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U.S. NEWS Saturday 10 december 2016

Trump jovially rejoins campaign trail, tosses hat to a fan

said he needed Kenne-
Continued from front dy to help him enact his
He noted that he’d been agenda.
named Time’s “Person of Kennedy, the state trea-
the Year” and asked the surer, faces off Satur-
crowd if the magazine day against Public Ser-
should go back to its for- vice Commissioner Foster
mer “Man of the Year.” Campbell, a Democrat,
Gauging the boisterous re- for the seat of retiring Re-
sponse, he declared the publican Sen. David Vit-
answer was yes. ter. Neither won a majority
In private, people close to in the November primary,
Trump said he was expect- leading to the runoff. Polls
ed to name yet another have shown Kennedy with
Goldman Sachs executive a comfortable lead.
to his White House team. Come January, Trump told
The president-elect’s Na- the crowd, “The American
tional Economic Council is people will be in charge.
to be led by Gary Cohn, Your voice, your desires,
president and chief op- your hopes, your aspira-
erating officer of the Wall tions will never again fall on
Street bank, which Trump deaf ears.”
repeatedly complained He rattled through some
during the election cam- of the major themes of
paign would control Hillary President-elect Donald Trump, left, waves on stage with Republican Senate candidate John Ken- his campaign, vowing to
Clinton if she won. nedy, right, at a rally in a DOW Chemical Hanger at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, Friday, renegotiate faulty trade
Major decisions remain for Dec. 9, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) deals, repair roads and
Trump, most importantly bridges and “build a wall”
his choice for secretary phasize the “values Scot- tory tour to Grand Rapids in any lingering factions, most to guard against unlawful
of state. The deliberations land and the United States Michigan. Trump won both immediately in Louisiana, immigration.
have become a source of share.” Trump’s transition states on Nov. 8. where a victory by Kenne- “We have people com-
tension within his transition team described the con- While candidate Trump dy would cement the par- ing into our country by
team, with chief of staff versation as a “short con- was often at odds with the ty’s four-vote advantage in the thousands, thousands
Reince Priebus said to be gratulatory call.” establishment wing of his the new Senate. and thousands of people
backing Mitt Romney while In Louisiana, Trump cam- party, the incoming presi- “We need John in Wash- and now I don’t have to
other advisers oppose the paigned for Republican dent has been broadly ington,” Trump said, speak- campaign so I don’t have
idea of selecting the 2012 John Kennedy, the first stop supported by GOP lead- ing in front of a lectern that to say Hillary’s going to in-
GOP nominee given his on a day that was also tak- ers since the election. And urged voters to “Geaux crease it by 550 percent,”
fierce criticism of Trump ing his post-election vic- he is trying to consolidate Vote. Vote GOP.” Trump Trump said. q
during the campaign.
Trump announced that Obama orders review of election-season hacking
Rudy Giuliani, the former
New York mayor who was KATHLEEN HENNESSEY sible pattern of increased “The president wanted this Clinton campaign aide
an early favorite, was no Associated Press
longer under consider- WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- “malicious cyber activity” done under his watch be- were breached, emails
timed to the campaign cause he takes it very se-
leaked and embarrassing
ation.
On a busy Friday, Trump ident Barack Obama has season, White House riously,” he said. “We are and private emails posted
spokesman Eric Schultz committed to ensuring the online.
ordered intelligence offi-
also spoke by telephone
with Scotland’s First Minis- cials to conduct a broad said. The review will look integrity of our elections.” Many Democrats be-
review of election-season at the tactics, targets, key U.S. intelligence officials lieve the hackings ben-
ter Nicola Sturgeon, who
broke with protocol during cyberattacks, including actors and the U.S. gov- accused Russia of hacking efited Republican Donald
the email hacks that rat-
ernment’s response to the into Democratic officials’ Trump’s bid. Trump has
the campaign to publicly
endorse Hillary Clinton and tled the presidential cam- recent email hacks, as well email accounts in an at- downplayed the possibility
paign and raised fresh as incidents reported in tempt to interfere with the that Russia was involved.
said afterward she would
not maintain “a diplomatic concerns about Russia’s past elections, he said. presidential campaign. Schultz said the president
meddling in U.S. elections, The president ordered up The Kremlin rejected the sought the probe as a way
silence in the face of at-
titudes of racism, sexism, the White House said Fri- the report earlier this week accusations. of improving U.S. defense
cyberattacks
In the months leading up against
and asked that it be com-
day.
misogyny or intolerance of
any kind.” The review, led by intel- pleted before he leaves to the election, email ac- and was not intending to
question the legitimacy of
ligence agencies, will be office next month, Schultz counts of Democratic Par-
Sturgeon’s office said she
used Friday’s call to em- a “deep dive” into a pos- said. ty officials and a top Hillary Trump’s victory.q