Trump’s hush money trial sentencing postponed indefinitely after election win: Live

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that hedge fund manager Scott Bessent is his pick to lead the Treasury Department.

Here’s his statement in full:

Trump has offered the post of Treasury Secretary to Scott Bessent, two sources tell CNN.

Bessent, 62, is the founder of the hedge fund Key Square Capital Management.

He previously worked as the chief investment officer at Soros Fund Management, a hedge fund founded by George Soros, a Democratic donor.

Trump is set to fire the attorneys who worked alongside Special Counsel Jack Smith on two federal investigations into the president-elect and use the Department of Justice to probe the 2020 election, according to The Washington Post.

The attorneys who may become caught up in the firings include career professionals who are usually protected from such revenge efforts.

Trump is set to put together teams of investigators to look for evidence that there was fraud in battleground states in the 2020 election, according to The Post.

There’s no evidence that fraud affected the outcome of the 2020 election.

“I’m never f***ing doing this again,” White told The New Yorker this week.

Here’s more from James Liddell on his brief but potent intervention on the national stage.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has set a date for the special election to replace outgoing congressman Matt Gaetz after he resigned from Congress and withdrew his name from Trump’s attorney general nomination.

April 1, 2025, the state will hold its election for Congressional District 1, which Gaetz represented.

Primaries for the election, which will determine the Republican and Democrat candidates, will be held on January 28.

Melania Trump has named her longtime aide, Haley Harrison, as her next chief of staff.

On X, the Office of Melania Trump announced that Harrison would lead operations in the East Wing when the Trumps return to the White House in January.

According to a report from ABC News, Harrison is an unnamed “Trump Employee” in the federal classified documents case brought by Jack Smith earlier this year. That has not been publicly confirmed.

Already, Trump loyalists across the country are adopting the beliefs and policy suggestions of the presumed cabinet – starting with the Florida Surgeon General who sided with RFK Jr. on putting fluoride in water.

Joseph Ladapo, Florida Surgeon General, issued guidance on Friday suggesting fluoride should be removed from tap water due to “neuropsychiatric risk” – a claim with little scientific that Kennedy has elevated recently.

Fluoride, low levels of which are commonly added to tap water, strengthens teeth and helps prevent decay.

But a growing health trend, that often capitalizes on pseudo-science and conspiracy theories, has claimed fluoride can harm people’s brains, specifically lowering IQ in children.

Ladapo has seemingly capitalized on Kennedy’s recent nomination to secretary of health and human services to prove his alliance with Trump and his cabinet.

According to reports, Ladapo is also under consideration to head a health agency like the Center for Disease Control and Prevention or serve as assistant secretary for health under Kennedy.

The former Florida rep will not return to Congress, he told conservative activist Charlie Kirk, in an interview slated to air on Friday, answering lingering questions about whether a special election would be called to fill his vacant seat.

With Congress off the table, Gaetz said he intends to help the Trump administration recruit for key positions.

“I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch,” he reportedly said.

Far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene will lead a new congressional panel to work with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on their plans to slash the federal budget and fire workers across the government.

Greene has been tapped to chair a House subcommittee that will work in tandem with Donald Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency, an advisory board that the president-elect appointed the billionaire and wealthy entrepreneur to lead.

The “Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency” is “designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and the entire DOGE team,” the congresswoman from Georgia said in a statement to CNBC.

The panel, first reported by Fox News Digital, will recommend firing government “bureaucrats” and will provide “transparency and truth to the American people through hearings,” according to Greene.

“No topic will be off the table,” she said.