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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is suing Ann Selzer, her polling firm, The Des Moines Register and the newspaper's parent company, Gannett, accusing them of consumer fraud, according to a copy of the filing reviewed by NBC News. The suit, filed Monday night in Polk County, Iowa, says it seeks “accountability for brazen election interference” over a Nov. 2 poll that showed Kamala Harris up 3 percentage points in Iowa. Selzer announced after the election that she would stop polling political contests and move into other ventures. The suit is the latest front in Trump's campaign against coverage by the media and analysts that he perceives as biased. Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UCLA School of Law, immediately dismissed the lawsuit.

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Opinion The Editorial Board ThePresident’sArsenalIn the United States, only the president can decide whether to use nuclear weapons. On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump commented on the peril posed by the rest of the world’s growing nuclear arsenals. This article is part of the Opinion series At the Brink,about the threat of nuclear weapons in an unstable world. Now it will be the job of President Trump to pull the world back from the brink. Referring to Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump said in 2023, “He goes, ‘You know, we’re a great nuclear power.’ He says that publicly now.” Mr. Trump added, falsely: “He never said that when I was here.

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☆ Many Trump voters still have doubts about him. Can he hold them?
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-17 | by ( Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +18 min

In the exit polls, about 1 in 8 voters who described Trump as “too extreme” still voted for him. Likewise, in the VoteCast survey, Trump won 1 in 6 voters who expressed concern that he would steer the country in an authoritarian direction. Trump won almost exactly the same share of voters who said in the VoteCast survey that he lacks the moral character to serve as president. Even among the voter groups most directly affected by these policies, Trump won substantial support from people who disagreed with him. In either case, the result was that Trump won far too many voters who supported legal abortion for Harris to prevail.

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Interviews with more than a dozen individuals who worked with Patel shed new light on his path to power. After joining the White House as a member of the National Security Council, Patel became known as an aggressive colleague, sources say, often clashing with others. “The (FBI) director leads an agency that’s going after Russian and Chinese spies, mobsters, kidnappers,” one source familiar with the transition’s discussions about the FBI job told CNN. Earl Matthews, a former Trump official who worked with Patel in the White House, said he brings a unique resume to the job. ‘Why is Kash here?’By 2019, after Republicans lost their House majority, Nunes worked to make good on his promise to help Patel get to the White House.

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In an interview with Kristen Welker, moderator of NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Trump also said he’ll work to extend the tax cuts passed in his first term. Trump said he would fulfill a campaign promise to levy tariffs on imports from America’s biggest trading partners. “Well, I don’t know that you’ll see it at all,” Trump said, adding that health care experts are studying possible alternatives. Foreign policyLater Friday after the interview, Trump flew to Paris for a ceremony marking the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, which had been devastated by a fire. On another foreign policy front, Trump expressed doubt that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will be able to remain in power.

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☆ Democrats and Republicans in Congress worried that Gabbard might leak information to Syria
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-07 | by ( Dan De Luce | Dan De Luce Is A Reporter For The Nbc News Investigative Unit. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +15 min

The aides were concerned Gabbard might leak the name of the defector, who had hidden his identity out of fear of reprisals from the Assad regime. In the past, Caesar had spoken privately to members of Congress without his face covered when Gabbard was not present. The Assad regime brutally crushed peaceful political protests in 2011, firing on unarmed demonstrators and carrying out mass arrests and torture. As the war intensified, Gabbard’s sympathetic statements about the Russian-backed Assad regime raised eyebrows and alarmed her colleagues. “She basically completely adopted the Assad regime propaganda, where she suggested falsely that the U.S. was supporting terrorist extremists in Syria, and didn’t mention that the Assad regime had been slaughtering fellow Syrians there,” the former official said.

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Weeks after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Donald Trump, the Trump campaign paid a California law firm that lists Kennedy among its lawyers, according to Federal Election Commission records. The Trump campaign — now known as Never Surrender Inc. — disbursed $100,000 to “JW Howard Attorneys” on Sept. 13, just three weeks after Kennedy bowed out of the race and backed Trump, FEC records show. The Trump campaign made no other payments to JW Howard Attorneys during the 2023-24 election cycle, according to FEC records. JW Howard did not receive payments from any other campaign or committee as of mid-October 2024, according to the records. The Trump transition team, a spokesperson for Kennedy and JW Howard did not respond to requests for comment.

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☆ Trump is already acting like he's president: From the Politics Desk
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( The Politics Desk | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Plus, we dive into what Kamala Harris and Trump campaigns spent their cash on in the closing days of the 2024 race. Trump isn’t president yet, but that hasn’t stopped him from starting to act like he isBy Peter NicholasForeign leaders have lined up to speak with him. That won’t happen for another 45 days, but Donald Trump, the president-in-waiting, isn’t shying away from acting like the president-in-reality. The Trump campaign, meanwhile, reported spending $632,000, or less than 1% of its operating expenditures, on events. The Harris campaign paid $165,000 to a production company affiliated with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, who spoke at a late October rally in Houston.

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☆ How a narrowly divided nation could frustrate Trump’s vast ambitions
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-06 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But the Louisiana Republican on Thursday put his finger on one of President-elect Donald Trump’s greatest challenges. He delivered the smallest House majority since the Great Depression. Trump will need to manage Republican power more effectively in Washington than he did in his first term. The 2016 election gave Republicans a House majority of nearly 50 seats. In a House majority limited to a handful of seats, every lawmaker becomes a kingmaker.

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☆ Wall Street isn’t buying Trump’s deportation threats or Elon Musk’s spending cut claims
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-03 | by ( Matt Egan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

But Wall Street doesn’t believe the looming immigration crackdown will live up to Trump’s campaign trail hype. Nearly half of the investors anticipate annual immigration will average between 500,000 and 1 million under Trump, according to Goldman Sachs. The Wall Street bank found that more than 20% of investors expect immigration under Trump will be above the pre-pandemic pace of 1 million per year. “Our forecast is only moderately below the pre-pandemic trend because there are legal and logistical limits to executive action,” Goldman Sachs economists led by Jan Hatzius wrote in the report. Just about 10% of investors expect the Musk-led commission will be able to reduce government spending by more than $400 billion a year, Goldman Sachs found.

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☆ Village People singer defends Trump's use of 'Y.M.C.A.,' says song isn't a 'gay anthem'
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Kaitlyn Schwanemann | Kaitlyn Schwanemann Is An Intern For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

“Y.M.C.A.” singer and co-writer Victor Willis of the band Village People defended President-elect Donald Trump’s use of the song Monday on Facebook. Willis denied that the disco tune was intended as a “gay anthem,” saying he “knew nothing about the Y being a hang out for gays” when he wrote the lyrics. Willis said he wrote “Y.M.C.A.” based on what he knew about the worldwide youth organization at the time, particularly the YMCA branches in the urban areas of San Francisco. Willis said he has received more than 1,000 complaints about the use of “Y.M.C.A” at Trump’s campaign rallies. Data suggests the staple campaign moment drove the song up the charts, with search interest and listenership soaring on Election Day.

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☆ Angela Merkel recalls Trump’s ‘fascination with the sheer power’ of strongmen like Putin and Kim
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Merkel and Trump meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2017. Merkel recalled how Putin, knowing that she had once been wounded by a dog and was uneasy around them, had infamously brought his large Labrador to a meeting between them in 2007. Merkel said Putin later conceded to her that “he had lied” about this. French President Emmanuel Macron and Merkel look at Trump during a summit in Watford, United Kingdom, December 4, 2019. Asked whether she had made errors of judgment during her premiership, Merkel said: “We always have to look at matters under the conditions we were in then.

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☆ Elon Musk’s massive, multibillion-dollar Tesla pay package was blocked by a judge again
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Samantha Delouya | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Elon Musk’s record-breaking pay package for serving as Tesla’s CEO was rejected by a Delaware court, despite being approved by Tesla shareholders at a June meeting. The pay package, now worth around $101 billion based on Tesla’s closing share price Monday, is made up of 303 million Tesla stock options. The package was worth around $56 billion at the time the judge threw out the package. “The large and talented group of defense firms got creative with the ratification argument, but their unprecedented theories go against multiple strains of settled law,” McCormick wrote in a scathing opinion. “There were undoubtedly a range of healthy amounts that the Board could have decided to pay Musk,” she wrote.

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Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, announced Sunday that he is entering the race to lead the national party. “I’m running for chair of the Democratic National Committee because we need to unite. Wikler joins a competitive — and likely growing — field, including New York State Sen. James Skoufis, former Maryland Gov. and Social Security Administrator Martin O’Malley, and Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair Ken Martin. Though Trump flipped Wisconsin earlier this month, he won by 0.8% — the thinnest margin of any swing state.

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☆ How will Beijing respond to Trump’s cabinet of China hawks?
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-29 | by ( Nectar Gan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Hong Kong CNN —One called China an “existential threat.” Another called for a “whole-of-society effort” to confront China and was sanctioned – twice – by Beijing. “If you look at Trump’s team, most, if not all, are China hawks. His nominee for secretary of state, Sen. Marco Rubio, is known in China as the “anti-China vanguard” and currently sanctioned by Beijing. “Many of the hardliners indeed want a full confrontation and decoupling with China, but is that truly Trump’s objective for US-China relations? And in the eyes of Beijing, Rubio is not even the worst pick, according to Chinese experts.

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“I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General,” now-former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz posted on social media. Once the nation’s largest swing state, Florida is now stocked with Trump allies and a comfortable home turf for Republicans. It’s a state Trump won by more than 10 percentage points, up from his three-point win in 2020. “You need an Attorney General on Day 1 to be able to executive your plan,” a Trump official said. “I am kind of surprised other states are not pushing back harder, but they just are not.”“But that kind of makes sense to a degree,” Iarossi added of the state Trump won easily.

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☆ Trump sprints through transition as he faces narrow window to act in office
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-27 | by ( Steve Contorno | Aaron Pellish | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

On Tuesday, Trump’s transition team signed an agreement with the White House after months of postponing the traditional transition process – a delay that Biden officials warned could undermine an orderly transfer of power and pose national security risks. In a statement announcing the agreement, the Trump transition said it will use its own security and information systems, its own office spaces and maintain its own ethics plan. The transition team said its ethics plan will be posted online in compliance with federal law. Several of Trump’s picks have vast personal fortunes and deep ties to the private sector. Trump’s transition team has so far relied instead on internal vetting.

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— As President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration solidifies its plan for mass deportations, local law enforcement agencies are preparing to ramp up a controversial program that allows them to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It authorizes ICE to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the ability to perform certain functions of an immigration officer. According to ICE, as of May 2024, law enforcement agencies in 21 states participated in the program. Other critics have also said the 287(g) program merely serves as a political messaging tool for conservative sheriffs. Earlier this month, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance that prohibits the use of city resources in immigration enforcement.

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☆ Trump picks Brooke Rollins to be agriculture secretary
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, to be agriculture secretary. “As our next Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke will spearhead the effort to protect American Farmers, who are truly the backbone of our Country,” Trump said in a statement. Department of Agriculture officials and staff negotiate trade deals, guide dietary recommendations, inspect meat, fight wildfires and support rural broadband, among other activities. The America First Policy Institute is a right-leaning think tank whose personnel have worked closely with Trump’s campaign to help shape policy for his incoming administration. Trump has said he again plans to institute sweeping tariffs that are likely to affect the farm sector.

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☆ Trump vs. the FBI, explained
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

But there’s a growing expectation that he will quickly make at least one new vacancy by firing FBI Director Christopher Wray. “There certainly was the question, can any president fire an FBI director when there’s a legislated 10-year term,” Charles said. Robert S. Mueller III, who happened to be the former FBI director. In this 2017 photo, then-President Donald Trump sits with FBI Director Christopher Wray in Quantico, Virginia. Trump wants to go in the opposite direction today and bring the FBI more under the control of the president.

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☆ Fox hosts, cable news regulars and entertainment pros: Trump is casting a made-for-TV Cabinet
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-23 | by ( Steve Contorno | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

He has plucked two Fox News stars from their airwaves – Sean Duffy for Treasury secretary and Pete Hegseth to lead the Pentagon. Trump’s choice for ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, had a six-year run hosting a Fox News show. As a former reality TV star, Trump is deeply attuned to the power of the small screen. Among the flurry of names for non-Cabinet roles that Trump announced Friday evening were also several former and current Fox News contributors. And Sebastian Gorka, whom Trump named senior director of counterterrorism, was a Fox contributor in 2018 and 2019.

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North Carolina lawyer Katie Jenifer is trying to prepare one year’s worth of estrogen for her transgender daughter. If the Trump administration still allows trans people to change the gender marker on their passport, Greenesmith said, it might require them to provide proof of gender-reassignment surgery, putting gender-marker changes out of reach for the majority of trans people. There is no existing policy that would allow the government to require people to turn in “X” passports, for example. Katie Jenifer and her transgender daughter, Maddie, at the White House for a Pride Month celebration in June. If that were to happen, she could lose access to health care.

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☆ Your questions about Trump 2.0, answered
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-22 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +19 min

CNN —When we asked CNN readers for their questions about the incoming Trump 2.0 administration, we got a lot of nervous and scared feedback. Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump walk to Marine One at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 4, 2021. This is her response:Trump has promised to protect Social Security and not raise the retirement age or make other cuts. For more, read Luhby’s story on how a second Trump term could affect Social Security benefits. For his second term, Trump has promised to find military officials more loyal to him and that he’ll fight an “enemy from within” of political opponents.

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Americans will see the new Trump administration enact changes at a pace that is “like nothing you’ve seen in history,” a Trump campaign official said. Trump’s transition team is also fielding requests from overseas to host his first foreign trip. Coming off a decisive victory on Nov. 5, Trump has moved swiftly to build out the Cabinet and a senior White House team that will execute his plans. “The thing to realize is Trump is no dummy,” said Stephen Moore, a senior economic adviser in Trump’s campaign. Noem campaigned for Trump, though a person close to Trump was surprised he tapped her for the job.

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☆ Stellantis delays Ram electric pickup trucks until 2025
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-19 | by ( Michael Wayland | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

DETROIT — Stellantis is delaying the launch of its Ram electric pickup trucks from this year until the first half of 2025, as the trans-Atlantic automaker continues testing the vehicles. CEO Carlos Tavares on Tuesday declined to disclose details about what caused the delays or specific timing on the electric trucks, which include an all-electric “REV” model and an extended-range “Ramcharger” that’s equipped with an electric generator and a gas engine. Stellantis’ upcoming electric pickups are the first that will be built on the company’s new “STLA Frame platform” for its larger trucks and Jeep SUVs. It is expected to be a “multi-energy platform” that’s capable of internal combustion engines and hybrids, as well as electric models using batteries, fuel cells and range-extended electric propulsion systems. Doing so would deliver on Trump’s campaign comments about removing such incentives and EV initiatives.

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