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It doesn't get much more pathetic and brazen than this, Rudy Giuliani whining on X and begging for more cash. Tomorrow, Giuliani will be back in court and most likely be held in contempt after not turning over his assets to Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Source: New York Post Rudy Giuliani made a bold accusation Saturday that the federal government is trying to starve him to pay out the Georgia election workers he defamed. The disgraced ex-New York City mayor pleaded for pennies from the public by reigniting a months-old Give Send Go fundraiser to support his fight to reverse orders to hand over $148 million worth of assets. “Wilkie Farr Law firm and Judge Liman are trying to inhibit me from making a living.

The cast members of Saturday Night Live with their first reaction to the presidential election pretending to get on Trump's good side. The cold open got underway with castmembers Bowen Yang, Heidi Gardner, Marcello Hernández, Ego Nwodim, Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson and Colin Jost speaking directly to the camera in a serious manner. “On Tuesday, Americans went to the polls and elected Donald Trump to be the next president of the United States,” Yang says as Nwodim continues, “To many people, including many people watching this show right now, the results were shocking and even horrifying.” “Donald Trump, who tried to forcibly overturn the results of the last election, was returned to office by an overwhelming majority,” Gardner says as Thompson adds, “This is the same Donald Trump who openly called for vengeance against his political enemies.” Yang and Nwodim continue, “Now thanks to the Supreme Court, there are no guard rails, nothing to protect the people who are brave enough to speak out against him.” The cast then had a sarcastic message directly for the former president.

When The Felon returns to the White House, it looks like one member of the family will go missing: Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle. The Daily Beast gave us the sad news. At the Trump Election Night celebration, Donald Trump Jr. seemed to be repeatedly trying to detach himself from her.

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.