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Peach and Blossom have been the names of the fortunate fowls given a late November reprieve.

Speaking of Trump’s most popular protection secretary, right here’s Katie Hawkinson with some fairly odd criticism of him within the means of attempting to brush apart the sexual assault allegation raised in opposition to him by lady he met at a conservative convention in Monterey, California, in 2017.

Hegseth has denied wrongdoing within the case.

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for protection secretary, is going through questions on his suitability in regards to the function given his previous feedback about America’s worldwide allies, The Guardian reviews, citing quotes from a guide by the previous Fox weekend man criticising Nato and the UN and expressing his perception competition that US troops shouldn’t be certain by the Geneva conventions.

“Why do we fund the anti-American UN?” Hegseth asks in his 2020 guide American Crusade.

“Why is Islamist Turkey a member of Nato?”

Of the North Atlantic army alliance, he writes: “Nato is not an alliance; it’s a defense arrangement for Europe, paid for and underwritten by the United States.

He continues: “Europe has already allowed itself to be invaded. It chose not to rebuild its militaries, happily suckling off the teat of America’s willingness to actually fight and win wars.

“The defense of Europe is not our problem; been there, done that, twice.

“Nato is a relic and should be scrapped and remade in order for freedom to be truly defended. This is what Trump is fighting for.”

Meanwhile, right here’s some new polling from Reuters/Ipsos revealing that 72 p.c of the US public disagree with him on the query of feminine troopers being deployed in fight roles.

With Republicans decided to make her arrival in Washington DC a spectacle, Sarah McBride is calmly shutting down their provocations as a “distraction” from their agenda.

America’s first overtly transgender member of Congress has been removed from probably the most vocal of candidates on the Democratic facet for the reason that get together’s disastrous Election Day however the incoming consultant from Delaware nonetheless finds herself within the middle of the House GOP’s crosshairs.

And she isn’t taking the fad bait.

Here’s John Bowden’s profile.

The incoming president has made a sequence of untamed choices to run his key authorities departments, writes Alan Rusbridger.

Matt Gaetz could have crashed and burned in his bid to turn into lawyer common, however there are many others who will provide Trump each loyalty and excessive ideologies.

Klitschko has hit out on the influential American podcaster over his current interview with music producer Scott Storch, which noticed the duo slam President Biden’s determination final week to permit Volodymyr Zelensky to make use of American-made long-range missiles in opposition to Russia.

Rhian Lubin has the story.

The president-elect’s former nationwide safety adviser John Bolton didn’t maintain again with regards to Trump’s choose for counter-terrorism director when he appeared on CNN over the weekend.

“Sebastian Gorka is a con man,” Bolton instructed host Kaitlan Collins.

“He needs a full-field FBI background investigation about his educational claims and things like that.

“I think he is a perfect example of somebody who owes his position purely to Donald Trump, he doesn’t display loyalty, he displays fealty, and that’s what Trump wants.”

Gustaf Kilander has extra.

The tech billionaire and Trump’s eldest son have been revelling within the concept of the previous (seemingly now resident at Mar-a-Lago) shopping for up the liberal community and utilizing it to parp out MAGA propaganda.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has mentioned he would break ranks and never assist Trump’s “terrible” plans to make use of the army to hold out mass deportations.

Paul instructed CBS News’s Face the Nation on Sunday that he helps the president-elect’s plans to deport “the 15,000 murderers and 13,000 sexual assault perpetrators” however solely by way of the “normal process of domestic policing.”

By distinction, Trump’s concept to make use of the army for mass deportations is “illegal” and would create a “terrible image,” he mentioned.

“I will not support and will not vote to use the military in our cities. I think it’s a terrible image.

“I’m 100 percent supportive of going after the 15,000 murderers, the 13,000 sexual assault perpetrators, rapists, all these people,” Paul mentioned. “But you don’t do it with the army because it’s illegal.”