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We are gonna build a wall, and who's gonna pay for it??!!

YOU ARE, YOU DUMB TWATS!

Sources: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall
Sources: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall - CNNPolitics.com

 

Not for a White House job:

The anti-nepotism law was passed by Congress in response to President John F. Kennedy's decision to appoint his brother Robert as attorney general, says Darrell West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution.

"It was very controversial at the time. Lyndon Johnson in particular did not like that, and when he became president he helped shepherd this anti-nepotism law through the U.S. Congress," West says.

Not many presidents have sought to hire relatives since then, so the law hasn't often been tested. But when President Bill Clinton appointed his wife, first lady Hillary Clinton, to head his health care task force, the move was challenged in court.

A federal judge ruled that the law didn't apply to White House staff jobs, making the appointment legal.

The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment from NPR, but spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway cited that ruling when she was asked whether Trump would hire his children during an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe last month.

"The anti-nepotism law apparently has an exception if you want to work in the West Wing, because the president is able to appoint his own staff," Conway said. "The president does have discretion to choose a staff of his liking."

 

It's obvious to me: The wall isn't meant to keep Mexicans out. It's meant to keep Americans in.

 

Former CIA director James Woolsey quits Trump transition team

 

Here's Tass, hooking a buddy up.

Trump says it’s strange his ‘intelligence briefing’ on so-called Russian hacking delayed

 

Strange. Very strange. Be careful.

 

What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class

 

Trump has told all - repeat, all - ambassadors they are out on Jan. 20. Nevermind years and years of precedent on keeping ambassadors around through the transition and during the vetting process of your own picks. Nope. Better to not have any ambassadors at all.

 

That is an excellent read.

 

The Trumplash on this one should be fun ...

Vice President Joe Biden has a message for the next President: "Grow up, Donald."

In an interview with PBS NewsHour that aired Thursday, Biden was asked about President-elect Donald Trump's tweets, specifically one where he called Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer "the head clown" and another in which he wrote, "Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks. Thought it was going to be a smooth transition - NOT!"

Biden responded it was time for Trump to "be an adult."

"Grow up, Donald. Grow up. Time to be an adult," he said. "You're president. You've got to do something. Show us what you have. You're going to propose legislation. We're going to get to debate it. Let the public decide. Let them vote in Congress. Let's see what happens." ...

Biden also said it's "dangerous" for the President-elect to be skeptical of US intelligence agencies.

"I think it's dangerous," he said in the interview. "For a President not to have confidence in, not to be prepared to listen to the myriad of intelligence agencies from defense intelligence, to the CIA, et cetera, is absolutely mindless. It's just mindless."

Joe Biden to Donald Trump: 'Grow up, Donald' - CNNPolitics.com

 

That was damn good

 

I really expect PBS and NPR funding to get slashed to nothing before the 2020 election.