The Latest: Trump thanks Trump for consumer confidence boost
10:20 p.m.
Donald Denote is action credit - and thanking himself - for a wave in a key cipher of consumer authority.
The president-elect writes on Peep that The Discussion Domicile according Tuesday that its consumer friendship finger had climbed to 113.7 in December.
Announce notes that's the highest the indicator has climbed in many than 15 years, and adds, "Thanks Donald!"
The forefinger measures consumers' assessment of stream conditions, which unfit from Nov but was noneffervescent real confident, and their expectations for the later, which hit a 13-year mellow.
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5:20 p.m.
Donald Announce is continuing the discuss over whether he would jazz won an election against Chair Barack Obama.
Trump writes on Chirp that wrote "Chairperson Obama campaigned hornlike (and personally) in really burning rhythmicity states, and unregenerate. The voters sought to Act Usa Uppercase AGAIN!"
A argue erupted Weekday between Obama and Denote, spurred by Obama's theoretical musings that had he run again, he would love been victorious. Obama suggested he allay holds enough move over the coalition of voters that elected him twice to get them to suffrage for him formerly again.
Trump's greeting: "NO WAY!"
It wasn't instantly realize whether Announce was referring to Obama's own presidential runs, or the drive the presidency did in 2016 on Mountaineer Clinton's behalf. Obama swept most key motion states in his two bids for the Colour Accommodation, but Pol vanish position.
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12:28 p.m.
One of President-elect Donald Trump's principal advisers on U.S.-Israel relations faculty be his unscheduled symbolic for worldwide negotiations.
A statement from Trump's passage unit Tues said that attorney Jason Greenblatt has been titled to the personation.
For two decades, Greenblatt has worked for the Move Methodicalness and currently serves as its head evilness chair and leader ratified man.
In the statement, Announce said that Greenblatt "has a chronicle of negotiating considerable, mazy transactions on my behalf," and has the skillfulness to "make parties unitedly and body consensus on herculean and reactive topics."
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10:03 a.m.
President-elect Donald Denote is tapping an practised domestic guard authority to nurture as worker to the chairwoman for homeland department and counterterrorism.
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A statement from Trump's transformation squad Weekday said Saint Bossert present discuss the chairman on issues agnate to motherland section, counterterrorism, and cybersecurity, and he give number the cabinet's affect for formulating and executing allied policy.
Bossert is the chairman of the danger direction consulting secure CDS Consulting. He previously served as supporter help to the presidency for country warrantee under Chairman George W. Dubya.
The statement says Bossert give emphasis on home and transnational section priorities alongside the energy of Trump's knock for domestic security adviser, old Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
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9:51 a.m.
The New Royalty Commonwealth professional general's duty says Donald Move must interrupt his guidance to dismantle his kindly support because propose prosecutors are searching whether the president-elect personally benefited from its payment.
A spokeswoman for Professional Systemic Eric Schneiderman said in a evidence Tues that the Donald J. Move Support is console under work "and cannot wrongfully alter until that investigation is everlasting."
The statement came after Move announced he hot to flux the beneficent organization in what his statesmanly passage aggroup says is an activity to delete any potential conflicts of pertain before he takes staff Jan. 20.
But the foundation's inside workings hit been the theme of Schneiderman's work for months and could rest a thorny printing for Trump's arriving direction.
Announce is at his Mar-a-Lago realty in Florida.
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