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Elon Musk, Hulk Hogan and Dana White are among a list of speakers who are expected to honor Trump at a rally in Washington’s Capital One arena later today.
The rally is also expected to include performances by Kid Rock, the Village People and Billy Ray Cyrus.
He was Donald Trump’s man in the room as the ceasefire and hostage release deal was forged between Israel and Hamas, but Steve Witkoff is no diplomat despite his appointment as the president-elect’s special envoy to the Middle East.
Instead, he brought to the negotiating table decades of experience clinching some of New York’s biggest real estate deals, as well as opening up about his very personal loss during the arduous talks.
Born in the Bronx, the billionaire real estate developer could hardly have a more different profile from those of the American diplomats who usually craft complicated international agreements. Witkoff, 67, was raised in Long Island and trained as a real estate lawyer before charting a path in the rough-and-tumble world of New York real estate development.
He has known Trump for decades, is a Republican donor and served on one of Trump’s Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups to combat the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. He’s also going to be one of the speakers at Trump’s pre-inauguration rally Sunday, alongside Hulk Hogan, Megyn Kelly, Elon Musk and others.
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Biden and first lady Jill Biden are en route to Charleston, South Carolina, for the president’s last trip before the end of his term tomorrow.
Ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the president and first lady plan to attend a church service in the city and tour the International African American Museum.
Leaders of several sanctuary cities where officials had prominently rejected Donald Trump’s first-term immigration policies are shifting their tone as he prepares to take office again and carry out his mass deportation plans.
Some local officials have softened on how closely they want their cities to be identified with the “sanctuary city” label and have pledged to work with federal immigration authorities. But others have doubled down on their cities being sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants and reject any notion that they’d cooperate with a Trump administration seeking to deport millions of them.
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Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama are all expected to attend the swearing-in tomorrow, their offices have confirmed.
While former first ladies Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton are also slated to attend, Michelle Obama will not, according to the Obamas’ office. No reason was provided.
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