Following Roy Moore's vehement denial of teen sex abuse allegations on Friday, the weekend saw political furore rising and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have just sealed the Bannon-backed candidate's future.
"It never happened... If you abuse a 14-year-old you shouldn't be a Senate candidate. I agree with that," Moore said. "But I did not do that."
After coming under constant attack from the White House in recent weeks, Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona seems to be launching a renewed counteroffensive against President Trump. In speaking with Georgia Public Broadcasting earlier today, Senator Flake said that with the way Trump's governing and the "direction he's headed right now, just kinda drilling down on the base rather than trying to expand the base, I think he's inviting [a primary challenger]." Per The Hill:
As President Obama drops ever more chaos into the path of Donald Trump's presidency with everything from troop movements to trade disputes, it appears the president-elect had a lot to get off his chest this morning.
It began with some confident crowing about his cabinet appointments and their hearings...
All of my Cabinet nominee are looking good and doing a great job. I want them to be themselves and express their own thoughts, not mine!
President-elect Trump will have about 4,000 government positions to fill, including some of the most important posts in the US government. As CNN details below, cabinet positions require Senate confirmation, but other key posts are completely up to the discretion of the President.
So far 9 of the 16 'big' ones have been named...
The Chosen Few
Secretary of Defense
Gen. James Mattis
Retired Marine general
Recently, we exposed the main reason people will be voting for either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton: simply to block the other candidate from winning.
Now we find the motivation behind the responses: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to be the two most disliked general election candidates of modern times.