Donald Trump has appeared to soften his stance on a range of sweeping campaign pledges, saying in his first interview since being elected US president that he might not repeal Obamacare and that prosecuting Hillary Clinton over confidential emails was not a priority.

The president-elect, who said he would “immediately repeal and replace” Obamacare after taking office, told the Wall Street Journal he might instead seek to reform the policy, keeping the ban on insurers denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.

He said he would also look to retain the provision that allowed young adults to be insured on their parents’ policies, adding that he had been convinced of the virtues of the two points in his meeting with the outgoing president, Barack Obama, on Thursday.

Mr Trump and his family also filmed an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes to be broadcast on Sunday.

The president-elect said he would amend or repeal and replace Obamacare without any gaps in healthcare provision. “It will be just fine. It’s what I do: I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff,” he told Lesley Stahl.

Having called Hillary Clinton a “nasty woman” and “crooked” during the campaign, Mr Trump struck a conciliatory tone towards his former opponent in both interviews.

The Wall Street Journal asked about campaign promises to appoint a special prosecutor to pursue criminal charges against his Democratic rival over her use of a private email server to conduct official business as secretary of state.

“It’s not something I’ve given a lot of thought, because I want to solve healthcare, jobs, border control, tax reform,” Mr Trump said.

The statement is likely to anger the president-elect’s core supporters, many of whom chanted: “Lock her up, lock her up,” at rallies during the campaign.

He told 60 Minutes the call in which Mrs Clinton conceded the election was “lovely”, adding: “It was a tough call for her, I can imagine ... She couldn’t have been nicer. She just said, congratulations Donald, well done.” He praised his former opponent: “She’s very strong and very smart.”

Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, had also called. “He couldn’t have been more gracious. He said it was an amazing run - one of the most amazing he had ever seen,” Mr Trump said.

The Republican party’s shock victory has led to protests in some cities and on university campuses, as well as allegations of racist and Islamophobic attacks. Mr Trump told the Wall Street Journal he wants to soothe the febrile public mood. “I want a country that loves each other,” he said . The best way to do this was by creating jobs, he said.

But asked whether the tone of his campaign had gone too far, he answered: “No. I won.” The vice president-elect, Mike Pence, will play a key role in his administration, serving as a “liaison” with Congress, Mr Trump said.

On Friday Mr Trump put Mr Pence in charge of his transition team , while his daughter, Ivanka, her husband, Jared Kushner, and his sons Eric and Donald Jr joined the executive committee.

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Stephen Bannon, the former chairman of Breitbart News who directed Trump’s campaign, are also on the committee. On foreign policy, Trump described solving the Israel-Palestine conflict as “the ultimate deal”, adding: “As a dealmaker, I’d like to do ? the deal that can’t be made. And do it for humanity’s sake.”

On Syria, Mr Trump said his focus would be on fighting Islamic State rather than getting rid of Bashar al-Assad, the president. “Russia is now totally aligned with Syria, and now you have Iran, which is becoming powerful, because of us, is aligned with Syria ? Now we’re backing rebels against Syria, and we have no idea who these people are,” he said. He said had received a “beautiful” letter from the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and would speak to him soon.</s>Washington (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump signaled Friday he was open to keeping parts of Obamacare intact despite repeatedly vowing on the campaign trail to "repeal and replace" the program.

His remarks -- including his comment that he was persuaded by Obama earlier in the week to take another look at maintaining some of the program -- came as he has appeared to hedge on other campaign promises just days after winning the presidency.

Here's a look at a few other areas where President-elect Trump is seemingly backing away from Candidate Trump.

Trump has previously called Obamacare a "disaster." But, he told the Wall Street Journal , "I told him I will look at his suggestions, and out of respect, I will do that."

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" that aired later Friday, he specifically talked about the need to continue coverage for individuals with pre-existing conditions.

"Yes, because it happens to be one of the strongest assets," Trump told Leslie Stahl.

Trump also said he'd try to keep the measure that allows young people to stay on their parents' insurance plans until age 26.

"We're going to very much try to keep that. It adds cost but it's very much something we're going to try to keep," Trump said.

Trump's openness to compromising on Obamacare, however, was complicated Friday by a shift in the official positions listed on his website.

The paper said the presidential transition website has been edited to now include allowing health care workers to not perform acts that would violate their religious or moral beliefs and to "protect innocent human life from conception to natural death."

The paper also said the website omits Trump's call to allow Americans to import prescription drugs from other countries where they are sold at lower prices.

During the second presidential debate, Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton by threatening to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate -- and convict -- the Democratic nominee over her use of a private email server.

His campaign rallies were also marked by chants of "Lock her up" as supporters clamored for Trump to jail his opponent.

Speaking to the Journal, however, Trump seemed to be less committed to the idea.

"It's not something I've given a lot of thought, because I want to solve health care, jobs, border control, tax reform," he said.

Trump drew outrage last year when he called for a "shutdown" of Muslim immigration to the US. He later amended the plan, calling for "extreme vetting" and a shutdown on immigration from countries compromised by terrorism, but he never refuted his original policy and in July called the new iteration of his plan an "expansion" of his original Muslim ban.

Appearing on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss his legislative agenda, Trump was asked by a reporter if he would "ask Congress to ban all Muslims from entering the country."

Trump appeared to hear the question but walked away after thanking everybody.</s>WASHINGTON -- His nascent administration already under attack, President-elect Donald Trump was considering Monday whether to inject new diversity into the GOP by recommending a woman to lead the Republican Party and an openly gay man to represent the United States at the United Nations, Trump aides said.

Later in the day, a senior Trump official said former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is the favorite to be secretary of state. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the source isn't authorized to speak on the record. The official said there's no real competition for the job and that it's Giuliani's if he wants it. A second official, however, cautioned that John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N., remained in contention for the job.

The moves, among dozens under consideration from his transition team, follow an intense and ongoing backlash from Trump's decision Sunday to appoint Stephen Bannon, a man celebrated by the white nationalist movement, to serve as his chief strategist and senior adviser.

"After winning the presidency but losing the popular vote, President-elect Trump must try to bring Americans together -- not continue to fan the flames of division and bigotry," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. She called Bannon's appointment "an alarming signal" that Trump "remains committed to the hateful and divisive vision that defined his campaign."

[TRUMP: Timeline of president-elect's career + list of appointments so far]

His inauguration just 66 days away, however, Trump focused on building his team and speaking to foreign leaders. He remained sequestered in Trump Tower in New York.

The incoming president spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone. His transition office said in a readout that "he is very much looking forward to having a strong and enduring relationship with Russia and the people of Russia." Trump has spoken in recent days with the leaders of China, Mexico, South Korea and Canada.

At the same time, Trump was considering tapping Richard Grenell as U.S. ambassador to the U.N., according to people with direct knowledge of Trump's plans. He would be the first openly gay person to fill a Cabinet-level foreign policy post. Grenell, known in part for aggressively responding to critics on Twitter, previously served as U.S. spokesman at the U.N. under President George W. Bush.

Trump was also weighing whether to select Michigan GOP Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel, a niece of chief Trump critic and 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the people said. She would be the second woman ever to lead the Republican National Committee, and the first in four decades.

"I'll be interested in whatever Mr. Trump wants," McDaniel said Monday, adding that she was planning to seek the Michigan GOP chairmanship again.

The people who confirmed the personnel moves under consideration were not authorized to publicly disclose private discussions. They stressed that the decisions were not final.

Giuliani, 72, as a former mayor, federal prosecutor and top Trump adviser, lacks extensive experience in foreign policy, which is central to the secretary of state position. Known for his hard-line, law-and-order views and brusque manner, he would set a different tone than recent holders of the job, including Trump's ex-rival Hillary Clinton, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.

Bolton has years of federal government experience, but he has also raised eyebrows with some of his stances, including a 2015 op-ed in The New York Times in which he advocated bombing Iran to halt the country's development of nuclear weapons.

A spokesman for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a request for comment about his interest in the job. But the former mayor said Monday night at a gathering of executives sponsored by the Wall Street Journal that he "won't be attorney general" in Trump's administration -- a job for which he'd long been seen as a top contender.

Asked about the secretary of state speculation, Giuliani said Bolton "would be a very good choice." But asked if there was anyone better, he replied with a smile: "Maybe me, I don't know."

Also on Monday, Mary Jo White, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, announced that she would step down two years before the end of her term, clearing the way for Trump to reshape the way Wall Street is regulated.

The resignation gives Trump a chance early in his term to make changes to investor protections and other regulations, part of what is widely expected to be a broad effort by the new administration to scale back what Republicans consider cumbersome federal rules that slow economic growth.

Trump was also said to be considering an oil billionaire and a North Dakota lawmaker for top posts as he moves to roll back President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies and to allow the unfettered production of oil, coal and natural gas.

Trump has vowed to rescind "all job-destroying Obama executive actions" and pledged to sharply increase oil and gas drilling on federal lands while opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and other areas where it is blocked.

Topping Trump's to-do list is repealing the Clean Power Plan, Obama's signature effort to limit carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants. The plan -- the linchpin of Obama's strategy to fight climate change -- is currently on hold awaiting a court ruling.

Trump is also targeting recent Obama administration efforts to reduce air and water pollution that have been opposed by Republicans and industries that profit from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, including a rule to protect small streams and wetlands and ozone regulations designed to cut down on smog.

Those under consideration for energy secretary include Harold Hamm, an Oklahoma oil tycoon and leading proponent of fracking, a technique that uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel, and chemicals to extract oil and gas from rock, and Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, an early Trump supporter from a major oil-drilling state, according to transition planning documents obtained by The Associated Press.

Venture capitalist Robert Grady, who worked in President George H.W. Bush's administration, is listed as a contender to lead both the Energy and Interior departments.

Trump also is likely to move quickly to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, which Obama rejected last year. Trump highlighted the project at a campaign stop in Florida last month and listed it among his top priorities for the first 100 days of his administration.

Environmental groups said they don't plan to make Trump's job easy.

"We intend to fight like mad, both in the courts and in the streets, to resist any rollbacks by the Trump administration," said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.

Groups opposing the construction of an oil pipeline through the Midwest are planning more than 200 protest actions across the country today.

Internal deliberations about staffing occurred a day after Trump made overtures to warring Republican circles by appointing Bannon and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as his White House chief of staff.

The former media executive led a website that appealed to the so-called alt-right -- a movement often associated with efforts on the far right to preserve "white identity," oppose multiculturalism and defend "Western values."

Priebus on Monday defended the media mogul, saying the two made an effective pair as they steered Trump past Democrat Hillary Clinton and toward the presidency. He sought to distance Bannon from the headlines on his website, saying they were written by unspecified others.

Priebus, who lashed the RNC to Trump this summer despite some intraparty objections, is a GOP operative with deep expertise on the Washington establishment that Trump has vowed to shake up. He has close ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Wisconsinite.

Bannon, meanwhile, helped transform the Breitbart News site into the leading mouthpiece of the party's anti-establishment wing, which helped fuel Trump's political rise. Ryan has been one of the site's most frequent targets.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said Bannon's selection "sends the disturbing message that anti-Muslim conspiracy theories and white nationalist ideology will be welcome in the White House."

That view was echoed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups. It insisted that "Trump should rescind this hire."

Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate, accused Bannon's critics of sour grapes. On Twitter, he wrote that Bannon should embrace the criticism from the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

"Critics of Steve Bannon know he's smarter and tougher than they are," Huckabee wrote. "When CAIR doesn't like you, that is a good thing."

Republicans who had long opposed Trump's candidacy also took to Twitter on Sunday night and Monday morning to warn that his choice to rely on the advice of Bannon is an indication of the way that he will govern.

"The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office," said John Weaver, a Republican strategist who ran the presidential campaign of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and previously advised Sen. John McCain of Arizona. "Be very vigilant, America."

Obama avoided any direct criticism of Trump's personnel moves during an afternoon news conference, suggesting that the new president deserves "room to staff up."

"It's important for us to let him make his decisions," Obama said. "The American people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see."

Information for this article was contributed by Steve Peoples, Julie Pace, Thomas Beaumont, Ken Thomas, Donna Cassata and Bill Barrow of The Associated Press; by Ylan Q. Mui and Renae Merle of The Washington Post; and by Michael D. Shear of The New York Times.</s>That was comedian John Oliver's message to viewers last night, when he addressed Donald Trump's shocking presidential win on November 8.

On Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he summed up his feelings about this election year: "I thought I wanted it to be over but now that it's over I wish it was still going on because it turns out the ending is even worse twenty-fucking-sixteen."

Oliver reminds viewers of what a Trump presidency entails—from his support from the KKK to his power to shape the Supreme Court: "It was been wave after wave of nausea all week."

But since Trump isn't going away, Oliver asked: "How the fuck did we get here and what the fuck do we do now?”

"Optimism can feed into the normalization of Donald Trump," Oliver warns. "Giving him a chance is dangerous."

He goes on to note actions that Trump has already taken, which beget concern, not optimism: his appointment of a climate change denier to head the Environmental Protection Agency transition, and his chief of staff picks, which include Stephen Bannon, a man who oversees an alt-right news site appreciated by white nationalists and few else.

Oliver encouraged viewers to do more than "sharing thinkpieces or videos like this one that echo around your bubble." To start, make recurring donations to organizations that will need particular help under a Trump presidency, such as Planned Parenthood, the International Refugee Assistance Project, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Trevor Project, and more.

Check out our Resistance calendar for a complete listing of political protests, rallies, and discussions taking place in Portland.</s>"Saturday Night Live" kicked off its first show after Donald Trump was elected president with the perfect host: Dave Chappelle. As both African-American and Muslim, Chappelle stands at the intersection of two discriminated against minority groups. If Chappelle had also been Hispanic and a woman, he would've been every group Trump demonized in this campaign rolled into one. (Well, almost.)

Chappelle concluded his opening monologue about Trump's victory by saying , "I'm going to give him a chance, and we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one, too." Chappelle may be right that minority communities could be willing to give Trump a chance, but only -- and this is a really big but -- if Trump gives minority communities that same chance.

Now just so it's clear, Chappelle didn't go on "SNL" with the intention of currying favor with Trump. Chappelle delivered a hilarious monologue that comically fileted Trump. He even joked, "America's done it; we've finally elected an Internet troll as President."

And then Chappelle did something that hopefully more will do. He made it clear that despite Trump's win, we are not giving him a free pass for his expressed bigotry and sexism. Chappelle accomplished this with a daring joke, telling us that he was staying in a Trump hotel and when the housekeeper walked in his room, he grabbed her genitals. He then told her, "You know, boss said it was OK." (On "SNL," Chappelle actually used the same "P word" that Trump used in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape.)

After a litany of jokes about Trump, white America and Black Lives Matter, Chappelle closed his monologue with some deeply personal reflections. He spoke about recently visiting the White House and thinking about how there was a time that blacks couldn't even visit the White House, let alone dream about being President. The comedian noted the fact we now have a black President "made me feel proud to be an American, and it made me very happy about the prospects of our country."

In that context, Chappelle offered Trump a chance conditioned on him reciprocating and providing minorities with a similar chance. Now there is a way that Trump could possibly get many -- not all -- of those in communities who opposed him to keep an open mind. But it will take more than Trump making a short victory speech, in which he said he wants to be " President for all Americans ." It will take action. And, to me, that is what Chappelle meant when he said we "demand" that you give us a chance. It's not, as some headlines have suggested, that Chappelle was saying that he unconditionally wants to give Trump a chance. Rather, his point was that it was conditioned on Trump doing the same. So, if Trump truly wants to be "our president," then it's time he visits the communities he has demonized and apologizes. True, Trump rarely ever apologizes, but that would be an excellent first step. He has to at least make it clear that he realizes his remarks about Latinos, Muslims, women, the disabled and Black Lives Matter were wrong. Join us on Twitter and Facebook Next, he should name real leaders, not his surrogates from these minority communities, to visible places in his administration. This will send a message that he is giving our communities' respective voices a chance to be heard. Now to be blunt, being Muslim American, I'm not even sure that even if Trump did both these things it would be enough for me to have an open mind. After all, during this campaign, Trump demonized us countless times, from lying that "thousands" of Muslims cheered in New Jersey on 9/11, to irresponsibly stating that " Islam hates us ," to wrongfully claiming that Muslims are not informing law enforcement when we see suspicious activity in our community. But it would be a good start if he did. While most doubt Trump would follow either of these steps, most of us have been mistaken about Trump every step of the way. Maybe, just maybe, Trump will actually earn our support. But, as Chappelle said, that will require that Trump give us a chance, too. It's now President-elect Trump's move.</s>NEW YORK: Donald Trump may take a victory tour to states that elected him president, an aide said Saturday, as boisterous protests unfolded outside the tower where he holed up with members of his transition team and fielded calls congratulating him.

While he’s announced one decision — putting Vice President-elect Mike Pence in charge of the transition instead of Chris Christie — Trump must identify other people for top White House jobs and Cabinet posts. The president-elect remained out of sight at Trump Tower, with streets outside swarming with thousands objecting to Election Day results.

At one point, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, a liberal critic of Trump who nevertheless had predicted his victory, entered the tower lobby with a camera crew and asked to see Trump. “I just thought I’d see if I could get into Trump Tower and ride the famous escalator,” said Moore, who did just that until he reached the fourth floor and the Secret Service told him he could go no higher.

Kellyanne Conway, who was Trump’s campaign manager and is almost surely in line for a job in his presidency, told reporters in the tower lobby that Trump’s choice of a chief of staff was “imminent,” though not coming Saturday. Whoever fills that post will set the tone for Trump’s White House and be a main conduit to Capitol Hill and Cabinet agencies.

Among those being considered is Stephen Bannon, who took a leave as chairman of conservative Breitbart News to serve as Trump’s campaign chief executive officer.

Bannon is a controversial figure even among Republicans, seen as encouraging Trump’s more eye-opening stunts such as his news conference with women who accused former President Bill Clinton of making sexual advances. He also fanned some of Trump’s incendiary rhetoric about immigrants, Muslims and blacks. But he has no experience in governing or keeping on track an organization as large as the executive branch.

Another person being considered was the far more buttoned-down Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, an establishment figure who has close ties to House Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders, having helped to run the party for almost six years.

Conway said Trump’s next public appearance was expected “in the next couple of days.” When asked if he’d take a victory tour soon, she said: “It’s possible. It’s possible. We’re working on the schedule.”

She described his day as “meetings, phone calls, conversations, interviews. What you would expect from a normal presidential transition.”

In one gesture of normalcy, Trump pledged to be “very restrained” in the White House with his use of Twitter, “if I use it at all.” But he did not sound convinced that he could leave it behind, when asked in a 60 Minutes interview to be broadcast Sunday. Some of Trump’s most inflammatory comments, in a campaign loaded with provocation, came in his late-night tweets.

“I have a method of fighting back,” Trump said of social media. He said Twitter is “tremendous” and helped him win races in states where he was vastly outspent. He said he thinks he’s proved that social media can be more powerful than money.

Moments after Moore’s uninvited visit to Trump Tower, Nigel Farage, head of the “Leave” movement that won Britain’s vote to exit the European Union, also arrived.

“It was a great honor to spend time with Donald Trump,” Farage said of his hourlong meeting with Trump, according to a statement from his UK Independence Party. “He was relaxed and full of good ideas. I’m confident he will be a good president. ... This is a man with whom we can do business.”

Meanwhile, tens of thousands took to the streets Saturday across the United States as demonstrations against Trump continued in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and beyond.

Protesters rallied at New York’s Union Square before picking up steam and taking their cause toward Trump Tower.

“I just can’t have Donald Trump running this country and teaching our children racism, sexism and bigotry,” said Noemi Abad, 30, a fashion designer.

“Out of his own mouth he made this division. He needs to go — there’s no place for racism in society in America.”

In Los Angeles, Beatriz Devara said her 11-year-old granddaughter lives in Oregon, where classmates have been asking her when she’s “going back.”

“She’s third-generation,” said Devara, a teacher in Palmdale, Calif., who was marching toward downtown.

Protests were mainly peaceful, but in Portland, Ore., a man who was participating in a march was shot after a confrontation with someone in a vehicle. Police expect the man to survive and detained four people in connection with the shooting.

The Los Angeles Times contributed to this report.</s>WASHINGTON — Stephen Bannon, a leading force of the far-right, a flame-throwing media mogul and professional provocateur, a man who made a career out of roiling the establishment from the outside, just landed squarely on the inside.

Donald Trump’s pick for chief strategist and senior counselor signals the president-elect has no intention of abandoning his brash, outsider instincts as he puts together his new government. Trump didn’t give Bannon the top White House job — that went to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Still, Trump made clear Sunday that a man many credit with righting the businessman’s campaign — and one others accuse of amplifying a bigoted fringe — would have a plum position in the West Wing.

Bannon joined Trump’s election team as chief executive late in the campaign, following the departure of Trump’s second campaign team in August. He quickly became a member of Trump’s inner circle, frequently traveling with the candidate and working to re-shape his message to emphasize Trump’s populist and outsider appeal.

Bannon came from Breitbart News, an unabashedly pro-Trump outlet that had declared war on GOP leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, with whom Trump will have to work to pass his agenda if Ryan retains his role.

But other elements of Bannon’s tenure are getting more attention. Under his leadership, the site pushed a nationalist, anti-establishment agenda and became one of the leading outlets of the so-called alt-right — a movement often associated with far-right efforts to preserve “white identity,” oppose multiculturalism and defend “Western values.”

The site specializes in button-pushing, traffic-trolling headlines, including one that called conservative commentator Bill Kristol a “Republican spoiler, renegade Jew.” Others asked, “Would you rather your child had feminism or cancer?” and “Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.”

Priebus on Monday said “That wasn’t his writing,” referring to Bannon, although he did not specify which, if any were Bannon’s work. In the months Priebus has known Bannon, the media mogul “has exhibited none of those qualities,” the Republican chairman told NBC’s “Today.”

“Here is a guy who is very, very smart, very temperate, and together we’ve been able to manage a lot of the decision making in regard to the campaign along with Kellyanne (Conway),” he added. “And it’s worked very, very well.”

Bannon has been personally accused of prejudice. His ex-wife said in court papers obtained by The Associated Press that Bannon made anti-Semitic remarks when the two battled over sending their daughters to private school nearly a decade ago. In a sworn court declaration following their divorce, Mary Louise Piccard said her ex-husband had objected to sending their twin daughters to an elite Los Angeles academy because he “didn’t want the girls going to school with Jews.”

Alexandra Preate, a spokeswoman for Bannon, denied he’d ever said such things.

Bannon also faced domestic violence charges following an altercation the pair had on New Year’s Day 1996 following a spat over money. He was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation, domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery. The charges were dropped after Piccard didn’t show up at trial.

A Harvard MBA, Bannon began his career as a Goldman Sachs investment banker. He later capitalized on an entertainment industry deal that left him with a share of “Seinfeld” royalties, founded the Government Accountability Institute to ferret out “crony capitalism” and government corruption, and created a number of his own films, including paeans to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the tea party movement and Ronald Reagan.

Breitbart’s founder, the late Andrew Breitbart, once admiringly described Bannon as the Leni Riefenstahl of the tea party movement, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek profile. Riefenstahl was a filmmaker vilified after World War II for her propaganda pieces about Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

He was hired by Breitbart News after Breitbart died suddenly in 2012.

Unafraid to play favorites, the website early last year prominently featured positive stories about Trump rival Ted Cruz. But as Trump gained momentum later in the year, the site began pumping out pro-Trump stories — and remained a chief proponent of Trump’s candidacy through the end of the race.

Given his background and reputation, many had expected Bannon’s arrival in August to signal a new, caustic phase for the Trump campaign. There were moments. Trump’s pre-debate news conference with the women who’d accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault seemed to be signature Bannon. But largely, Trump appeared more comfortable and willing to stick to the teleprompter under the guidance of Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, who was promoted to the role of campaign manager when Bannon joined the team.

Ultimately, Bannon’s biggest influence appeared to be pushing Trump to adopt more populist rhetoric and paint rival Hillary Clinton as part of a globalist system bent on oppressing the country’s working people.

Trump’s campaign said Bannon will work “as equal partners” with Priebus. The arrangement suggests the president-elect is putting a premium on loyalty and maintaining much of his existing inner circle as he begins to fill thousands of government positions over the coming weeks.

“I want to thank President-elect Trump for the opportunity to work with Reince in driving the agenda of the Trump administration,” Bannon said in a statement.</s>Donald Trump has dismayed opponents by appointing the head of Breitbart News as chief strategist of his administration.

Stephen Bannon, who quit as executive chairman of the American news network to help Mr Trump's campaign, will also act as his senior counsel.

Launched in 2007 with the aim of being "unapologetically pro-freedom and pro-Israel", Breitbart News has evolved into a platform for the burgeoning 'alt-right' movement that is vociferously opposed to multiculturalism and political correctness.

Image: Reince Priebus will be White House chief of staff

Former Goldman Sachs banker Mr Bannon holds a Masters in National Security Studies and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and he was an officer in the US Navy before joining Breitbart, where he hosted a radio show on its SiriusXM Patriot channel.

Mr Trump has also recruited the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, to be his White House chief of staff, signalling a willingness to work with Congress to advance his agenda when he takes office in January.

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Mr Priebus is a Republican Party operative with deep expertise of the Washington establishment that Mr Trump has vowed to shake up, and has close links with House Speaker Paul Ryan.

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Mr Priebus will play a significant role in policy making and deciding what information makes it to Mr Trump's desk.

His appointment is seen as an olive branch to the Republicans who control both houses of Congress, to help Mr Trump pass the legislative agenda upon which he campaigned.

"I am very grateful to the president-elect for this opportunity to serve him and this nation as we work to create an economy that works for everyone, secure our borders, repeal and replace Obamacare and destroy radical Islamic terrorism," Mr Priebus said.

Commentators expect Mr Trump to consider Republican loyalist Newt Gingrich and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani for the posts of secretary of state and attorney general, while Sarah Palin is also being touted as a candidate for a role in his government.

America's Anti-Defamation League, which campaigns to fight "anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry", condemned Mr Bannon's appointment, describing the alt-right movement supported by Breitbart News as "a loose-knit group of white nationalists, unabashed anti-Semites and racists".

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John Weaver, a Republican political consultant who was John Kasich's chief strategist, tweeted: "The racist, fascist extreme right is represented footsteps from the Oval Office. Be very vigilant America."

Former Barack Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer noted: "Nation exhales because white nationalist only gets second most influential job in White House."

Mr Trump said: "Steve and Reince are highly qualified leaders who worked well together on our campaign and led us to an historic victory.

"Now I will have them both with me in the White House as we work to make America great again."

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Within the last 24 hours, the President-elect has had phone conversations with 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney as well as primary rivals Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, CNN has learned.

Each call was described to CNN as a cordial message of congratulations.

Months earlier, the three men comprised some of Trump's most outspoken Republican opponents, and Trump attacked each of them during the primary and during the general election.

The exchanges seemed personal as Trump endorsed Romney in 2012, but the former Massachusetts governor failed to return the favor. And after Romney repeatedly criticized Trump for his rhetoric toward minorities, Trump ended up doing better with black and Latino voters than the 2012 candidate.

Bush, once a front-runner in the primary, was often called "low energy" by Trump and criticized for not honoring his pledge to support the eventual nominee. And Kasich boycotted the Republican National Convention where Trump clinched the nomination even though it was in his home state. In the end, Trump won Ohio in the election. At the White House on Thursday to accompany the world champion Cleveland Cavaliers, Kasich said he was praying for Trump and the nation. Other former Trump rivals have offered congratulations. On Thursday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz spoke with Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush called Trump to congratulate him on Wednesday. Former President Bill Clinton has also spoken with Trump, and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton conceded to Trump early Wednesday morning.</s>There are alliances of convenience between occult organizations that rule the planet from behind the scenes, and from time to time these alliances are shattered when those vested interests collide, or when fundamental common ground and contracts are breached for some reason, or another.

Although they participated in it passionately, the Americans, at least the majority of them, are not really responsible for the Trump victory. No, it’s not the Electoral College either.

According to the United States Election Project, there are: 46.9% who didn’t vote, 25.6% voted for Clinton, 25.5% voted for Trump and 1.7% voted for Johnson.

America is not ready for Jill Stein who advocated for student debt bailout, and green jobs to revitalize the American economy. They either voted Trump because they were thinking that Stein was not a winnable candidate, or the rest of them just decided to stay at home out of sheer frustration, 46.9% of them, which made the election results a self-fulfilling prophecy, of course.

Which means that at least 46.9% of the American voters who boycotted the whole exercise may have found it futile, or deflective of the real essence of democracy, considering that there are other candidates who were purposely left out of the mainstream discussions.

If the mainstream media can be controlled, why not the voting system itself?

This massive apathy, which is the direct result of the deliberate suppression of better choices, gives more impetus for the dark forces, who are actively working against each other, to intervene for the ultimate control of America, and the entire Atlantic. Any possible spillover towards Asia is already undermined through the closing of the ranks between ASEAN and China.

“… the United States can now be classified as undergoing a coup d’état where Freemasonic forces (for the first time in 188 years) led by American billionaire Donald Trump, and aided by secretive elements within both the Sicilian and American mafia, are presently engaged in a “soon to be deadly” all-out battle against the US Federal Reserve System supported “shadow government” currently ruling that nation, and who on its side is being aided by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the La Santa Sede (Vatican/Holy See).”

“…the Freemasonic forces that led President-elect Donald Trump to victory in America this past week has now re-crossed the Atlantic Ocean to re-claim France from the rule of satanic globalist tyranny, too.

… the full totality of the current Freemason “uprising/revolution” against the satanic globalists seeking to enslave the world became more evident to Federation intelligence analysts last year when a secret 200-year-old archive of this mysterious organizations past members from 1733-1923 was released in Britain—and which the SVR and FSB were then able to use to “discover/decipher” who this ancient orders present leaders are.

One of the Freemason’s “top/main” leaders in Britain today, this report continues, is the United Kingdom’s Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, who is not only a known member of this mysterious organization, but whose powerful and secretive forces led the effort to free the British people from the grip of these satanic globalists in the stunning 23 June 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum defeat known as Brexit. ”

[We cannot post the entirety of these reports because they carried with them some false information aimed at distorting the facts that it is the Asian block that has been spearheading the actions against the Satanic Cabal from the very beginning, with the significant cooperation from the Russian-led alliance which continue to host Ed Snowden.]

The Pyramid of Occult Organizations may be jockeying for power, but the entities at the top are more than happy to give them the satisfaction.

But, the non-participants of the last US elections could be right. Initial appointments within the Trump Team don’t look promising.

Meet the Neocons, 9/11 Criminals and Goldman Bankers On Team Trump

The voting machines have decided who will be the next puppet figurehead of the Pax Americana deep state for the next four years. The circus is over and the peanut shells are being swept out of the stands. So what do we have to show for all of it?

Well, I have some good news, some bad news, and some not-so-good news for you. Let’s start with the bad news.

Apparently some people voted for Trump in the belief that he was some sort of anti-establishment truth-telling hero of the working class. I hate to be the one to disabuse you of this notion, so let’s just look at his transition team, his campaign team, the people who have already been tapped to be part of the new administration and the people who are being contacted for potential cabinet appointments. Warning: It’s not a pretty picture.

So who’s leading this transition team that’s helping to sort out the cabinet and move Team Trump into the White House? Oh, just the usual assortment of bankster-connected corporate lobbyists we would expect to be hanging around any president-elect. This time is no exception. From former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Eric Ueland to Koch Industries lobbyist Michael Catanzaro to Aetna / Verizon lobbyist William Palatucci, the gaggle of corporate cronies manning Trump for America Inc. (the actual nonprofit group set up to oversee the transition) are as establishment as they come. And the whole kit-and-kaboodle is being run by Chris Christie. Yes, that Chris Christie.

And who are they reaching out to for potential positions in the Trump White House?

Steven Mnuchin – The chief fundraiser for the Trump campaign was not featured in a lot of alt-right cheerleading for the Trump train, and for good reason: He is a 17-year Goldman Sachs veteran who went on to work for Soros Fund Management. Yes, that Soros. Oh, and he donated to Hillary Clinton. But other than that, I’m sure he’s a great fundraiser. Which is why he is apparently a frontrunner to be Secretary of the Treasury in the Trump White House. That’s right folks, yet another Goldman Sachs vampire squid alumni is within a hair’s breadth of taking over the Treasury, just like Hank Paulson and Robert Rubin before him. But don’t worry, because another person in consideration for the Treasury Secretary position is…

Jamie Dimon – I’m going to assume you know who Jamie Dimon is, but just to make sure everyone is aware, let me spell it out in black and white: Jamie Dimon is chairman, president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, the monstrous banking offspring of JP Morgan & Co. and the Rockefellers’ own Chase Manhattan. Other than Lloyd “God’s work” Blankfein, it would be hard to find a more bankster-y bankster in the world of banksterism. To list Dimon’s entire rap sheet would be an editorial unto itself, but let’s just remind ourselves of his role in the 2008 bailout fiasco via my Federal Reserve documentary, Century of Enslavement:

A stunning 2011 Government Accountability Office report examined $16 trillion of bailout facilities extended by the Fed in the wake of the crisis and exposed numerous examples of blatant conflicts of interest. Jeffrey Immelt, chief executive of General Electric served as a director on the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at the same time the Fed provided $16 billion in financing to General Electric. JP Morgan Chase chief executive, Jamie Dimon, meanwhile, was also a member of the board of the New York Fed during the period that saw $391 billion in Fed emergency lending directed to his own bank. In all, Federal Reserve board members were tied to $4 trillion in loans to their own banks. These funds were not simply used to keep these banks afloat, but actually to return these Fed-connected banks to a period of record profits in the same period that the average worker saw their real wages actually decrease and the economy on Main Street slow to a standstill.

If there’s any ray of hope here, it’s that (as I discussed with James Evan Pilato on a recent edition of New World Next Week), Dimon recently said he wouldn’t want to become Treasury Secretary due to “Democrat-Republican bullshit.” As Pearse Redmond points out, the Trump team may be floating Dimon’s name right now to make it seem not so bad when they “only” appoint Goldman/Soros insider Mnuchin to the position,

John Bolton – John Bolton is a career Republican insider who served roles in both Bush White Houses, including most recently as UN Ambassador in 2005-2006. He’s also the worst kind of crazed, bloodthirsty neocon who has literally never heard of a foreign invasion he didn’t lust after. Don’t take my word for it, listen to him explain Trump’s foreign policy imperatives…for as many seconds as you can stomach it. And yes, he’s commenting on Trump’s foreign policy because he has been advising the Trump campaign and has been name-dropped for months as a possible Secretary of State in the Trump cabinet. So are all of those who voted Trump over Hillary because they didn’t like her warmongering suitably upset now? Well if not there’s always his picks for Secretary of Defense, like:

Stephen Hadley – Hadley is the man who, acting as Bush Jr.’s Deputy National Security Advisor, served as the conduitfor the ridiculously fake yellow cake uranium forgeries that were used to help drum up the war in Iraq. He was also the guy who kept the bogus yellowcake story in Bush’s October 2002 speech in Cincinnati laying out the case for the illegal bloody war of aggression in Iraq. A share of the million dead Iraqi’s blood is on his hands. And he’s in the running to be Trump’s Secretary of Defense.

Reince Priebus – Nothing says “anti-establishment party outsider” like the current chairman of the Republican National Committee, right? Well, guess what: Reince Priebus is under consideration for Trump’s chief of staff. You know, the highest ranking employee of the White House? Priebus is apparently competing against the likes of Stephen Bannon(Trump campaign C.E.O. and former head of Breitbart News) and Jared Kushner‘s (The Donald’s own son-in-law who the Times of Israel takes great pains to point out is an Orthodox Jew, as is Ivanka Trump). Regardless of who gets the spot, the very fact that Priebus is in the running shows that Trump’s feud with the Republican Party was about as real as Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania.

Rudy Giuliani – Rudy Giuliani is an unconvicted 9/11 criminal who illegally cleared the 9/11 crime scene, and who failed to pass on the prior warning that he received about the towers’ destruction. He is also hated by the New York Fire Department for having kicked the firemen off the pile as soon as the gold was discovered. As Associate Attorney General in 1981 he was involved in the PROMIS software octopus. He oversaw New York’s unconstitutional stop-and-frisk policing policy. He is a ghoul in every sense. So naturally the only question is which spot will he fill in the Trump cabinet: Attorney General, DHS chief, cybersecurity czar, or something else entirely?

We believe the best that the Trump administration can do is replace the few unpopular, too greedy crooks with some corporate “moderates,” to give that semblance of reforms that are in their view enough to appease the wishes of the “moderate revolutionaries” who went out to cast their votes, a few days ago.

Just like we have expected, Trump is already rescaling back on his campaign promises right after his first meeting with the outgoing Obama, much like with Obama’s case right after his own inaugural meeting with George W. Bush.

One of those post-election changes are:
• There will be pick and choose over which provisions of the post 2008 financial crash Dodd-Frack Act will be repelled, or continued, and;
• It’s the same thing with Obamacare, not everything in it will be stopped.

So, the big question now is:

Will he move for the re-investigation of the WTC 911 false flag as promised?

We need to ask this question now because the proper, honest to goodness re-investigation would certainly lead to the arrest of every player who planned and carried out the controlled demolition of the three towers at the World Trade Center in 2001.

In the same token, Trump should also, upon inauguration, immediately move for the arrest of the known Satanists working within the system.

The affairs of the world will never change in the peoples’ favor unless they empower themselves with knowledge that will make them truly independent of the systems created for them by the Elite.

Together, they should work towards the obsolescence of these systems by getting their feet wet through their own establishment of a debt free economic system, and a direct participation in the crafting of binding policies through an Open Source Government System.

That’s the only way that the people could enjoy real freedom, harmony and the fulfillment of their centuries-old pursuit of happiness.

Aside from the fiat monetary scam and bloodsoaked petrodollar, another significant source of funds for the Nazionist Khazarian Mafiais the “healthcare” industry which registered a whopping $3.09 trillion in 2014, and is projected to soar to $3.57 trillion in 2017, in the US alone. We believe that this is just a conservative figure.

We can all help the revolution by avoiding all Khazarian pharmaceutical drugs, defeat any viral attack and scaremongering, like the Zika virus, easily by knowing how to build our own comprehensive antiviral system. Find more about how we can kill three birds with one stone, right here.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign chief executive and Breitbart News executive chairman, Stephen Bannon, is named as Trump's Counselor to the President.