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malaise

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5. Here's a link
Wed Dec 7, 2016, 11:18 AM
Dec 2016
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/trump-obama-consultation-cabinet-232304
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President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is taking advice on his political appointees from the man he spent months railing against on the campaign trail: President Barack Obama.

Trump said Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” that he has sought the president’s advice on the candidates for various appointment-level positions and in at least one case so far, has acted on that advice.

Trump spoke warmly of the president, with whom he has spoken multiple times since winning the White House a month ago. His complimentary tone towards Obama marks a dramatic shift from the president-elect’s campaign rhetoric, which relied heavily at times on attacking Obama and his signature policies.

Even before running for office, Trump’s first foray into the political world was as the most prominent supporter of the so-called “birther” movement, a baseless conspiracy that suggested Obama had been born in another country and was therefore ineligible to be president. It took Trump until mid-September to officially and publicly announce that be believed Obama had been born in the U.S., but he has never apologized for propagating the fictitious effort to delegitimize the president.

"I will say this, I've now gotten to know President Obama. I really like him. We have — I think, I can say at least for myself, I can't speak for him, but we have a really good chemistry together. We talk,” Trump said. “He loves the country. He wants to do right by the country and for the country. And I will tell you we obviously very much disagree on certain policies and certain things, but, you know, I really like him as a person.”

“I’ve asked him what he thinks are the biggest problems of the country, what are some of the greatest assets going forward. And we have a very good dialogue,” he continued. “And I must tell you, I never met him before this and never spoke to him before this. I really, I do like him. I love getting his ideas. And I may differ in many cases. I differ very greatly in many cases.”
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