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President-elect Joe Biden has gone ahead with his transition plans despite a lack of cooperation from the current administration. He has appointed a host of nominees for national security positions, including Antony Blinken as the next US Secretary of State as he prepares to undo Donald Trump’s “America First” foreign policy.
It was also revealed that the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Janet Yellen, will be nominated to be the first female Treasury secretary. Biden appears willing to follow through on his promise to appoint many women to high-level positions, including as intelligence chief, UN ambassador, and potentially in various other roles.
In other news, Stephen Schwarzman, one of Trump’s closest allies, has said that the election is over and that the president must “move on.”
The businessman, who is chief executive of The Blackstone Group, urged Trump to accept that he has lost and to allow Biden’s team the necessary resources to transition to the White House.
He told the Axios news website that he was a “good process fanatic” and that “the country should move on” as the result of the November 3 vote was “very safe today.”
More than 100 former Republican national security officials also signed a letter demanding that party leaders denounce Donald Trump’s refusal to grant the presidential election, calling it a dangerous and undemocratic attack on American institutions.
Meanwhile, First Lady Melania Trump received the final Christmas tree from the Trump White House, while two turkeys named Corn and Cob rest at a downtown DC hotel before the traditional Thanksgiving presidential pardon tomorrow.
The Michigan State Board of Elections certified the results of the 2020 presidential election at a meeting this afternoon.
All 16 state voters will now go to the winner of the state’s popular vote, Joe Biden, in a major setback for Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results.
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 21:44
How Biden Could Change America’s Relationships With Iran and Russia
The Trump administration has done international damage with its ‘maximum pressure’ strategy with Tehran and its hot and cold relationship with Moscow. Undoing it all this way would be an easy victory for a Biden President, writes Daniel DePetris.
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 20:34
Biden and Harris join virtual meeting with mayors
President-elect Joe Biden with Vice President-elect Kamala Harris participate in a virtual meeting with the United States Conference of Mayors at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 23, 2020
(AFP via Getty Images)
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 21:18
‘This is what dictators do’
Whoopi Goldberg had strong words for President Donald Trump on Monday morning’s episode of The view.
After denouncing Trump’s refusal to grant the 2020 presidential elections, the moderator accused the incumbent president of organizing “a coup.”
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 20:40
Trump worries the legal team will make him look bad
NBC News reports that Donald Trump is concerned that his campaign legal team, led by his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, is made up of “suckers who are making him look bad.”
Anyone who has seen last Thursday’s press conference by the “elite strike force team” would draw the same conclusions.
One of the team members, Sidney Powell, was fired Sunday after making unsubstantiated allegations that the Republican governor and Georgia secretary of state were part of a plot to rig the election of Joe Biden.
When asked by NBC News why Trump isn’t firing Giuliani, a person familiar with the president’s thinking “gave an unholy answer that should just shrug” and said, “Who the hell knows?”
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 21:11
Kerry’s appointment arouses the ire of Republicans, but the praise of moderates
Louise Boyle, The independentThe senior climate correspondent reports on the reaction to the appointment of John Kerry as the Biden administration’s climate czar.
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 20:58
Biden’s concise comments on the nominees
The Biden-Harris transition team released a short video introducing the national security appointees.
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 20:49
More effort from the General Services Administration
The federal agency responsible for Joe Biden’s presidential transition will not inform House Democrats this week of its “continued refusal” to affirm the incoming administration of the president-elect.
House Democrats demanded that the head of the General Services Administration, Emily Murphy, responsible for millions of dollars in funds approved by Congress for the transition, report to several committee chairs by November 23.
A GSA spokesperson told CNN that a deputy agency official will brief those officials on November 30.
“We are evaluating all options if they do not inform us at the end of the day,” said a Democratic House aide. The independent Monday.
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 20:19
Blinken: ‘A mission that I will take on with all my heart’
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 20:21
Melania greets the White House Christmas tree
The 18.5-foot tall Fraser fir will grace the blue bedroom. It was delivered in a chariot drawn by two Clydesdale horses, named Winston and Ben.
Oliver O’Connell23 November 2020 19:53
