Outspoken Trump supporter and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel is reportedly considering a 2018 bid for California governor. While Politico reports close Thiel friends are skeptical, the deeply-private entrepreneur's rare interview with the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd raised eyebrows and Thiel has conspicuously yet to rule out a bid.
President-elect Donald Trump greeted Sunday with a pair of early morning tweets, when shortly after 9am he said that Democrats are “most angry that so many Obama Democrats voted for me." He followed up by saying that "with all of the jobs I am bringing back to our Nation, that number will only get higher."
Meanwhile, in response to the latest Trump confrontation with Democratic lawmaker John Lewis, a growing number of Democrats will boycott Trump's inauguration. So far, at least 19 Democrats have announced they won't attend the Jan. 20 ceremony.
The simmering cold, if heating up with every passing day, war between Trump and the press may be about to turn conventional, with the occasional chance of an ICBM.
Just days after calling out CNN fake news during his first press conference of 2017, Esquire reports that according to three senior officials on the transition team, the incoming Trump administration is "seriously considering" a plan to evict the press corps from the White House.
Submitted by Mac Slavo via SHTFPlan.com,
It isn’t just that Donald Trump routinely thumbs his nose at the establishment, insults media figures he sees as unfair and bucks conventional wisdom.
It is that President-elect Trump is defying the will of the deep state, military industrial complex base of ultimate power in the United States. That is why he is treading dangerous waters, and risks the fate of JFK.