Trump’s cabinet hopefuls set for Senate grillings as Newsom urges him to visit LA: Live updates – UK Times

The attention-seeking South Carolina Representative appeared to challenge her Texas Democratic colleague to a fistfight on Tuesday during a contentious hearing about the shape of the incoming Congress.

Josh Marcus has more on another absurd performance from Mace.

If she’s confirmed, Pam Bondi — who represented Donald Trump during his impeachment — could end up overseeing a Justice Department led by other attorneys for the president. Her deputy managing the agency’s day to day could be Trump’s criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche, his deputy could be his law partner Emil Bove, and the deputy handling the civil rights division could be Harmeet Dhillon, who led more than a dozen election challenges on behalf of the Trump campaign.

The aforementioned Fox News host Jesse Watters was interviewing the retired professional wrestler on Tuesday when talk soon turned to Donald Trump’s upcoming inauguration.

Hogan suddenly cracked open a can of his own brand of beer before telling Watters: “We got a real American president, brother.

“And we’re already celebrating the inauguration even before it happens because we know we’re getting our country back, brother.”

Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, formerly attorney general of Florida, will tell the Senate today that “most importantly,” if confirmed, “the partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice will end–America must have one tier of justice for all.”

Bondi, who was part of Trump’s defense team at his first impeachment, will also pledge a “new golden age” at the DOJ and will tell senators that as attorney general, she would get back to basics like prosecuting violent crime, child predators and drug traffickers while addressing issues at the southern border.

She will also focus on defending “free speech, free exercise of religion, and the right to bear arms.”

A group of Republican lawmakers from New York say they met with the president-elect over the weekend to recruit his assistance in ending congestion pricing in the Empire State.

Less than a week into the newly implemented congestion pricing plan, Representatives Nicole Malliotakis, Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota, Andrew Garbarino, Nick Langworthy and Claudia Tenney took a trip to Mar-a-Lago to speak with the incoming president about it.

Trump has already signaled his support for ending congestion pricing – though he did not explain how he would go about doing so.

Governor Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon has called on the president-elect to respond after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro threatened to invade the US territory.

Gonzalez-Colon called on Trump’s administration to “swiftly respond and make clear to the Maduro narco-regime that the US will protect American lives and sovereignty and won’t bow down to petty, murderous thugs” in a letter addressed to him on Monday.

She called Maduro’s threat “an open threat to the United States, our national security and stability in the region.”

The president-elect is already up and posting on Truth Social this morning, albeit so far only Fox News clips of conservative lawyer David Shoen attacking Jack Smith and the FBI on his behalf.

This was his last substantial post, announcing his latest new hire:

It is also being reported that the incoming leader has appointed himself a new head speechwriter: