We have been through several prior elections in which a similar thing happened, most recently in 2000.
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Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
A group of news media advocacy organizations is calling on President-elect Donald Trump to “preserve long-standing traditions” to ensure the press is free to inform the public of his presidential activities.
But others close to the transition process described advisers “fighting for power”.
In 2008, the newly elected Obama called a press conference three days after the election and vowed to “confront this economic crisis head on”.
Trump announced Friday that he has chosen key members of his national security team, including Central Intelligence Agency director, attorney general and national security advisor. One of Trump’s first appointments, chief strategist Steve Bannon, prompted a firestorm of criticism over his website’s links to white nationalism. In his first meeting with an head of state, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump invited his daughter Ivanka - who will likely serve as acting CEO of his companies - to participate. “This could be very damaging especially in the realm of global diplomacy, where many of America’s partners are accustomed to the deliberative and carefully considered approach of President Obama”.
“That’s the only people you have down there”, when asked about the number of lobbyists on his transition.
Waiting for the landing teams at the agencies are pre-readied briefings, ordered by Obama months ago.
The Trump transition team seems to be bickering over who amongst themselves will have key positions of influence.
That committee operated mostly independently of the Trump campaign, and perhaps too much so.
Protests featuring chants of “Not my president” broke out in Richmond and other cities as disappointed supporters of defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton took to the streets in the days following the election to register their disapproval of the outcome.
The New York Times reported that Jared Kushner (35), Mr Trump’s son-in-law and a close adviser to the businessman during his campaign, was exploring whether he could join his father-in-law as a close confidant in his White House. Trump waved him off. “If he wants to talk to me obviously about serving somewhere else, we’ll look at serving somewhere else”.
“Maybe me”, Giuliani said with a grin. I worked in the State Department for 24 years’ worth of transitions. Christie had signed the document, but the transition was essentially put on hold until Pence signed it and other paperwork was completed. He’s made only a handful of public comments since winning the election and has largely avoided speculating on who could end up in the White House and Cabinet agencies.
Trump has named his children to his transition team, but the letter says that if family members are still involved in running his businesses, “a clear firewall must be established so that these family members have no involvement with policy decisions at the White House”.
Instead of liquidating his assets and placing them in a Qualified Diversified Trust, as President Bush did, or investing in index funds and government bonds, as President Obama did, Trump has done nothing.
“Over the next couple months they will integrate and ensure that there is a smooth transition on January 20”, Spicer said.
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On Friday, the transition announced it moved Christie to vice chairman, along with other key Trump surrogates and advisers from the campaign, and declared Vice President-elect Mike Pence as chairman and the former chief of staff to Sen. “Lots of reasons to be concerned about @realDonaldTrump transition, but pace of announcements isn’t one of them. That’s not a fair shot”.
