Donald Trump picks Florida Representative Matt Gaetz for attorney general

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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Donald Trump picks MAGA lawmaker Matt Gaetz for his attorney general, the president-elect and Joe Biden met in the Oval Office, and John Thune is elected Senate majority leader.

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1 |Trump picks MAGA ally Matt Gaetz for attorney general who will be tasked with targeting president-elect's 'enemies list'

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2 | Trump and Biden played nice in the Oval Office as the circus returned to DC

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3 | Republicans pick John Thune to be Senate majority leader - here's what that means for Trump's agenda

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4 | Trump's defense secretary pick thinks women should not be in combat roles in military

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5 | Full House star Dave Coulier reveals diagnosis with 'very aggressive' cancer

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The Big Question 

Donald Trump has announced that Elon Musk will head up the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency in his second administration alongside venture capitalist Vivek Ramaswamy.

Under Musk, the new office – which will operate "outside of government" – will advise on gutting federal departments and which staff should be fired if it deems they are a "massive waste."

So far, details about DOGE – which shares its acronym with the dogecoin cryptocurrency favored by Musk – remain scarce.

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Trump's pick for defense secretary 'can't remember washing hands once over last decade' in bizarre resurfaced footage

STAT OF THE DAY

$1.8 billion

Imprisoned crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried is now accused of yet even more wrongdoing, this time by the defunct exchange he founded.

FTX, which was at one time the darling of the digital currency world, is suing fellow crypto exchange boss Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, the Binance founder who acquired an equity stake in FTX in 2019, claiming Bankman-Fried, known colloquially as "SBF," committed fraud in making a later, related, deal with Zhao and wants its $1.76 billion back.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I don't think the president should pardon anyone who assaulted a police officer at the United States Capitol on January 6"

Former vice president Mike Pence, who became the target of a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, said on Tuesday he prays that the president-elect maintains his commitment to the Constitution and does not pardon the rioters.

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