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Hiatus Between November 5, 2024 - January 20, 2025: Twelve Weeks
Biden-Trump Transition
December 22 - December 28, 2024: Week Eight
The transition works this way, this cycle:
- Biden's emphasis is on pardons and commutations;
- setting up Trump for failure; Biden will fade away
- expresses regret that he dropped out of race; says he could have won (he's 82 years old)
- Trump's focus is to look presidential well before inauguration
- putting his administration (and "Shadow Government") in place;
- nominations: the big ones have all been named
- executive orders being drafted
The Florida White House:
- Trump is the president, simply waiting to make it official, January 20th (unchanged from last week)
- surrounding himself with "self-made billionaires"
- those billionaires not named to his administration are making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago
- most recent rumor: Bill Gates on his way
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The Top Stories
Top story of the week:
- Russia shoots down civilian a/c; Putin apologize
Top international non-energy story:
- Trudeau's government likely to fail but as of December 29, 2024, still the prime minister
- Trudeau's top officials race to Mar-A-Lago
Top international energy story:
Top national non-energy story:
Top national energy story:
Focus on fracking: current link here. Generally updated late Sunday night.
Top North Dakota non-energy story:
Top North Dakota energy story:
Geoff Simon's quick connects: no report this week.
