Trump to visit Biden at White House as new presidential transition staff takes shape: Live updates

Lord Mandelson is seen because the main contender for the Washington job, because the Labour authorities comes beneath stress to woo the president-elect.

“I apologize to utterly no one,” Hinchcliffe mentioned to thunderous applause on the high of his dwell podcast and comedy present Kill Tony on Monday.

“To not the Puerto Ricans. To not the whites. To not the Blacks. To not the Palestinians. To not the Jews,” he added, “and to not my very own mom, who I made enjoyable of in the course of the set.”

Donald Trump has tapped his former nationwide intelligence director John Ratfliffe to steer the CIA.

Trump has additionally named Invoice McGinley — who previously served as Trump’s Cupboard secretary — as White Home counsel.

McGinley had not too long ago labored alongside indicted former right-wing media character Christina Bobb on the Republican Nationwide Committee’s “election integrity” group.

“Invoice is a great and tenacious lawyer who will assist me advance our America First agenda whereas combating for election integrity and in opposition to the weaponization of regulation enforcement,” Trump mentioned in an announcement.

Ratcliffe, a former congressman who served on Trump’s impeachment group throughout his first impeachment, later was nominated to exchange Dan Coats as Director of Nationwide Intelligence, to which he was narrowly accredited within the Senate by a vote of 49 to 44.

A month earlier than the 2020 election, Ratcliffe declassified 2016 Russian disinformation that claimed Hillary Clinton had accredited a scheme to tie Trump to Vladimir Putin and hacking of the Democratic Nationwide Committee — disinformation that was beforehand rejected by a Senate committee.

Ratcliffe “has at all times been a warrior for Fact and Honesty with the American Public,” Trump mentioned in an announcement.

Actual property developer and Trump donor Steve Witkoff has been named as a particular envoy to the Center East in Tump’s incoming administration.

“Steve is a Extremely Revered Chief in Enterprise and Philanthropy, who has made each mission and neighborhood he has been concerned with stronger and extra affluent. Steve will probably be an unrelenting Voice for PEACE, and make us all proud,” in line with an announcement from Trump.

Witkoff is also the co-chair of Trump’s inaugural committee, and he was {golfing} with Trump when the alleged second tried assassination was averted on the former president’s Florida golf membership.

Flynn, who briefly served within the Trump administration, made the remarks on X/Twitter on Tuesday in response to a tweet by controversial far-right activist Laura Loomer.

“It will be very simple to catch somebody doing this. Give everybody that’s there a one query poly (that is very simple to do). Ask them one query, “have you ever communicated with any media shops up to now week?” You’ll see the leaks disappear,” Flynn mentioned in response to a tweet by Loomer, a hard-right conspiracy theorist who traveled with Trump on the marketing campaign path.

Mike Huckabee, Trump’s choose to be the subsequent ambassador to Israel, advised CNN in 2017 that he didn’t agree with using the phrase “settlements” to explain Israeli occupations on the West Financial institution, that are unlawful beneath worldwide regulation.

He additionally mentioned there’s “no such factor” because the West Financial institution, the most important of two Palestinian territories that comprise the Palestinian state.

“I feel Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria,” Huckabee advised the community, referencing the Biblical phrases for the West Financial institution. “There are specific phrases I refuse to make use of. There isn’t any such factor as a West Financial institution. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such factor as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such factor as an occupation.”

The president of the pro-Israel nonprofit J Avenue, Jeremy Ben-Ami, mentioned in an announcement that the number of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as Trump’s subsequent ambassador to Israel exhibits that “the masks is off.”

“This announcement is additional proof that ‘pro-Israel’ for Trump is completely disconnected from any concern for Jewish values, security or self-determination,” he mentioned. “It’s all about what ‘pro-Israel’ means to extremists within the MAGA base.”

“Between Rubio and Huckabee, Trump and Netanyahu, we all know the Trump Administration’s strategy to Israel-Palestine will trample our values and endanger Israelis and Palestinians,” he added. “Biden has a slim window of alternative to blunt the influence earlier than he leaves workplace – he should use it.”

An Idaho lady who was denied an abortion in her residence state felt like a “medical refugee” when she needed to cross state traces to acquire abortion care, she has advised a court docket listening to a case in opposition to the state.

4 Idaho ladies denied abortion care after experiencing being pregnant issues and physicians are suing the state of Idaho, which has two abortion bans in place and solely permits abortions within the case of rape or incest or to avoid wasting the pregnant individual’s life with restricted medical exceptions. The plaintiffs, represented by legal professionals on the Middle for Reproductive Rights (CRR), are searching for readability on medical exceptions and when suppliers are legally allowed to supply life-saving care.

Alina Habba has emerged as a doable frontrunner to be Trump’s subsequent White Home press secretary, in line with Mediaite.

The lawyer has represented the previous president in a sequence of instances.

The outlet reported that there are ongoing discussions about Habba taking over the function, but it surely stays unclear if she’s going to settle for the place.

“She’s anticipated to be at Mar-a-Lago this week for conversations relating to a possible function,” a supply advised Mediaite.