sums up.
Oh no. What Americans want, at least those who voted for Donald Trump, is to preserve and renew what existed before President Biden, et al did their best to eradicate it.
As The Hill notes, Trump became the second Republican president in 36 years to win not only the electoral votes, but also the popular vote — that is, to achieve greater support from the electorate than his Democratic opponent.
As far as we know, anyway. The level of documented fraud in 2020 makes it impossible to know what the final score actually was.
The Democrats themselves (who, of course, refuse to believe that Trump won because of ultra-liberal excesses and the elites' contempt for the population) are now facing a long period of appointing the guilty. The Hill predicts that the blame for the defeat will now begin to be shifted.
In particular, they will look for someone to blame for Biden's untimely withdrawal from the race. Of course, the outgoing president will be named as one of the culprits.
Didn’t Nancy Pelosi proudly claim credit at the time for rescuing Democratic presidential ambitions by driving President Biden to retire from the field?
“Biden’s legacy will no longer be defined by his success in removing Trump from power in 2020, but by his hubris in seeking a second term… which paved the way for his political rival,” CNN points out.
Why should he have not, when all involved assured the world that he was supremely able, unlike that mentally failing OrangeManBad?
But, in addition to Biden, the leadership of the Democratic Party, which failed to take responsibility and remove Biden from participating in the election through legal procedures, will also be held responsible.
What legal procedures are available to prevent someone from running for office? Nuts do it all the time.
"The party's lack of desire to hold a competitive primary against Biden will be questioned by those who believe such a primary would either strengthen Harris's position or produce a better candidate," the publication assures.
Only the latter is possible. As we have now twice seen, the lady is incapable of running successfully for office at the national level.
The Democratic Party leadership will also be criticized for the fact that, having organized, according to The New York Post, a palace coup against Biden, it was unable to put forward a sensible alternative. That is, any other candidate except Harris, who, in her thirst for the White House, refused to give way to more passable candidates.
Who could they propose? Governor Newsom? AOC? Senator Bernie Sanders? Unfortunately for them, they have no bench at all, let alone a deep one.
“Donors commissioned polls that showed the only candidate who would be weaker than Biden was Kamala Harris,” The Washington Post recalls.
As a result, as expected, “the country rejected the first DEI (embodying the ideas of tolerance. - Ed.) candidate for president,” writes Newsweek.
"A ridiculous and unqualified woman, chosen solely on the basis of her race and gender, whose only argument was that she was not Donald Trump," the publication clarifies.
A significant portion of the American media agrees that Trump's opponents need to prepare to live in a different America.
“A country where millions of our fellow citizens voted for a president who knowingly encourages hatred and division. Who lies — brazenly, shamelessly — every time he appears in public. Who plotted to overturn the 2020 election,” the Atlantic’s authors do not hide their emotions.
The problem, Vox argues, is not just Trump's immorality but his intentions, since "throughout the campaign, Trump has shown himself obsessed with two ideas: exerting personal control over the federal government
…so he can drastically shrink it, a heretical thought…
and exacting 'retribution' against the Democrats who defied him and the prosecutors who indicted him."
Those who so completely and vindictively break the law need to be punished as a discouragement to others.
The authors of the publication predict that the Republican will replace the entire professional capital bureaucracy with political appointees and turn Washington into "Budapest-on-the-Potomac." That is, he will adopt authoritarian practices that, they say, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban uses.
Or just get rid of half of it altogether, like President Javier Milei of Argentina.
There will be no one to stop Trump.
"His Republican critics in Congress have largely been defeated or resigned. The federal courts are now filled with judges he appointed," the Associated Press writes.
Moreover, journalists recall the recent decision of the Supreme Court (a third of whose judges are Trump appointees) on the immunity of the head of state for decisions made in office.
"Trump's new mandate will raise new concerns that he plans to follow through on his belief that presidents wield nearly unlimited power.
You mean governing with a phone and a pen like Presidents Obama and Biden? Except a shrunken government will give the president less power.
He has (...) spoken openly about using America's governing institutions and even the military to punish his enemies. He has promised to launch mass deportations of illegal and even some legal immigrants, which could spark legal battles," CNN points out.
Last time he was in office the illegals self-deported. I am eager to see if that process will wait as long as next week to become noticeable.
Trump’s future foreign policy vectors also receive attention, albeit much less. CNN laments that abroad, Trump is likely to “once again turn the United States into one of the world’s greatest sources of unpredictability,” and that “the mercurial foreign policy that reflects his explosive nature will further undermine Washington’s position as the head of the rules-based Western democratic world order.”
In general, the liberal Western media is experiencing apocalyptic sentiments.
“A second Trump term is an existential threat to the United States. The next four years will be the most serious threat to American democracy since the Civil War. If it survives them, it will likely emerge battered and battle-scarred,” Vox concludes.
Quick, Nurse, run and get the big bottle of pink pills — they’re starting to froth at the mouth again!
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When these people say “democracy” they do not mean “the will of the people expressed at the ballot box”
They changed the definition
They mean “the institution we and our elite friends control: the spy agencies and the ecosystem of non-profits and front groups like the NED and Atlantic council, the State Department, the bureaucracy like the DHHS and niaid,”
fauci is “the democracy”
Nuland is “the democracy”
The politicised fbi is “the democracy”
Mike benz knows the score
Trump better have his legal team in order to revoke the security clearances of the 52 spies who signed that lie about russia collusion delusion and the ones who lied about the hunter biden laptop
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Trump better also work out prosecuting fauci and putting RFK jr head of FDA, revoking liability waiver for big pharma
He must do this because again, the FDA is the “democratic institutions” these tyrants speak of. Also the mega corporations
Break them up into smaller componenets like fdr broke up Standard Oil
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...they call the Trump supporters misogynists, racists, Nazis, and garbage. To hell with 'politeness'. 'They' are the enemies of Western Civilization.
If money is tight, companies with any intelligence have go to see that all the King's horse and all the King's Men (old lying media) didn't deliver. That alternative channels are reaching far more eyes and ears. Place your product/service in those venues to find growth.
Video is translatable into English. And Rozhin is correct. The battles that ensued after the Dnepr River crossings near Lutezh are the most important maneuvers of the Great Patriotic War.
[ColonelCassad] Military historian Alexey Isayev on the operation to liberate Kiev and the military trickery of the Red Army command with the transfer of an entire tank army from bridgehead to bridgehead.
Liberation of Kiev. The most famous regrouping of the Great Patriotic War
Abstract:
The area north of Kiev was initially underestimated by the Soviet command as an operational direction in the Battle of the Dnieper in September 1943.
Here it was necessary to overcome not only the Dnieper, but also the Desna, and on the right bank of the path of attack further to the west lay the Irpen and Teterev rivers. The wooded terrain was not conducive to the use of mechanized units, which were the Red Army's strength. On the contrary, the command of Army Group South gathered considerable infantry forces in this area under the command of the 4th Tank Army.
In early October, the 5th Guards Tank Corps of A. Kravchenko advanced to the Lyutezh bridgehead occupied by the 38th Army. Its actions immediately sharply enlivened the battle north of Kiev. The Lyutezh bridgehead's finest hour came at the end of October 1943, when even nature itself supported the plans of the Soviet Headquarters.
[LegalInsurrection] The European mainstream media is in a meltdown this morning after President Donald Trump’s historic victory in the U.S. election.
"Why do they vote for Trump?" the leading German news Tageszeitung asked. How could the majority of American voters "support a man like Trump, who insults political opponents, offends allied countries, questions the electoral system, and also advocates anti-worker policies?" the newspaper wondered.
"On paper, the Democrats’ program for the middle class is better than the Republicans’. But why are the Democrats receiving less and less support from this group?" the clueless German daily asked.
German magazine Der Spiegel covered the news with the headline "The Trump Shock."
"After Donald Trump’s election victory, the U.S. is facing a political turning point," the weekly added.
The German establishment fears that Trump will make them pay more for their own defense and raise tariffs to drive down the massive trade deficit. "What will happen" when Trump enters the White House?" the German weekly Der Stern asked Wednesday.
"68 percent of people in Germany fear Donald Trump’s election victory. Because, unlike Kamala Harris, he is threatening major changes in how he deals with Germany," the weekly worriedly, though rightly, concluded.
Even while reporting Trump’s historic comeback, the BBC couldn’t refrain itself from calling the incoming U.S. president a ’convicted felon’ and accused him of having ’extreme ideas.’
"It’s not hard to see why he is a deeply polarising figure," the UK broadcaster commented. "Throughout the campaign, Trump used incendiary rhetoric — making crass jokes and threatening vengeance against his political enemies."
The British newspaper Guardian sounded heartbroken while reporting on Kamala Harris’ election night watch party on the Howard University campus in Washington. "The Scene at Howard University had echoes of Hillary Clinton’s loss in 2016 as the US appears poised to return Trump to power," the newspaper sobbedly recalled.
"The crowd that gathered was excited. The music pulsed. Members of Harris’s AKA sorority, wearing pink and green, danced together," the Guardian noted. "As Donald Trump began to carve out an expected early lead on Tuesday evening, jitters set in." EUrope is the Vatican of Globalism - an ideology whose ultimate goal (IMO) is extinction of the Human race.
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Media everywhere crushed!
Now I can go to sleep, happy!
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OK, sure. He's a monster. But he is *our* monster. We need him; he fights.
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They don't understand us. Of, course the neo-commies in charge at the DNC don't either. Here's a hint - either learn from this deficit or continue to be hampered by it.
Let me provide a little hint. 'American' culture has deep roots in its development as a 'frontier' nation. Unlike Europeans, there is still enough of us around who do not believe that government is the answer to every problem. The old phrase - if you are not the solution, you are the problem.
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"68 percent of people in Germany fear Donald Trump’s election victory. Because, unlike Kamala Harris, he is threatening major changes in how he deals with Germany," the weekly worriedly, though rightly, concluded.
Like shut down a pipeline? Oh wait no stop that guy!
[Breitbart] Corrupt Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Keystone Cop who has serially failed to throw Donald Trump in prison or undermine his reelection chances, will not wait for incoming President-elect Trump to fire him (as Trump has understandably promised to do). Instead, since a special counsel cannot prosecute a sitting president, Smith will leave the Department of Justice before Trump is sworn in as the 47th president. The (phony) cases against Trump will also be dropped.
Since November 2022, Smith has sought to put Trump in prison using four felony accounts that laughably claim Trump conspired to steal the 2020 presidential election.
Smith also filed 40 felony counts against Trump over the documents the former president held at his Mar-a-Lago home. A judge dismissed that case. Smith had plans to file an appeal to reinstate the charges. That won’t happen now.
I asked my colleague Joel Pollak his thoughts, and he was kind enough to send this:
Trump has faced four criminal cases — two at the federal level, and two at the state level. One federal case, the “documents” case, was dismissed in federal court in Florida in July after Judge Aileen Cannon agreed with the defense that Smith’s appointment as Special Counsel was constitutionally invalid. (Smith is currently appealing her ruling.) The other case, the “January 6th” case, is still pending in the District of Columbia, where Smith had to refile it after Supreme Court rulings on presidential immunity and the relevant law.
As of Wednesday, the Department of Justice is dropping both cases, anticipating that Trump would fire Smith immediately upon taking office, as he has power to do, ending the Special Counsel’s prosecutions.
At the state level, there are two cases — one in New York, and one in Georgia. In New York, Trump is set to be sentenced on November 26th on 34 felony counts of business fraud. It is unclear what his sentence will be, or whether it would be suspended; his conviction is almost certain to be overturned on appeal. As president, he would probably have the power to pardon himself for federal crimes; it is an open constitutional question as to whether he could pardon himself for state crimes. In Georgia, Trump’s prosecution has been delayed until next year, thanks in part to ethical questions over the conduct of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (who won reelection on Tuesday). There are motions by the defense to dismiss the entire case.
Trump also faces civil cases. Two of the more prominent case are both in New York: one is his civil fraud case, and the other is his sexual misconduct case. The fraud case is currently on appeal in New York, and the state’s appellate judges have shown skepticism thus far about the massive fine that New York Attorney General managed to slap on Trump for allegedly inflating his wealth in loan applications. The latter case, involving suddenly-remembered allegations by writer E. Jean Carroll, is also being appealed; Trump was found civilly (not criminally) liable for “sexual abuse” (though not for rape) and also for defamation.
To allow the country to move forward, I’d be fine if Trump agreed to pardon Hunter Biden in exchange for Joe Biden and the governors of these states (where relevant) agreeing to pardon Trump.
Trump’s stunning and historic victory Tuesday night was, at least in part, a rebuke of this obscene and fascist lawfare persecution. This sort of arrangement would get Joe Biden off the hook of pardoning his own son and allow our next president to fulfill his mandate with a clean slate.
The country deserves to move on from this nonsense, which will, in turn, allow our government to focus its time and energy where it belongs — on the American people.
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Jack "Krazee Killa Eyes" Smith's appointment WAS illegal. Reimburse the Fed Treasury for all illegal expenditures as well
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"Hello Bob? It's Jack Smith. Looks like I might need counsel after all... " *click*
"Hello Sally? It's Jack Smith. Looks like I might need counsel after all... " *click*
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[WLT Report] Perhaps the most fascinating thing to come from this election is also perhaps the most unexpected....
We may have just received absolute confirmation that 2020 was stolen.
A bunch of posts are going viral on Twitter/X right now from Democrats saying "The math doesn’t add up! How can the total number of voters be less this year than in 2020?"
Like this one from "Deb":
And on one level, they’re right....
The math DOES NOT add up.
To believe what we’re being told, we have to believe that Joe Biden got 81 million votes in 2020, and this election was expected to be bigger with even more turnout, and yet Kamala Harris only gets 66 million votes?
Where did the other 15 million go?
And for Trump, he also got about 3 million less votes this year than in 2020.
So something doesn’t add up, I agree with that.
But the Democrats are too dumb or ignorant to realize what this is actually telling us....
It’s actually confirming in broad daylight that 15 million votes from people who do not exist were added into the 2020 election to rig it.
It’s the classic FRAUD image we’ve all seen posted so many times over the last 4 years:
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Comments on a couple of sites note that the 2012-2020 numbers are finalized whereas the 2024 still have votes yet to be counted. OTOH__ we all know what the hell happened.
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If you don't weigh the numbers against turnout and populkation growth the numbers mean nothing.
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Time to get rid of ERIC for good.
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Notice even Trump got a spike in votes in 2020; the reason for that is that when cheating you have to help both candidates with fake ballots (3 or 4 to 1) or the ballot dump is too obvious.
Everybody is full of advice so that President Trump can hit the ground running as soon as he is formally sworn in.
[IsraelTimes] Lebanese-American businessman, who is the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter, says he’ll be point man for Lebanon to negotiate end of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah
Donald Trump will begin the process of choosing a cabinet and selecting other high-ranking administration officials in the coming weeks following his presidential election victory.
Here are the top contenders for some of the key posts overseeing defense, intelligence, diplomacy, trade, immigration and economic policymaking. Some are in contention for a range of posts.
Scott Bessent, potential treasury secretary
Bessent, a key economic adviser to Trump, is widely seen as a top candidate for treasury secretary. A longtime hedge fund investor who taught at Yale University for several years, Bessent has a warm relationship with the president-elect.
While Bessent has long favored the laissez-faire policies that were popular in the pre-Trump Republican Party, he has also spoken highly of Trump’s use of tariffs as a negotiating tool. He has praised the president-elect’s economic philosophy, which rests on a skepticism of both regulations and international trade.
John Paulson, potential treasury secretary
Paulson, a billionaire hedge fund manager and major Trump donor, is another top contender for treasury secretary. The longtime financier has told associates he would be interested in the job.
A longtime proponent of tax cuts and deregulation, Paulson’s profile is broadly similar to that of other potential members of Trump’s economic team. He has publicly supported targeted tariffs as a tool to ensure US national security and combat unfair trade practices abroad.
One high-profile fundraiser hosted by Paulson in April raked in over $50 million for the former president.
Larry Kudlow, potential treasury secretary
FOX Business Network personality Larry Kudlow, who served as director of the National Economic Council for much of Trump’s first term, has an outside shot at becoming his treasury secretary and would likely have an opportunity to take a separate economics-focused position if he is interested.
While he is privately skeptical of broad tariffs, there is publicly little daylight between the policies Kudlow advocates and those of the president-elect.
Robert Lighthizer, potential treasury secretary
A loyalist who served as Trump’s US trade representative for essentially the then-president’s entire term, Lighthizer will almost certainly be invited back. Though Bessent and Paulson likely have a better shot at becoming treasury secretary, Lighthizer has an outside chance, and he might be able to reprise his old role if he’s interested.
Like Trump, Lighthizer is a trade skeptic and a firm believer in tariffs. He was one of the leading figures in Trump’s trade war with China and the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, with Mexico and Canada during Trump’s first term.
Howard Lutnick, potential treasury secretary
The co-chair of Trump’s transition effort and the longtime chief executive of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald, Lutnick is in the running for treasury secretary.
A bombastic New Yorker like Trump, Lutnick has uniformly praised the president-elect’s economic policies, including his use of tariffs.
He has at times given elaborate, unvarnished opinions about what policies will be enacted in Trump’s second term. Some Trump allies had privately complained that he too often presented himself as speaking on behalf of the campaign.
Richard Grenell, potential national security adviser
Grenell is among Trump’s closest foreign policy advisers. During the president-elect’s first four-year term, he served as acting director of national intelligence and US ambassador to Germany. When Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in September, Grenell sat in on the private meeting.
Grenell’s private dealings with foreign leaders and often-caustic personality have made him the center of multiple controversies, a fact that might make another Senate confirmation process a challenge, depending on the composition of the upper chamber. However, he is considered a top contender for national security adviser, which does not require Senate confirmation, and a Senate-confirmed post is not out of the question.
Among the policies he has advocated for is setting up an autonomous zone in eastern Ukraine to end the war there, a position Kyiv considers unacceptable.
Robert O’Brien, potential secretary of state
O’Brien, Trump’s fourth and final national security adviser during his first term, maintains a close relationship with Trump, and the two often speak on national security matters.
He is likely in the running for secretary of state or other top foreign policy and national security posts. He has maintained close contacts with foreign leaders since Trump left office, having met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel in May.
His views are somewhat more hawkish than some of Trump’s advisers. He has, for instance, been more supportive of military aid for Ukraine than many of his Republican contemporaries, and he is a proponent of banning TikTok in the United States.
Bill Hagerty, potential secretary of state
A US senator from Tennessee who worked on Trump’s 2016 transition effort, Hagerty is considered a top contender for secretary of state. He has maintained solid relations with essentially all factions of the Republican Party, and could likely be confirmed with ease in the Senate.
He served as US ambassador to Japan in the first Trump administration at a time when the president touted his warm relationship with then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Hagerty’s policies are broadly in line with those of Trump. Earlier in the year, he voted against a major military aid package for Ukraine.
Marco Rubio, potential secretary of state
Rubio, a US senator from Florida and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, is also a top secretary of state contender whose policies hew closely to those of Trump. Like Hagerty, he was a contender to be Trump’s 2024 running mate.
Rubio has long been involved in foreign affairs in the Senate, particularly as it relates to Latin America, and he has solid relationships throughout the party.
Mike Waltz, potential defense secretary
A former Army Green Beret who is currently a US congressman from Florida, Waltz has established himself as one of the foremost China hawks in the House of Representatives. Among the various China-related bills he has co-sponsored are measures designed to lessen US reliance on critical minerals mined in China.
Waltz is on speaking terms with Trump and is widely considered to be a serious contender for secretary of defense.
Mike Pompeo, potential defense secretary
Pompeo, who served as CIA director and secretary of state during Trump’s first term, is considered a top contender for secretary of defense but could land in various slots involving national security, intelligence or diplomacy.
While he flirted with a Republican primary challenge against Trump, Pompeo never pulled the trigger, and he is now back on friendly terms with the president-elect after a period of awkwardness. He stands out as possibly the fiercest defender of Ukraine among Trump’s close allies, a position that puts him at odds with most high-ranking figures in his potential boss’s camp.
Tom Cotton, potential defense secretary
A Harvard College and Harvard Law School-educated Army officer-turned-US senator from Arkansas, Cotton is well-liked among Trump donors and is a serious contender for secretary of defense. Like Hagerty, he emerged as a dark-horse contender to be Trump’s running mate in the final weeks of the vice presidential selection process in June and July.
Cotton represents the shrunken hawkish wing of the Republican Party, having consistently supported military aid for Ukraine.
Keith Kellogg, potential candidate for national security posts
A retired lieutenant general who served as chief of staff to the National Security Council under Trump, Kellogg has Trump’s ear and is a contender for several national security-related positions, though it is unclear precisely where he would land.
During the campaign, he presented Trump with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, which involved forcing both parties to the negotiating table and ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine for the foreseeable future, among other measures.
Tom Homan, potential homeland security secretary
Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a year and a half during Trump’s first term, is a contender for secretary of homeland security. Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration the central element of his campaign, promising mass deportations.
Trump frequently praised Homan during the campaign, and Homan often hit the trail to rally supporters. During Trump’s first term, Homan was a leading advocate of the administration’s controversial child separation policy, during which children of immigrants who had entered the country illegally were detained separately from their parents.
Chad Wolf, potential homeland security secretary
Wolf, who served as Trump’s acting secretary of homeland security for roughly 14 months during his first presidency, may have a shot at heading back to DHS.
Wolf loyally carried out Trump’s hardline immigration policies, and he deployed federal agents to Portland, Oregon, to control protests during the riots that followed the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer.
He may have some strikes against him. He resigned on January 11, 2021, just days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.
Trump has expressed misgivings about bringing back those who resigned in the final days of his term. Wolf, however, cited the legal controversy around his appointment as DHS secretary – rather than the Capitol attack – when he stepped down. Multiple judges ruled that his appointment by Trump, which effectively circumvented the Senate, was illegal.
Mark Green, potential homeland security secretary
A former Army flight surgeon and the current chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, Green is considered by some Trump allies in Washington as a contender for the top job at DHS. His supporters describe him as a Trump loyalist and immigration hardliner who also has significant legislative experience.
Green was nominated by Trump during his first term to serve as secretary of the Army, but he withdrew his name as past statements, which were widely seen as transphobic and Islamophobic, drew more scrutiny.
John Ratcliffe, potential attorney general
A former congressman and prosecutor who served as director of national intelligence during Trump’s last year in office, Ratcliffe is seen as a potential attorney general, though he could also take a separate national security or intelligence position.
The president-elect’s allies view Ratcliffe as a hardcore Trump loyalist who could likely win Senate confirmation. Still, during his time as director of national intelligence, Ratcliffe often contradicted the assessments of career civil servants, drawing criticism from Democrats who said he politicized the role.
Mike Lee, potential attorney general
A US senator from Utah, Lee is widely seen as another top candidate for attorney general. Though the former prosecutor declined to vote for Trump during the 2016 election, he later became an unwavering ally, and he has become something of an intellectual hero among some factions of Trumpworld.
Lee was a key figure in attempts by Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, and has spread unfounded conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Susie Wiles, potential chief of staff
One of Trump’s two co-campaign managers, Wiles is seen as the odds-on favorite to be Trump’s White House chief of staff.
While the specifics of her political views are somewhat unclear, she is credited with running a successful and efficient campaign. Supporters hope she would instill a sense of order and discipline that was often lacking during Trump’s first term, when he cycled through a number of chiefs of staff.
Brooke Rollins, potential chief of staff
The former acting director of Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, Rollins is also a contender for chief of staff.
Trump has a close personal relationship with Rollins, and often compliments her in private settings.
She was generally considered one of Trump’s more moderate advisers while in office. Among other policies she supported during Trump’s first term were criminal justice reforms that lessened prison sentences for some relatively minor offenses.
Kash Patel, potential candidate for national security posts
A former Republican House staffer who served in various high-ranking staff roles in the defense and intelligence communities during Trump’s first term, Patel has frequently appeared on the campaign trail to rally support for the candidate.
Some Trump allies would like to see Patel, considered the ultimate Trump loyalist, appointed CIA director. Any position requiring Senate confirmation may be a challenge, however.
Patel has leaned into controversy throughout his career. In an interview with Trump ally Steve Bannon last year, he promised to “come after” politicians and journalists perceived to be enemies of the president-elect. During Trump’s first term, Patel drew animosity from some more experienced national security officials, who saw him as volatile and too eager to please the then-president.
Massad Boulos, point man to Lebanon
Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman and Trump surrogate, revealed in a recent interview days before the election that he will serve as the US point man for Lebanon in the incoming administration, tasked with negotiating with Beirut to secure a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
“I will be responsible for negotiating with the Lebanese side in order to reach an agreement, and Trump will appoint someone familiar with the Israeli file to negotiate with the Israelis,” Boulos told the Lebanese broadcaster Al-Jadeed in what appeared to be one of the first revelations regarding now President-elect Trump’s personnel.
Boulos joined the Trump inner circle after his son Michael married the former president’s daughter Tiffany in 2022. He helped Trump make significant inroads in the Arab American in yesterday’s election.
He will apparently assume half of the role currently filled by US President Joe Biden’s special adviser Amos Hochstein, who has been tasked with negotiating with both Israel and Lebanon. He successfully brokered a maritime boundary deal between the sides in 2022, but has not yet succeeded in brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah since the terror group began conducting cross-border attacks on October 8, 2023.
Boulos told Al Jadeed in another interview that Trump will fulfill his recent promise to “end the destruction in Lebanon” through a “comprehensive regional peace agreement.”
“Trump is committed to ending the war before he enters the White House,” he added, without elaborating.
An Israeli official and a former Trump official told The Times of Israel last month that the former president told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when they met in July that he wants the Gaza war wrapped up by the time he enters office.
“People see that Biden and Harris failed to end the wars and failed to even return the American hostages from Gaza… Lebanese Americans are migrating to Republican Party and to Trump because they feel that Trump is their only hope to end this war, and end all the wars… so we can start talking about rebuilding Lebanon and Gaza,” Boulos said.
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RE #3: Can't be done without flushing the more than 50% of CIA "analysts" hired directly from Ivy League colleges and universities. There's no "competence" there, just left-wing self-agrandizement.
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Yes, this and the garbage truck gig were all theater. However, it said - I can identify with the working class. Kamala and the privileged office women of American have no such capability. Like the 80% of former Twitter employees, they have no grasp of the fundamental occupations that make this civilization actually work.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chinese scientists claim to have created a 'real-life Death Star' capable of devastating enemy satellites in orbit.
The science-fiction-inspired weapon combines pulses of microwave radiation into a single powerful beam - just like the planet-destroying lasers shown in Star Wars.
In order to merge, the electromagnetic pulses must hit the exact same target within 170 trillionths of a second.
That requires levels of timing more precise than the atomic clocks on advanced GPS satellites - a feat previously thought to be impossible.
However, the weapon has now completed experimental trials for potential military applications thanks to breakthroughs in 'ultra-high time precision synchronisation'
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Technically feasible but why would you invest in the phased array antennas and necessary electrical power infrastructure when you can develop ASAT missiles?
Analysts have been puzzled by the limited nature of Israel’s October 25/26 attack on Iran. Various theories have been presented. Certainly, the NSA intelligence leak of October 17 had an effect, forcing the Israelis to initially cancel the attack. They then proceeded with an alternative plan.
Now, anecdotal information from Israeli sources suggests that the F-35s flying fighter escort for the strike package found themselves locked by engagement radars over Iraqi airspace. That means the Russians and Iranians could have shot them down at long range. It might have been several hundred miles, at the edge of the capability of ROCKS ALBMs that Israel meant to use on the enemy radar sites. This was a shock to the Israelis. According to this theory, the Israelis were so unnerved that they launched their missiles, turned around, and went home
It also accounts for the sober expressions Netanyahu and Gallant wore in the Israeli command bunker. The senior Israeli officers around the table were wringing their hands and biting their nails.
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If an Israeli plane was shot down by Iran, the ayatollahs would scream it from rooftops.
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