Just as they did during his campaign, Republicans insist that President-elect Donald Trump will “pivot” and moderate his proposals and rhetoric when he takes office. On Monday, even President Barack Obama said he believes Trump “recognizes that campaigning is different from governing” and that “ultimately, he is pragmatic.” But so far, Trump has provided little evidence that confirms this wishful thinking. In the week since his election, he has done more to affirm his core campaign promises than assuage concerns about his presidency, and even his deviations from his campaign platform are not providing solace for his opponents. During the campaign, Trump said: “I am who I am.” Nowhere is that more apparent than in the stomach-turning list of potential Trump Cabinet officials and senior staffers. His pledge to “drain the swamp” has resulted in a slew of lobbyists angling for administration positions, former Goldman Sachs executive Steven Mnuchin rumored as a candidate for treasury secretary and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross as commerce secretary, drawing the ire of progressives like Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). While Trump had showed signs of anti-interventionism, the leading contenders for secretary of state are war hawk John Bolton and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. Other names being floated for Trump’s administration include Sarah Palin as secretary of the interior, climate change denier Myron Ebell as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and immigration hardliners Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) for attorney general. Here are more signs that Trump isn’t pivoting: Trump hired the executive chairman of Breitbart News to be his chief strategist. On Sunday, Trump’s transition team announced that Steve Bannon would serve as Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor in the White House, meaning that a man who ran a website that espouses white nationalist and anti-Semitic views and serves as a mouthpiece for the so-called “alt-right” movement would have the ear of the president. Trump and his aides claimed “professional protesters” are behind the anti-Trump demonstrations in dozens of U.S. cities. Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016 Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani also claimed they were “professional protesters” on Sunday and accused them of “exaggerating their fears of a Donald Trump presidency.” Trump plans to deport or imprison up to 3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal records as soon as he takes office. “What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday. “But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.” Immigration experts say this figure is outlandish. Trump also affirmed that […]
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