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Trump's people already telling the Ukrainians they'll have to give up territory permanently, and probably also abandon any plans to join the European Union or NATO, all for some illusory "peace" that will have Russia try to take 100% of Ukraine in the not-so-distant future. And they're doing so in the most condescending manner possible, with this one, saying President Zelensky is the unserious one. Source:BBC A former adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling the country to gain back territory occupied by Russia. Bryan Lanza, who worked on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, told the BBC the incoming administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a "realistic vision for peace". "And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he's not serious," he said.

Olivia Troye, a former aide to Mike Pence, revealed that Donald Trump's team aims to replace policy experts with "carnies at the Iowa State Fair." During a Sunday panel discussion on MSNBC, Troye explained how the incoming Trump administration would use a policy known as Schedule F to replace policy experts serving in government positions. "Yeah, it means anyone that's in a policy-related role that is working for the greater good of the country is going to be replaced by the people that they're recruiting," Troye said.

Team Trump has not submitted a legally required ethics plan, stating he will avoid conflicts of interest -- so the transition process hasn't moved forward. Why anyone believes he'll follow it if he did is beyond me. Mr. Trump’s transition team was required to submit the ethics plan by Oct. 1, according to the Presidential Transition Act. While the transition team’s leadership has privately drafted an ethics code and a conflict-of-interest statement governing its staff, those documents do not include language, required under the law, that explains how Mr.

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In the NBC video report above, titled, “Who is Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff pick?” the “liberal media” outlet painted a glowing portrait of Wiles as, among other things, a “good listener.” She has definitely already proved herself that, though not in the way the NBC report meant. C&L has already reported on Wiles’ conflict of interest as a tobacco lobbyist while running Trump’s 2024 campaign.

Welcome to Gilead. All the postmortems are really missing the point. The evangelicals did this. This is your open thread for Sunday morning. Feel free to rant, scream or if you have positive things to say, go for it. - Karoli read more