White House is planning for President Donald Trump to serve a second term: Official
Trump has yet to concede nearly a week after US media announced that his Democratic challenger Joe Biden had defeated him in the November 3 presidential election.
Trump has yet to concede nearly a week after US media announced that his Democratic challenger Joe Biden had defeated him in the November 3 presidential election.
Trump broke his silence after a week without on-camera comments, speaking at a Rose Garden event to herald the imminent authorization of a coronavirus vaccine.
Ostensibly, Trump is exercising his right to complain that the count showing Democrat Joe Biden with a solid if a close win was wrong. “Rigged Election!” he tweeted in his latest broadside Thursday.
Klain, 59, also worked with Biden when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Afterwards, he served as chief of staff to vice president Al Gore.
On a rainy, grey day in Washington, the president visited Arlington National Cemetery for a sombre wreath-laying ceremony shortly before 11:30 am, four days after US media projected his Democratic rival would take the White House.
Two crew members were killed and a third was injured when the helicopter was shot down in Armenia near the border with Azerbaijan on Monday, the defence ministry in Moscow said.
He announced that Christopher Miller, the current head of the National Counterterrorism Center and former special forces officer, would replace Esper as acting defense secretary
China — among a handful of major countries including Russia and Mexico that has not congratulated the President-Elect — said Monday it had “noticed that Mr. Biden declared he is the winner of the election.”
Former President Bush agreed that Trump had ‘the right to request recounts and pursue legal challenges.’
Biden, then a senator, was one of the favourites for the Democratic nomination ahead of the 1988 presidential election.
