By George Barron | Contributing sources: The AP and Todd Beamon of NewsMax
Friday President-elect Donald Trump criticized the United Nations Security Council’s vote to condemn Israel for building and keeping settlements in the West Bank. He pledged that “things will be different” after he is officially inaugurated on January 20th.
Trump said on his FaceBook page and also tweeted portions of the following:
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Reporters covering President Obama the week before Christmas have sent their dispatches from sunny Hawaii, but those covering President-elect Trump have spent their days recording the comings and goings of corporate executives, Pentagon brass and soon-to-be West Wing staffers as Trump conducts transition meetings from his Palm Beach estate heading into the holidays.
by Tyler Durden | Dec 20, 2016 8:23 AM | ZeroHedge
In one of the most euphoric praises for Donald Trump and the president-elect’s fledgling administration to date, overnight Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio said economic changes under the Trump administration may be more dramatic than shifts from “the socialists to the capitalists” in the U.K., U.S. and Germany from 1979 to 1982, and predicted that “we are about to experience a profound, president-led ideological shift that will have a big impact on both the US and the world.”
By Matt Vespa | Townhall.com
Okay—we’ve all heard Democrats saying how Hillary Clinton got almost 3 million more popular votes than President-elect Donald J. Trump—and how that shows how he doesn’t have a mandate or something, despite clinching 306 Electoral College votes by winning the majority of the states, which is how we decide who will become our next president. I know most of you know that; it’s our progressive brethren who need a civics lesson. And
By Saint John Hunt | StoneColdTruth
Announced today on national news was a report by the CIA that Russia had meddled in the election of Donald Trump. According to CNN “multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation into Russia’s hacking told CNN last week that the US intelligence community is increasingly confident that Russian meddling in the US election was intended to steer the election towards Trump, rather than simply to undermine or in other ways disrupt the political process.”
Steve Watson | Infowars.com – DECEMBER 13, 2016
Outgoing president Obama has bombastically claimed that he is responsible for making sure the intelligence community is not subject to political spin, despite the fact that scores of intelligence operatives complained that Obama twisted intelligence on ISIS for years to fit a political narrative.
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RUSH: Now, Rex Tillerson. Rex Tillerson is the CEO of ExxonMobil. A man by the name of Steven Coll, C-o-l-l, at The New Yorker has written a book about Exxon, and as such wrote a lot about Tillerson. In the process of writing his book he was denied repeated requests for interviews from Tillerson, but he nevertheless got a lot of Tillerson’s comments on the record because of shareholder meetings and other public appearances where Tillerson spoke, he would show up and record them.
By Ann Coulter | Human Events
Bruni is a fabulous writer, but if he ever writes good stuff about you, Mr. President-elect, YOU WILL HAVE FAILED.
I assume this was just our president-elect doing something he gets the least credit for, which is being nice. But you can never be too careful.
The Times, part of the Washington establishment, is in total opposition to Trump’s stated goal to make America great again. Trump has got to know — not next year, but by 5 p.m. today — that anyone pursuing his agenda will incite rage, insanity and spitting blood from that newspaper.
By Bill Gertz
“I fully understand the One China policy, but I don’t know why we have to be bound by a One China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade,” Trump said on Fox News.
China’s Foreign Ministry reacted with a relatively mild statement on the comments.
By Dave Boyer | The Washington Times – Tuesday, December 13, 2016
In another sign that the transition isn’t proceeding as smoothly as President Obama professes, the Energy Department refused Tuesday to provide President-elect Donald Trump’s team with a list of federal employees who have worked on climate change programs.
Energy Department spokesman Eben Burnhan-Snyder said a questionnaire from the Trump transition team last week “left many in our workforce unsettled.”