Politics

After days of speculation and strawmen, and following Mitt Romney's statement earlier, AP is reporting that President-elect Donald Trump has selected Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department, according to two people close to Trump's transition team.

The decision caps a lengthy process that often played out In public and exposed rifts within Trump's transition team. But Tillerson's close ties to Russia could still complicate his Senate confirmation hearings.

 

Hillary Clinton’s carefully concocted plan to accuse Russian hackers of helping Donald Trump win the election was openly hinted at during the third and final debate.  The video below shows Hillary pivoting away from a question about domestic immigration to raise the unexpected issue of Russian President Vladimir Putin “hacking the Democrats’ emails” in an attempt to “influence the outcome of the U.S. election”. Was she laying down the foundation for the fake news scandal that currently plagues the mainstream media?

It's official: going forward all the biggest political announcements and developments will take place on Twitter. It's also official that, as of moments ago, Mitt Romney announced that he is not being nominated for Secretary Of State, confirming that if Kellyanne Conway launches a social media campaign to belittle and crush you, that is what will end up happening.

It was an honor to have been considered for Secretary of State of our great country. https://t.co/FC9tB7rdoy

"I don't believe any of this is a coincidence at all," explains TruthStream's Melissa Dykes.

"This is a coordinated effort to take everything that the government does not want people sharing online and slap labels on it: 'hate speech', 'cyber bullying', 'fake news', and now 'Russian propaganda' - mix it all together in a giant ball and justify censoring it. You can see, when you take a step back, how coordinated this effort really is."

Politico's Glenn Thrush, the "journalist" who was repeatedly exposed by WikiLeaks for shamelessly colluding with the Clinton campaign, has been hired by the New York Times to cover the White House.  In confirming the move with The Huffington Post, the NYT's Elisabeth Bumiller described Thrush as a "premier political journalist" and "master of breaking news."