(New York, NY) - President-elect Donald J. Trump today
announced that Trump for President CEO Stephen K. Bannon will serve as
Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President, and Republican
National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will serve as White House
Chief of Staff.
Bannon and Priebus will continue the effective leadership team they
formed during the campaign, working as equal partners to transform the
federal government, making it much more efficient, effective and
productive. Bannon and Priebus will also work together with Vice
President-elect Mike Pence to help lead the transition process in the
run-up to Inauguration Day.
“I am thrilled to have my very successful team continue with me in
leading our country,” said President-elect Trump. “Steve and Reince are
highly qualified leaders who worked well together on our campaign and
led us to a historic victory. Now I will have them both with me in the
White House as we work to make America great again.”
“I want to thank President-elect Trump for the opportunity to work with
Reince in driving the agenda of the Trump Administration,” noted Bannon.
“We had a very successful partnership on the campaign, one that led to
victory. We will have that same partnership in working to help
President-elect Trump achieve his agenda.”
“It is truly an honor to join President-elect Trump in the White House
as his Chief of Staff,” added Priebus. “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. He
will be a great President for all Americans.”
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
Friday, October 12, 2012
White House: Buck Stops With Hillary on Libya
by Ben Shapiro at Breitbart.com
Today, the White House finally revealed its policy on embassy security: keep President Obama out of the loop so he can claim plausible deniability and blame Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for any problems. In today’s White House press conference, a reporter asked press secretary Jay Carney about the situation in Libya. Carney responded:
The President wants to get to the bottom
of what happened. Your own network interviewed the President and asked
him about the situation in Benghazi, so I would refer to what the
President said.
He is committed to finding out what
happened. He is committed to making sure that those who killed four
Americans are brought to justice, and he is committed to ensuring that
actions are taken after the Accountability Review Board thoroughly
assesses this matter, to make sure that what happened in Benghazi never
happens again. …. He's not blaming it on anything. This is under
review, it is under investigation. And I would encourage everyone to
assess that review when it's completed.
Q I want to follow on Ann’s question. She
asked if the President was upset when he learned that he had not been
told about these requests for extra security and that kind of thing. Has
he now asked to be informed about such security requests? Or has he
given any instructions that they should not be turned down, or that he
or his designate should be informed?
CARNEY: It is absolutely the case the
President is intensely focused on and committed to bringing to justice
those who killed four Americans. He is focused on the investigations
continuing so that they can follow the facts all the way to the end so
we know what happened and why. He is committed to ensuring that we take
the appropriate actions after the Accountability Review Board to ensure
that what happened in Benghazi does not happen again. What is
also the case is that requests from the hundreds of diplomatic
facilities around the country for security personnel or other related
matters are made to the State Department. They are not made to the White
House. And that’s just a simple statement of fact.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Nancy Pelosi Says Spirit of Susan B. Anthony Spoke to Her in White House
By Eric Scheiner
(CNSNews.com) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) told a recent gathering of the Women’s Political Committee that the spirits of suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Alice Paul spoke to her at the White House.
Pelosi said she heard them say: “At last we have a seat at the table...”
Pelosi says, “He’s (Bush) saying something to the effect of we’re so glad to welcome you here, congratulations and I know you’ll probably have some different things to say about what is going on--which is correct. But, as he was saying this, he was fading and this other thing was happening to me."
“My chair was getting crowded in," said Pelosi. "I swear this happened, never happened before, it never happened since.
"My chair was getting crowded in and I couldn’t figure out what it was, it was like this," she said.
"And then I realized Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Alice Paul, Sojourner Truth, you name it, they were all in that chair, they were," said Pelosi. "More than I named and I could hear them say: 'At last we have a seat at the table.' And then they were gone..."
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were activists in the women’s rights movement during the mid to late 1800’s. The Susan B. Anthony List, which works for pro-life women’s leadership in government, uses her as a namesake. The organization claims Anthony and Stanton were strong pro-life supporters.
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
White House: Aborting a Baby Because It's a Girl Part of 'A Very Personal and Private Decision'
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By Fred Lucas
(CNSNews.com) – The White House is opposed to a bill that was proposed in the House that would ban sex-selection abortions.
In defending President Obama's opposition to the bill, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said it would force abortionists into the position of trying to determine the "motivations" behind a "very personal" decision.
During the White House press briefing Wednesday, Fox News reporter Ed Henry asked, “since the president has been outspoken about being against gender-based discrimination, how can you allow gender-based abortion?”
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded that President Obama is against discrimination in all forms, but the legislation under consideration would penalize doctors.
“Well, Ed, the administration opposes gender discrimination in all forms,” Carney said. “But the end result of this legislation would be to subject doctors to criminal prosecution if they fail to determine the motivations behind a very personal and private decision. I think we, again, oppose gender discrimination in all cases. I think our record on that is very clear. The president’s record on that is very clear.
“But the purpose of this legislation – or the result of this legislation would be to subject doctors to criminal prosecution for failing to divine the motivations of their patients when it comes to a very personal and medical decision,” Carney said.
The Parental Non-Discrimination Act would make abortions based on a baby’s gender illegal by creating a penalty for those who knowingly have gender-selective abortions, coerce a woman into having one, or provide transportation to a woman so she can come to the U.S. to have a gender-selective abortion.
The bill was defeated in the House Thursday in a 246 to 168 vote, because it failed to get a two-thirds majority.
Henry followed, “To figure out how to get to the bottom of this – because when the one-child policy in communist China comes up, people of all political stripes in this country are outraged that girls are killed, essentially. How can that happen in this country?”
Carney stuck with his original statement.
“Again, Ed, we oppose gender discrimination in all its forms – in all its forms, and we don’t selectively pursue legislation in order to achieve other ideological goals,” Carney said. “We oppose it in all its forms. This piece of legislation would have the hopefully unintended consequence of criminalizing a failure by a doctor and prosecuting a doctor for criminal behavior if he or she were somehow to fail to intuit the motivations of a patient in making a very private medical decision.”
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Jeremiah Wright: I “Made It Comfortable” For Obama to Accept Christianity Without Having to Renounce Islam
Barack Obama takes his shoes off at a visit to a mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. (White House)
By Jim Hoft
(The Gateway Pundit) In a shocking interview yesterday on the Sean Hannity Radio Show, author Ed Klein said Barack Obama’s former pastor helped Obama accept Christianity without having to renounce Islam.
The Daily Caller reported:
Klein also said Wright told him he “made it comfortable” for Obama to accept Christianity without having renounce his “Islamic background,” which Klein said he has on tape.Here is Ed Klein on Hannity talking about his interview with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Klein spoke more on this in a separate interview with NewsMax:
Klein says Obama originally sought out Wright to discuss community activism.
“Quickly the conversations turned from picking up garbage on the street and getting streetlights put up on street corners to political matters and religious matters,” Klein says. “And the Rev. Wright turned into really a substitute father figure, who guided Obama in the two major areas of his life.”
The first area was Obama’s identity — just who was he?
“Obama was steeped in Islam but knew nothing about Christianity,” Klein says.
Klein asked Wright if he converted Obama from being a Muslim into a Christian.
“He said, I don’t know about that. but I can tell you that I made it easy for him to come to an understanding of who Jesus Christ is and not feel that he was turning his back on his Islamic friends and his Islamic traditions and his understanding of Islam,” Klein says.
The second area was Obama’s political philosophy. Wright introduced Obama to Black Liberation theology.Link:
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Joint Statement by President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI
A joint statement by the White House and Holy See on the Oval Office meeting Wednesday between Pope Benedict XVI and President Bush:
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush met today in the Oval Office of the White House.
President Bush, on behalf of all Americans, welcomed the Holy Father, wished him a happy birthday, and thanked him for the spiritual and moral guidance, which he offers to the whole human family. The President wished the Pope every success in his Apostolic Journey and in his address at the United Nations, and expressed appreciation for the Pope's upcoming visit to "Ground Zero" in New York.
During their meeting, the Holy Father and the President discussed a number of topics of common interest to the Holy See and the United States of America, including moral and religious considerations to which both parties are committed: the respect of the dignity of the human person; the defense and promotion of life, matrimony and the family; the education of future generations; human rights and religious freedom; sustainable development and the struggle against poverty and pandemics, especially in Africa. In regard to the latter, the Holy Father welcomed the United States' substantial financial contributions in this area. The two reaffirmed their total rejection of terrorism as well as the manipulation of religion to justify immoral and violent acts against innocents. They further touched on the need to confront terrorism with appropriate means that respect the human person and his or her rights.
The Holy Father and the President devoted considerable time in their discussions to the Middle East, in particular resolving the Israel-Palestinian conflict in line with the vision of two states living side-by-side in peace and security, their mutual support for the sovereignty and independence of Lebanon, and their common concern for the situation in Iraq and particularly the precarious state of Christian communities there and elsewhere in the region. The Holy Father and the President expressed hope for an end to violence and for a prompt and comprehensive solution to the crises which afflict the region.
The Holy Father and the President also considered the situation in Latin America with reference, among other matters, to immigrants, and the need for a coordinated policy regarding immigration, especially their humane treatment and the well being of their families.Friday, December 21, 2007
Christmas Message From the White House
Presidential Message: Christmas 2007"But the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High...his kingdom will never end.'"
Luke 1:30-33
During the Christmas season, our thoughts turn to the source of joy and hope born in a humble manger on a holy night more than 2,000 years ago. Each year, Christians everywhere celebrate this single life that the world and continues to change hearts today. The simple and inspiring story of the birth of Jesus fills our souls with gratitude for the many blessings in our lives and promises that God's purpose is justice and His plan is peace.
At this special time of year, we give thanks for Christ's message of love and mercy, and we are reminded of our responsibility to serve. America is blessed to have fine citizens who reach out with a compassionate hand to help brothers and sisters in need. We also remember our brave men and women in uniform who have volunteered to defend us in distant lands. Many of those who have answered the call of duty will spend Christmas far from home and separated from family. We honor their sacrifice, ask God to watch over them and their families, and pray for their safe return.
Christmas is a time to rejoice and remember the birth of Jesus Christ. Laura and I pray your Christmas will be blessed with family and fellowship, and we wish you a day of glad tidings. Merry Christmas.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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