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Trump Continues ‘Cat And Mouse’ With Mitt Romney Over Secretary Of State

Donald Trump continues his public humiliation of Mitt Romney by having dinner in public with the Secretary of State wannabe.

Romney looks like he’s having a great time, huh?

Via NPR:

After leaving the dinner at the Jean-Georges restaurant at the Trump International Hotel in New York City, Romney told reporters they had a “wonderful evening” and that he’s been impressed with Trump’s transition so far and many of his Cabinet picks.

“We had another discussion about affairs throughout the world, and these discussions I’ve had with him have been enlightening, and interesting, and engaging,” Romney said.

“He won the general election and he continues with a message of inclusion and bringing people together and his vision is something which obviously connected with the American people in a very powerful way,” he continued.

I will be mightily surprised if Trump actually picks Mitt Romney for Secretary of State after Mitt was one of Trump’s fiercest critics during the campaign season calling Trump a “fraud” and a “con man.”

Notice – by turning the pic of Trump and Mitt black and white, the image looks like something from an old Twilight Zone episode where someone just sold their soul to the devil.

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Donald Trump Pretends He Won’t Have Anything To Do With His Businesses While President

Donald Trump magnanimously tweets this morning that he will be “leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country.”

Thus is not a blind trust.

For clarity, a blind trust is a financial arrangement in which a person in public office gives the administration of private business interests to an independent trust in order to prevent conflict of interest. Under the trust, the owner does not know how the assets are managed.

Does anyone really believe that Trump won’t, in private conversations with his kids, inquire about business dealings?

Really?

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Trump: People Should Lose Their Citizenship If They Burn American Flag

Who knows why Donald Trump decided to stir this pot – clearly he’s trying to divert from something he doesn’t want the public to pay attention to.

No one should burn the American flag, BUT – the U.S. Constitution secures our right to do so.

There’s that little thing called the 1st Amendment which protects freedom of expression. Plus, it is  literally unconstitutional to strip someone of their citizenship as punishment.

Seriously, this guy is going to be our president?

#smh

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Donald Trump Claims He “Won” The Popular Vote

Donald Trump is so rattled by the idea of a recount of the vote in three battleground states that he began defending his own victory in the presidential election via Twitter.

Kellyanne Conway – this is where you take the Blackberry out of the Trumpster’s tiny hands…

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Trump Goes On Twitter Rant Over Voting Recount

President-elect Donald Trump seems a bit unnerved by the announcement by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein that she will request audit/recounts of the voting in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Trump took to Twitter today in a long rant decrying the recount effort based on the recommendations of computer scientists who say there are some irregular patterns in those three states. The discrepancies seem to be based in counties which used only electronic voting.

Of course, you’ll recall Trump had a completely different tone about challenging results and voter fraud just weeks before the election.

Yesterday, the Clinton campaign tacitly announced it would participate, primarily to ensure the effort was fair to all sides. The Clinton team has stated it does not expect the results of the election to change due to the recount.

I personally think this is good thing. There are Americans who are still in disbelief about the outcome of the presidential election, and a recount (paid through donations, not tax dollars) could help folks accept the result more easily.

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Randy Rainbow Trolls Trump/Pence With HAMILTON Parody

Randy Rainbow turns his creative focus to Vice President-elect Mike Pence’s recent visit to the Broadway smash hit Hamilton: An American Musical, and his boss’ Twitter melt-down in the aftermath of that escapade.

As many know, Pence was booed as he entered the Richard Rodgers Theater by many members of the audience. And at the end of the curtain call, Brandon Victor Dixon – one of the stars of the show – read a message from the stage concerning the cast and creators’ concerns about the incoming administration.

Randy’s musical Trump/Pence tribute is a parody of the Hamilton tune “You’ll Be Back,” originally performed by out actor/hottie, Jonathan Groff.

Rainbow skewers both Trump and Pence for the days long fallout from the Pence pack’s night at the thea-ah-tah.

“Don’t denounce a Broadway play when you won’t denounce the KKK”

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President-Elect Trump On Recount Effort: “This Is A Scam”

Statement From President-Elect Donald J. Trump on the Ridiculous Green Party Recount Request:

“The people have spoken and the election is over, and as Hillary Clinton herself said on election night, in addition to her conceding by congratulating me, ‘We must accept this result and then look to the future.’

“It is important to point out that with the help of millions of voters across the country, we won 306 electoral votes on Election Day – the most of any Republican since 1988 – and we carried nine of 13 battleground states, 30 of 50 states, and more than 2,600 counties nationwide – the most since President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than one percent of the vote overall and wasn’t even on the ballot in many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount. All three states were won by large numbers of voters, especially Pennsylvania, which was won by more than 70,000 votes.

“This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing.”

(source)

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Hillary Clinton Campaign Will Participate In Jill Stein Vote Audit

Marc Elias, general counsel for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, announced today in an essay posted on Medium that the campaign will participate in the upcoming audit/recount effort begun by Jill Stein earlier this week.

Because we had not uncovered any actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology, we had not planned to exercise this option ourselves, but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, we intend to participate in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides.

If Jill Stein follows through as she has promised and pursues recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan, we will take the same approach in those states as well.

We do so fully aware that the number of votes separating Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in the closest of these states — Michigan — well exceeds the largest margin ever overcome in a recount. But regardless of the potential to change the outcome in any of the states, we feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself.

Stein’s team is looking for not only a recount, but a reconciliation of paper records from the election.

At this writing, Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote stands at more than 2.2 million.

Jill Stein has raised over $5.7 million to fund vote audits in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Team Trump has not issued a statement on the audit effort at this point.