Trump Wishes “Radical Left Lunatics” Happy Thanksgiving; Mexico’s President clarifies call on border and tariffs: Live

November 29, 2024

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Donald Trump wished everyone a happy Thanksgiving, including the “radical left-wing lunatics who worked so hard to destroy our country but failed miserably.” Since entering politics, the president-elect’s combative holiday messages have become something of a tradition.

The president-elect claims to have had a “wonderful” conversation with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum a day after she published a scathing open letter to him about migration, fentanyl trafficking and tariffs.

Trump wrote on Truth Social that Sheinbaum had agreed to “stop migration through Mexico,” which would “effectively” close the southern border.

The Mexican president corrected this report on X: “We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders, but to build bridges between governments and between peoples.”

Meanwhile, at Mar-a-Lago, Trump hosted Mark Zuckerberg for dinner, just months after the president-elect threatened to throw the meta-boss in prison if he tried to interfere in the election.

Stephen Miller, who was tapped to be Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, confirmed the meeting to Fox News. A Meta spokesperson said Politically that Zuckerberg was “grateful” for the invitation.

Texas’ governor threatens to cut funding to children’s hospitals over doctor’s viral post

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened a children’s hospital with “consequences” after a doctor posted a viral TikTok telling patients that they were not legally required to tell a hospital their citizenship status.

On November 1, a new executive order went into effect requiring Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid or children’s health insurance to ask their patients if they are U.S. citizens. The question now appears on admission forms at hospitals across the state San Antonio Express News Reports.

Katie Hawkinson has the story.

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 7:00 p.m

Trump’s ‘disgusting’ final attempt to drop his fraud case mentions Washington and Lincoln

Trump has appealed that ruling, but his lawyer D. John Sauer – the man Trump nominated to be the next attorney general of the United States – is urging New York state to drop the case entirely, saying it is “health-related “It is necessary for our republic.”

Alex Woodward followed the case closely The Independent from the beginning and submitted this report.

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 6:30 p.m

Biden calls U.S. military personnel to thank them for their service

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden spent the morning calling members of the U.S. military stationed around the world to thank them for their service.

This morning, the President and First Lady called units from every branch of our military stationed around the world to thank them and their families for their service to the country.

U.S. Army: Team Kulepbla, Guam National Guard (deployed)
US Marine Corps: Multidisciplinary Operations Team 1, I MEF (deployed)
US Navy: USS JASON DUNHAM (DDG 109) (Red Sea)
US Air Force: 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron (Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia)
US Space Force: Space Force Element (RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus)
US Coast Guard: USCGC CHARLES MOULTHROPE (WPC 1141) (Manama, Bahrain)

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 6:18 p.m

Watch: Lincoln Project Says “This Fight Isn’t Over”

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 6:15 p.m

Trump’s border czar blames the press for bomb threats in the cabinet

The Trump administration’s new “border czar” blames negative press coverage of him and other members of the president-elect’s team for the numerous threats against him and his colleagues.

Nearly a dozen new White House staffers and Cabinet secretaries-designate were victims of what the FBI described as “numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents” in a statement released Wednesday.

The FBI said it was investigating the incidents, which were “unequivocally condemned” by the White House.

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 6:00 p.m

Watch: Biden Family Delivers Pumpkin Pie to Firefighters

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 5:45 p.m

Putin congratulates Trump on his election victory, but does not believe he is safe

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a press conference following the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan (via REUTERS)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as an experienced and intelligent politician, but said he did not believe Trump was safe following attempts on his life.

Trump was injured in an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania in July. In a separate incident in September, a man was charged with attempted assassination after he allegedly positioned himself with a rifle at one of Trump’s golf courses in Florida.

Speaking to reporters in Kazakhstan after a summit, Putin said he was shocked by the way the US election campaign was going.

He referred to “the absolutely uncivilized methods in the fight against Trump, including an assassination attempt – more than once.”

“In my opinion, by the way, he is not safe now,” Putin said.

“Unfortunately, various incidents have occurred throughout the history of the United States. I think he (Trump) is intelligent and I hope he is careful and understands that.”

Putin, who is himself heavily protected, said he was even more shocked at how Trump’s family and children were criticized by political opponents during the US election campaign.

He called such behavior “disgusting” and said that in Russia even “bandits” would not resort to such methods.

Putin spoke about what he called the Biden administration’s decision to escalate the war in Ukraine by allowing Kiev to attack Russia with Western missiles, speculating that it could be a ploy to target Trump either to help by giving him something to push back on or a way to create his life with Russia became more difficult.

Either way, Putin said he expected Trump to “find the solution” and said Moscow was ready for dialogue.

ReutersNovember 28, 2024 5:30 p.m

How does Trump’s victory compare to other elections?

Here’s a handy graphic from Michael Thomas to put Donald Trump’s popular vote victory into context with other elections:

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 5:22 p.m

Full article: Biden addresses “counterproductive” tariff threats from Trump

Joe Biden has thrown a wrench into Donald Trump’s plan to hit Americans with massive import tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, hoping his successor will withdraw the proposal.

The president was asked about Trump’s plan to use an executive order to increase the cost of Mexican and Canadian products by 25 percent if both countries did not take action to stem what he said were unacceptable flows of drugs and migrants into the United States through their respective borders .

Biden, who is in Nantucket for his family’s annual Thanksgiving vacation, told reporters: “I hope he reconsiders. “I think that’s counterproductive.”

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 5:10 p.m

Harris’ “self-congratulatory” review of the election defeat is criticized by Democrats

Democratic officials and voters have accused Kamala Harris and her top team of failing to realistically assess why her campaign failed.

A Democratic National Committee aide who participated in a recent call with top donors said she was “stunned that there was no postmortem or analysis of the disastrous campaign.”

Oliver O’ConnellNovember 28, 2024 5:00 p.m