Post-Election Ponderings on a Friday night
If the days comes after the Trump presidency ends that the Donald decides to write an autobiography of his presidency, the chapter describing who he appointed to Cabinet post and key advisory positions should be titled "White Like Me." At least that is how it appears with his first five appointments.
Jeff Sessions - Attorney General
Mike Pompeo - Director of the CIA
Reince Priebus - Chief of Staff
Mike Flynn - National Security Advisor
Stephen Bannon - Chief Domestic Policy Advisor
All very conservative white male Republicans.
On Saturday, Donald Trump will meet with Mitt Romney. Some expect that Romney will be offered the position of Secretary of State in the Trump Cabinet. Possible. But I would not be surprised to see Governor Romney offered a position in the Trump White House as the Healthcare Czar. After all, Obamacare was modeled on Romneycare and given the need to replace Obamacare with something, Trump needs someone knowledgeable in this area to oversee his administration's efforts. Romney is perfect for this job.
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If Paul Sorvino were the President-elect and he were to have a meeting with Xi Jinping, the President and General Secretary of the People's Republic of China, I can see a justification for the future First Daughter, Mira Sorvino to be there. She speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.
No such justification exists for the presence of Ivanka Trump to be in the room when President-elect Trump met with Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Ms Trump does not, to my knowledge, speak Japanese.
But even if she did, she does not belong in that room. She is a high-ranking executive in the Trump Organization, an international conglomerate and as such should not be a party to meetings between the President and foreign government officials.
The allegations of pay for play by Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as Secretary of State are unproven. They are mere speculation. The notion that the Trump Children can act as both executives in the Trump Organization and as official participants in meetings with foreign governments is worse, on its face, and in the potential for a conflict of interest.
When it comes to the Trump presidency, the Trump children should neither be seen nor heard in any official capacity, aside from functions like state dinners. They should stay in the Trump Organization and out of the Oval Office's business.
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I wrote a blog recently on how the electoral college would look if its 538 votes were apportioned among the 50 states solely by population.
Clinton wins the electoral vote, but by a margin of 257 to 254. The other 37 electoral votes would have been divided up between Gary Johnson, Jill Stein and in Utah, Evan McMullin.
Another piece of the puzzle in determining that the Electoral College does not truly result in the will of the majority. Or the plurality, which is often the case in countries not mired in a two-party system.
The popular vote should be the determining factor in who becomes President.
Jeff Sessions - Attorney General
Mike Pompeo - Director of the CIA
Reince Priebus - Chief of Staff
Mike Flynn - National Security Advisor
Stephen Bannon - Chief Domestic Policy Advisor
All very conservative white male Republicans.
On Saturday, Donald Trump will meet with Mitt Romney. Some expect that Romney will be offered the position of Secretary of State in the Trump Cabinet. Possible. But I would not be surprised to see Governor Romney offered a position in the Trump White House as the Healthcare Czar. After all, Obamacare was modeled on Romneycare and given the need to replace Obamacare with something, Trump needs someone knowledgeable in this area to oversee his administration's efforts. Romney is perfect for this job.
* * *
If Paul Sorvino were the President-elect and he were to have a meeting with Xi Jinping, the President and General Secretary of the People's Republic of China, I can see a justification for the future First Daughter, Mira Sorvino to be there. She speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese.
No such justification exists for the presence of Ivanka Trump to be in the room when President-elect Trump met with Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. Ms Trump does not, to my knowledge, speak Japanese.
But even if she did, she does not belong in that room. She is a high-ranking executive in the Trump Organization, an international conglomerate and as such should not be a party to meetings between the President and foreign government officials.
The allegations of pay for play by Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as Secretary of State are unproven. They are mere speculation. The notion that the Trump Children can act as both executives in the Trump Organization and as official participants in meetings with foreign governments is worse, on its face, and in the potential for a conflict of interest.
When it comes to the Trump presidency, the Trump children should neither be seen nor heard in any official capacity, aside from functions like state dinners. They should stay in the Trump Organization and out of the Oval Office's business.
* * *
I wrote a blog recently on how the electoral college would look if its 538 votes were apportioned among the 50 states solely by population.
Clinton wins the electoral vote, but by a margin of 257 to 254. The other 37 electoral votes would have been divided up between Gary Johnson, Jill Stein and in Utah, Evan McMullin.
Another piece of the puzzle in determining that the Electoral College does not truly result in the will of the majority. Or the plurality, which is often the case in countries not mired in a two-party system.
The popular vote should be the determining factor in who becomes President.
posted by me at 7:26 AM
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