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The Trump transition team has revealed that several of his Cabinet picks have been subjected to bomb threats.

Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said:

Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them.

These attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting’.

In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action.

Emerson College has released its first post-election pol.

It included asking republican primary voters who they would back for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028.

The poll found J.D. Vance with a huge lead on 30 percent and no other potential candidate in double figures.

Florida governor Ron DeSantis was in second place on 5 percent.

Vivek Ramaswamy had 3 percent support and Nikki Haley 2 percent.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum sent President-elect Donald Trump a fiery letter in response to his tariff threats where she warned Mexico would retaliate with its own tariffs but signaled she would like the two countries to work together.

The letter dated November 26 was sent one day after Trump threatened in a social media post to sign an executive order on his first day in office to impose 25 percent tariffs on all products from Mexico.

The president-elect claimed the tariffs would remain in place until Mexico took steps to stop illegal border crossings and drugs such as fentanyl from entering the U.S.

But Sheinbaum called Trump out in a blistering response as she outlined a series of steps Mexico is taking and touted U.S. data to emphasize the claim Trump used to make his tariff threat was wrong.

Trump Cabinet and administration picks were subjected to ‘swatting’ and threats to their lives, according to transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.

These attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting.’ In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action.

She added that ‘acts of intimidation’ would not deter the work of Trump and his team but offered no further details about who was targeted.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Washington and Beijing struck a deal for a prisoner swap.

Three Americans are being released from detention in China in exchange for unnamed Chinese persons being held in the U.S.

The Biden administration secured the release of Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung after years of diplomatic discussions with Chinese officials.

Li and Leung were accused of espionage and Swidan was detained since 2012 on drug conviction.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

The Vice President slurred her words and her eyes were half shut and appeared glazed over, at times during the video.

There is no evidence that Harris was under the influence.

Users on X edited or used AI to manipulate the video of Harris holding or sitting next to a bottle of alcohol – and one shows her smoking a cigar.

Harris has not emerged much publicly since her defeat on November 5, and when she did for a nearly 10-minute message on Tuesday to her supporters critics excoriated her for ‘bragging’ about wasting her donors’ money.

Multiple social media users called the vice president a ‘drunk aunt at Thanksgiving.’

‘Thanksgiving dinner with ‘Drunk Aunty Kamala’ is going to be a downer,’ one social media account noted.

The video was released two days before Thanksgiving as Harris holed up in California’s Bay Area for the holiday.

Kamala Harris campaign advisors sparked a lot of discussion online after appearing on the Pod Save America podcast to discuss their devestating loss to President-elect Donald Trump.

Campaign advisor David Plouffe admitted that internal polling never showed Harris ahead in swing states despite public polls showing clear leads for the vice president.

Donald Trump’s second term as president is being shaped by the loyal allies who stood by him during his four years outside the White House.

As the clock ticks down to his inauguration on January 20, all eyes will be on Mar-a-Lago as Republicans jostle for a cabinet spot or a senior role in the West Wing.

And those are filling fast. A slew of potential appointees have emerged for top Cabinet or West Wing roles and a handful of contenders for other vital positions have emerged.

He has also nominated former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who infuriated critics with claims about ‘biolabs’ in Ukraine, to be Director of National Intelligence.

Kamala Harris has been roasted for crowing how her presidential campaign raised more than $1.4billion through grass roots funds after splashing it on celebrity appearances and an ad on the Las Vegas sphere.

The Vice President boasted in a video message to her supporters that her campaign received a ‘historic $1.4billion, almost $1.5billion’ from grass roots supporters, which Harris said was ‘the most in presidential campaign history’.

‘Nearly eight million donors contributed an average donation of about $56 to fuel our people-powered campaign,’ she added.

But she has been criticised for how her campaign blowing through a billion dollars – with fingers being pointed at the celebrity-filled concert rallies in swing states that took place in the final days of the campaign as well as expensive ad campaigns.

Top Democratic megadonor John Morgan, a wealthy trial lawyer, fumed about the spending spree in an appearance on Chris Cuomo’s show ‘CUOMO’ on NewsNation.

‘All of a sudden, everybody’s got the keys to the candy store, ad buyers, talent consultants. There’s 100 days to do it, and the money started pouring in, pouring in,’ he said.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday morning that the U.S. is joining Middle Eastern countries to again work towards a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas terrorists.

It comes just hours after Israel and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire, ending 14 months of fighting between the Jewish State and the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

‘Over the coming days, the United States will make another push with Turkey, Egypt, Qatar, Israel, and others to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza with the hostages released and an end to the war without Hamas in power,’ Biden wrote on X the day before Thanksgiving.

The conflict between Israel and Hamas terrorists operating out of Palestinian enclave of Gaza has gone on for more than a year despite repeated efforts from world allies to achieve an end to the war.

The Biden administration hopes the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel paves the way for a bigger deal before Donald Trump takes office in January.

One senior official told Politico: ‘No one has any idea what will happen after January 20, so I think the time is right. The combination of Biden leaving, Trump coming and the Lebanon peace agreement — this is a golden opportunity and we should not let it slip by.’

Lebanese people return to their homes after a ceasefire agreement with Israel

As Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. oversees the National Institutes of Health,

The NIH has 27 institutes and centers that conduct early stage research on everything from vaccines for emerging pandemic threats to targets for new drugs.

Just days before his nomination as HHS secretary, RFK Jr. said he would act quickly to fire 600 people at the NIH and replace them all with new hires.

The agency employs nearly 20,000 people.

Trump has now appointed Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford health policy professor and doctor, as director of the NIH.

He was an outspoken critic of the U.S. government’s Covid policies during the pandemic.

Kennedy said:

I’m so grateful to President Trump for this spectacular appointment. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is the ideal leader to restore NIH as the international template for gold-standard science and evidence-based medicine.