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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (WV News) — Staff and visitors at the Harrison County Courthouse were evacuated early Wednesday morning due to smoke. The Clarksburg Fire Department was notified to the smoke at approximately 8:20 a.m. The incident was caused by a transformer in the building malfunctioning, which led to a motor connected to an air conditioning unit in the jail annex malfunctioning as well, which caused smoke to accumulate, said County Administrator Laura Pysz-Laulis. To clear the building of smoke, a rooftop vent was opened, and the draft carried the smoke out of the building, said Clarksburg Fire Chief James Greene. Within 15 minutes, people were allowed back inside the courthouse, Greene said. The power failure that resulted from the transformer malfunction caused the court computer system to falter, and a sentencing hearing had to be rescheduled as members of the court were unable to connect with a defendant virtually. These issues were not easily remedied due to the court computer system being connected to a private network through the West Virginia Supreme Court in Charleston. Officers of the court had to wait for the system to come back online, as opposed to being able to call the information technology department for assistance. “It’s not like our IT (staff) can hurry up and get in there and fix things quick. It just takes a little bit longer with it having to go through Charleston,” Pysz-Laulis said.Chuck Woolery, former host of 'Wheel of Fortune' and more, dies‘El Corrido de Luigi Mangione’: Examining the Phenomenon of the Accused Shooter-Turned-Antihero Through Mexican Music
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WASHINGTON — H.W. Crocker III thinks Western civilization is in trouble. He supports conservative Christian moral values and has decried the rise of a new, secular America where a growing number of people answer “none” to surveys asking which religion they practice. He’s lauded the Confederacy and its soldiers and generals in books like the “Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War” and “Robert E. Lee on Leadership.” And, this year, he picked up a new job: communications consultant for Sen. Josh Hawley’s Senate campaign. Hawley’s campaign paid Crocker $55,000 for communications consulting between May and November, according to campaign finance records. While it’s unclear how large a role Crocker played in the campaign, the decision to bring him in comes as Hawley appears to be at the forefront in pushing a socially conservative political message driven by religion — particularly Christianity. Hawley is at work on a book that calls for a religious revival in America, tentatively titled “The Awakenings: The Religious Revivals that Made America — and Why We Need Another.” It comes as the Missouri Republican has spent the past year honing a message that the Republican Party should focus on promoting the working class while defending faith, family and God — a bet that leaning into Christian beliefs is a winning strategy for Republicans, casting the party as the country’s moral compass while the left drives America into hedonism. With President-elect Donald Trump winning a second term and Republicans in control of Congress, Hawley’s push will find a receptive audience. He has a key ally in the White House, Vice President-elect JD Vance, who can help push Hawley’s agenda, particularly when it comes to promoting social and economic policies aimed at the working-class voters who make up the Republican Party’s base. Already, the ideology has started to gain more influence in Missouri. A state lawmaker has filed a bill to put the Ten Commandments in public schools. A Kansas City-area pastor who says there is no difference between church and state was elected to a state Senate seat. It has some Kansas City-area religious leaders concerned, like the Rev. Stephen Jones with the First Baptist Church in Kansas City. “They will not help Christianity,” Jones said. “They will hurt it. They’ll domesticate it, I guess it is the right word to use. They’ll domesticate the message of Christianity and take away the elegance of its truth. And I don’t want that to happen.” At the Capitol, Hawley responded “no comment” when asked what role Crocker served on the campaign and whether Crocker was serving as a speechwriter — as he once did for California Gov. Pete Wilson in the 1990s. Hawley’s campaign has previously said Hawley writes his own speeches. Over the past month, since winning reelection, Hawley has refused to talk to The Star on any subject without providing any explanation, saying he will not comment “now or in the future.” Crocker did not respond to an email sent to a publicly listed email address. Embracing the Confederacy In August 2023, amid a national conversation about American masculinity and the struggles young men appear to be facing, Crocker offered up a solution: Young men should follow the example of Confederate soldiers. His essay, which referenced his book “Robert E. Lee on Leadership,” focused heavily on the religion of Confederate soldiers, framing the debate over whether to take down statues memorializing the Confederacy as an effort to remove tributes to Christian men. “The torn-down statues celebrated Christian men: men who put duty above self, who prayed, who believed in self-sacrifice, righteousness, service, and heroism (and recognized it in others), who trusted in God and relished life as a gift,” Crocker wrote, saying they stood in contrast with young men and women who he deemed “the most anxious, depressed, shallow, irreligious, unpatriotic, and immoral generation in American history.” His portrayal of Confederate soldiers dates back to the Civil War, when white Southerners claimed their army was a Christian army, while the Union was composed of atheists, socialists and immigrants, despite the fact that many Christians fought for the Union and pushed for the abolition of slavery. That narrative particularly took hold after the Civil War, as the “Lost Cause” — the myth that the war was not about slavery, but was instead about preserving the Southern way of life as Southern Democrats maintained a commitment to white supremacy — spread across the country. Its influence could be found in the monuments and statues dedicated to the Confederacy, which were even erected in states like Missouri — a slave state that never left the Union, but whose people served in the armies of both the Union and Confederacy. Kansas City had its own battle over Confederate statues in 2020, as city leaders tried to remove monuments that could be associated with racism. But there is still a monument to Confederate soldiers at Forest Hill & Calvary Cemetery, looming over a historically Black neighborhood, even though Missouri remained in the Union through the war. W. Fitzhugh Brundage, a professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the Civil War and American South, said the Lost Cause still holds an appeal for a wide swath of Americans, particularly people who are skeptical of a strong federal government. He said it can be seen as one of the final moments before the federal government took on more significant power, allowing the Confederacy to be portrayed as a road that wasn’t taken. Brundage said Lee became such a potent figure in the Southern mythology because there was a large public record of his faith in letters to friends and family, because he expressed uncertainty about slavery in some letters and because he was the subject of a biography that portrayed him as a saint-like figure. But Brundage noted that Lee also fought for the states attempting to preserve the institution of slavery and expressed racism in many of his letters. “In the current environment, removing a statue of Robert E. Lee then becomes a signifier of an attack on Christian evangelical tradition, an attack on people who are in favor of limited government, an attack on anyone who doesn’t embrace the notion of reconciliation and compensation,” Brundage said. “So that that’s why I think it remains a potent symbol.” Sharing Christian nationalism Crocker began working on Hawley’s campaign in May, according to campaign finance records. That means he was on the campaign’s payroll when Hawley gave a speech embracing Christian nationalism at the National Conservatism Conference in July. “The Left’s primary purpose is to attack our spiritual unity, our common loves. They want to destroy the affections that link us one to another and substitute a set of altogether different ideals,” Hawley said in the speech. “The Left preaches its own gospel, a creed of intersectionality, of deliverance from tradition, from family, from biological sex — and of course, from God. They regard the faith of our fathers as a fetter to be broken. They deem our common moral inheritance as cause for repentance.” Crocker made a similar argument in an essay about the importance of faith in The Catholic Thing in May 2024, arguing that the political left has sought to promote selfishness instead of working toward the common good. “Such liberalism has, of course, brought us the ‘Nones’ – the rising tide of young people who profess no religion because they accept no reference points outside themselves,” Crocker wrote. “To them, faith and reason, history and philosophy, tradition and gratitude, are all irrelevant. All that matters is ‘me.’” It’s unclear what role, if any, Crocker played in the crafting of the speech. Communications consultants are common in political campaigns — some write speeches, while others research and write white papers to help with policy proposals and others just shape the general message of a campaign. Hawley has long relied on the political consulting firm OnMessage for his campaigns, using it as a one-stop shop for things like fundraising, developing ads and building a larger political strategy. Former Hawley Chief of Staff Kyle Plotkin is currently a partner at OnMessage and was a key consultant for Hawley on the campaign. Plotkin did not respond to a voicemail asking about Crocker’s role in the campaign. But while there are instances where Crocker could have shaped Hawley’s message, there are clear instances where Crocker is more of an ideological hard-liner than Hawley. Both men oppose abortion, but Hawley has said he doesn’t support banning abortion in the case of rape or incest. Crocker has argued abortion should be illegal in all circumstances. He once compared abortion to child sacrifice, saying that modern society has become so fixated on self-identity that it’s willing to allow people to sacrifice children in order to preserve their sense of self. “Child sacrifice is hardly a new thing. Sacrificing children to idols is typical of pagan societies. Today’s idolatry of choice is making idols of ourselves,” he wrote. “Christianity abolished child sacrifice and the old idolatry. If we are to abolish child sacrifice again, we will need Christianity to triumph over the new idolatry.” The speech embracing Christian nationalism caused concern among some Kansas City pastors and politicians. Jones, the Baptist pastor in Kansas City, said he’s concerned that politicians could corrupt the Christian message, causing it to be bogged down by partisan politics. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat and Methodist pastor, said he has made a point in his political career to separate his own religious beliefs from his role as an elected official — saying he once signed a bill approving riverboat gambling in Kansas City even though the Methodist Church opposed it. “The power of religion is illimitable,” Cleaver said. “And if a person believes what he or she is doing is God ordained, there are very few things they would not do. You can do a lot of bad stuff in the name of God.” Did Crocker and Hawley connect? While Crocker has worked as a speechwriter, most of his career has been spent in publishing. Along with his own writing — Crocker has written comic novels about George Armstrong Custer and the histories of the Catholic Church, the American Military, the British Empire and the Confederacy — he worked as an editor at Regnery Publishing. Regnery is also Hawley’s publisher — a business relationship formed when Simon & Schuster canceled the publication of his book “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” citing Hawley’s role in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. It is unclear whether Crocker and Hawley crossed paths through Regnery. A spokesperson for Regnery said Crocker is no longer an editor there, though he is scheduled to publish “Don’t Tread on Me” a history of the American military, in January 2024. But while there’s a clear connection in the publishing world, the work Crocker did for Hawley’s campaign would likely not include work on Hawley’s book. Hawley is legally allowed to use campaign funds on a ghostwriter, said Joseph Birkenstock, a lawyer who practices political law. 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CHICAGO — Minnesota Vikings kicker Parker Romo made a 29-yard field goal in overtime for a 30-27 victory over the Chicago Bears on Sunday at Soldier Field. Quarterback Sam Darnold threw a 29-yard pass to tight end T.J. Hockenson to get the Vikings in position for the field goal. Darnold also completed a 20-yard pass to Justin Jefferson, a 9-yard pass to Aaron Jones and a 12-yarder to Hockenson to fuel the drive. The Bears won the coin toss before overtime and started with the ball on their 30. But quarterback Caleb Williams rushed for 1 yard, lost 12 yards on a sack and was called for a delay-of-game penalty. He threw a 10-yard pass to DJ Moore on third-and-26, and the Bears punted. Before extending their losing streak to five games, the Bears (4-7) made a furious comeback from 11 points down to force overtime. DeAndre Carter’s 55-yard kickoff return set up the Bears on their second-to-last drive, when they were down 27-16. Williams then completed five passes on a 40-yard touchdown drive, which ended with a 1-yard pass to Keenan Allen with 22 seconds to play. Williams found Moore for the 2-point conversion pass to cut it to 27-24. Defensive back Tarvarius Moore then recovered Cairo Santos’ onside kick. Williams hit Moore with a 27-yard pass up the middle, and the Bears ran to spike the ball at the 30-yard line. Santos hit a 48-yard field goal as time expired in regulation to send the game to overtime tied at 27. Williams completed 32 of 47 passes for 340 yards and two touchdowns. Darnold had 330 yards on 22-for-34 passing with two touchdowns. Wide receiver Jordan Addison had eight catches for 162 yards, and Hockenson added seven catches for 114 yards. The Bears pulled within eight points on Williams’ 10-yard touchdown pass to Moore with 7 minutes, 22 seconds to play. Williams’ 2-point conversion pass to Allen was out of reach, and they trailed 24-16. The Vikings (9-2) responded with a 26-yard field goal to make it a two-score game. Darnold briefly left the drive with an injury, and backup Nick Mullens completed a 14-yard pass on third-and-13. Darnold returned to complete the drive, which Romo finished with his second field goal and a 27-16 lead before the Bears mounted the comeback. The Bears had two big special teams mistakes earlier in the game that looked costly. In the first half, Santos had his second straight field goal blocked on a 48-yard attempt. And late in the third quarter, Carter had a punt hit his leg and Vikings outside linebacker Bo Richter recovered at the Bears 5-yard line. Five plays later, Jones scored on a 2-yard run for a 24-10 lead. ©2024 Chicago Tribune. Visit at chicagotribune.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.Enhancing Workplace Safety with Risk Management Hazard Software
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News junkies will find much to love in “September 5,” a fictionalized account of ABC’s live coverage of the hostage crisis during the 1972 Munich Olympics . There are spirited debates about reporting with only one source, use of words like “terrorism” and what to do if violence breaks out during a live shot. There are negotiations with rival networks over satellite usage, disguises and fake badges made to get reels of 16mm film in and out of the locked down Olympic village and plenty of confused men (and a few women) trying to keep up with an ever-escalating situation. The film is a moment by moment retelling of how a group of sports broadcasters brought this story to the world in real time, despite the technical limitations and their own inexperience across a confusing 22 hours. Everyone came to the studio that night ready for breaking sports news, scores and pre-packaged interviews. Even that was going to be a test for the man running the control room for the first time. Geoffrey Mason, portrayed by John Magaro , was a 28-year-old coordinating producer. Someone wonders about his experience and is assured that he’s covered minor league baseball games. But in the early hours of Sept. 5, 1972 , eight members of a Palestinian group called Black September broke into the Olympic village and attacked the Israeli delegation killing wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossi Romano. Some escaped, but nine others were taken hostage. While the tragedy of the Munich Olympics has certainly been told many times, writer and director Tim Fehlbaum saw an opportunity in the team behind the live broadcast. And he commits fully to staying in the newsroom, with all of its glorious old technologies, from the walkie-talkies they used to stay in touch and to taking time to show how they had to manually add text to the screens. He and his screenwriter were able to reconstruct the events almost minute-by-minute, which helped shape the screenplay. The players are many in this large ensemble. Peter Sarsgaard , who’s looked right in a newsroom since “Shattered Glass,” gives gravitas to Roone Arledge, then-president of ABC Sports, and Ben Chaplin is operations engineer Marvin Bader. Leonie Benesch is Marianne Gebhardt, a German-speaking interpreter who is the only person there able to understand the language of the country. She might be a bit of a composite who checks off a lot of boxes as both an entrepreneurial woman and a younger German offering perspective and insight into what this moment might mean for the country trying to put on a good front in the aftermath of World War II. An actor (Benjamin Walker) plays broadcaster Peter Jennings, and real archival footage of anchor Jim McKay from that day is used in the film. And while they all rise to the occasion, mistakes are made – including a rather big one at the end, following imperfect secondhand information from the Fuerstenfeldbruck airfield. They don’t call it the first draft of history for nothing, after all, and it may be illuminating for audiences to see how it’s handled. The film looks of its time, but it also feels fairly modern in its sensibilities which makes it always seem more like a re-telling than an in-the-moment experience. This may be to its detriment, yet it’s still an undeniably riveting and compelling watch. The word thrilling doesn’t seem appropriate, however. This is not “Apollo 13” after all. The end is not a happy one. But at time when trust in the media is in crisis, this film is a great humanizer, reminding audiences that the media is far from a monolith, but a group of individuals under immense pressure to get the story right, get the story out and go back and do it again the next day. “September 5,” a Paramount Pictures release in theaters Friday, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for language. Running time: 94. Three stars out of four.
Surgery Partners, Inc. ( NASDAQ:SGRY – Get Free Report ) has earned a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the eight analysts that are covering the stock, Marketbeat reports. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and six have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 12 month target price among brokerages that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $38.71. A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on SGRY shares. Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and issued a $43.00 price objective on shares of Surgery Partners in a research note on Friday, October 4th. Benchmark restated a “buy” rating and set a $50.00 price target on shares of Surgery Partners in a research report on Monday, August 26th. Macquarie reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $34.00 price objective on shares of Surgery Partners in a report on Tuesday, November 19th. Royal Bank of Canada dropped their target price on Surgery Partners from $49.00 to $35.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price target on Surgery Partners from $38.00 to $36.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, August 7th. Check Out Our Latest Stock Analysis on SGRY Institutional Inflows and Outflows Surgery Partners Trading Down 1.5 % NASDAQ SGRY opened at $23.01 on Tuesday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.66, a current ratio of 1.80 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.99. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $29.86 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $28.35. Surgery Partners has a twelve month low of $21.36 and a twelve month high of $36.92. The company has a market capitalization of $2.92 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -47.94, a PEG ratio of 19.44 and a beta of 2.76. Surgery Partners ( NASDAQ:SGRY – Get Free Report ) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November 12th. The company reported $0.19 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.25 by ($0.06). The firm had revenue of $770.40 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $768.99 million. Surgery Partners had a negative net margin of 2.03% and a positive return on equity of 2.85%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 14.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.15 earnings per share. Research analysts forecast that Surgery Partners will post 0.73 EPS for the current fiscal year. About Surgery Partners ( Get Free Report Surgery Partners, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates a network of surgical facilities and ancillary services in the United States. The company provides ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals that offer non-emergency surgical procedures in various specialties, including orthopedics and pain management, ophthalmology, gastroenterology, and general surgery. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Surgery Partners Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Surgery Partners and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
OTTAWA — Two senior members of the federal cabinet were in Florida Friday pushing Canada's new $1.3 billion border plan with members of Donald Trump's transition team, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau himself appeared to finally push back at the president-elect over his social media posts about turning Canada into the 51st state. Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affair Minister Melanie Joly shared few details of their meetings in Palm Beach, simply saying in a statement the U.S. officials they met with took notes and agreed to relay messages to Trump. "Minister LeBlanc and Minister Joly had a positive, productive meeting at Mar-a-Lago with Howard Lutnick and Doug Burgum, as a followup to the dinner between the prime minister and President Trump last month," wrote Jean-Sébastien Comeau, a spokesman for LeBlanc. Lutnick is Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, and Burgum is the former governor of North Dakota and current nominee for secretary of the interior. When announcing Lutnick as his commerce pick Trump said the chief executive of the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald would be in charge of the Trump "tariff and trade agenda." "Both Ministers outlined the measures in Canada’s Border Plan and reiterated the shared commitment to strengthen border security as well as combat the harm caused by fentanyl to save Canadian and American lives." He added the ministers agreed to continue the discussions in the coming weeks. Joly is also expected to meet in Florida with senator Lindsay Graham Friday evening. This trip comes less than four weeks before Trump is sworn in again as president. He has threatened to impose a new 25 per cent import tariff on Canada and Mexico the same day over concerns about a trade imbalance, as well as illegal drugs and migration issues at the borders. The broad strokes of Canada's new border plan were made public Dec. 17, including a new aerial intelligence task force to provide round-the-clock surveillance of the border, and improved efforts using technology and canine teams to seek out drugs in shipments leaving Canada. Comeau said earlier Friday morning the ministers would also emphasize the negative impacts of Trump's threatened tariffs on both Canada and the U.S. Comeau said the ministers were to build on the discussions that took place last month when Trudeau and LeBlanc met Trump at Mar-a-Lago just days after Trump first made his tariff threat. It was at that dinner on Nov. 29 when Trump first raised the notion of Canada becoming the 51st state, a comment LeBlanc has repeatedly since insisted was just a joke. But Trump has continued the quip repeatedly in various social media posts, including in his Christmas Day message when he said Canadians would pay lower taxes and have better military protection if they became Americans. He has taken to calling Trudeau "governor" instead of prime minister. It isn't clear if LeBlanc raised the issue with Trump's team in Palm Beach Friday. Trudeau had not directly responded to any of the jabs, but on Thursday posted a link to a six-minute long video on YouTube from 2010 in which American journalist Tom Brokaw "explains Canada to Americans." "Some information about Canada for Americans" was all he wrote in the post. The video, which originally aired during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, explains similarities between the two countries, including their founding based on immigration, their trading relationship and the actions of the Canadian Army in World War 2 and other modern conflicts. "In the long history of sovereign neighbours there has never been a relationship as close, productive and peaceful as the U.S. and Canada," Brokaw says in the video. Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, who is at the centre of some of Trudeau's recent domestic political troubles, also called out Trump's antics on X Thursday, calling it "casual disrespect" and "carrying the 'joke' too far." "Time to call it out, stand up for Canada, and build a true North American partnership," said Carney, who Trudeau was courting to join his cabinet before Chrystia Freeland resigned as finance minister last week. Freeland's sudden departure, three days after Trudeau informed her he would be firing her as finance minister in favour of Carney, left Trudeau's leadership even more bruised than it already was. Despite the expectation Carney would assume the role, he did not and has not made any statements about it. LeBlanc was sworn in as finance minister instead the same day Freeland quit. More than two dozen Liberal MPs have publicly called on Trudeau to resign as leader, and Trudeau is said to be taking the holidays to think about his next steps. He is currently vacationing in British Columbia. He did not make a public statement about the meeting as of publication. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 27, 2024. Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian PressAndre Onana welcomes surprise special guest to Old Trafford as Man United 'rematch' called for
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Retired soldier charged for alleged involvement in farm work scamDonald Trump Jr. has emerged as the most influential Trump family member in the transition as the president-elect builds the most controversial cabinet in modern U.S. history, according to a half dozen sources with knowledge of his role, elevating inexperienced loyalists over more qualified candidates for top positions in his administration. Trump, who fiercely prizes loyalty, has long relied on family members for political advice, but which relative has his ear is known to vary. This time, it is Don Jr., who has helped cabinet contenders sink or rise to the fore – from championing Senator JD Vance as Trump's running mate to blocking former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from joining the cabinet, according to the sources, who include donors, personal friends and political allies. Don Jr. is due to join conservative venture capital fund 1789 Capital, although one of the sources said he will continue to host his politics-focused podcast and support candidates that espouse Trump's brand of politics. He will provide advice to his father in the White House, the source added, although they cautioned that Don Jr. was unlikely to be involved in day-to-day deliberations. Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team. Don Jr. and the Trump-Vance transition team did not respond to a request for comment. In addition to ensuring candidates are loyal to his father, Don Jr. typically seeks out contenders who embrace an anti-establishment worldview, including protectionist economic policies, and a reduction in military interventions and overseas aid, according to a handful of the sources and Don Jr.'s own comments on social media site X and in public. Two of the candidates Don Jr. championed may face a rocky confirmation process in the Senate: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who Trump plans to nominate as the top U.S. health official, and Tulsi Gabbard, who Trump plans to nominate as intelligence chief. Kennedy is an environmental activist who has spread misinformation on vaccines. Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman, implied that Russian President Vladimir Putin had valid grounds for invading Ukraine and stirred controversy when she met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the midst of his bloody crackdown on dissidents in 2017. Influential – to a point Don Jr. was also instrumental in lobbying his father to pick his close friend Vance as Trump's running mate. Vance was popular with Trump's base, but his anti-corporate rhetoric, opposition to Ukraine aid and past comments panning some Democratic women as "childless cat ladies" gave some donors and supporters pause. Trump was ultimately happy with Vance, giving Don Jr. extra political capital as an adviser during the transition, one of the sources added. Not all of Don Jr.'s picks have landed jobs. He was keen on Ric Grenell, a personal friend and former ambassador to Germany, getting secretary of state, according to a separate source familiar with the matter. His father ended up picking Senator Marco Rubio, whose views are deemed by Trump's core supporters as too traditional and internationalist. Two of the sources close to Don Jr. said he does not weigh in on all personnel decisions and is not working on the transition process or at Mar-a-Lago full time. He is also not expected to play a big role in vetting candidates for lower-level jobs, one of the sources close to him said. "The reality this time is we actually know what we're doing," Don Jr. told Fox News earlier this month. "And it's about surrounding my father with people who are both competent and loyal." Following in his sister's footsteps Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner were prominent in his 2016 presidential campaign, the subsequent transition and throughout his first term. This time, they are far less active, although Kushner, formerly Trump's senior adviser who focused on the Middle East, told Reuters that he is briefing real estate investor Steve Witkoff on his new job as special envoy to the region. "I have been working with Witkoff to get him up to speed on Trump's past efforts," Kushner said through a spokesperson. A half-dozen sources close to Kushner said they expect him to be involved in Middle Eastern policy in an unofficial capacity, with the goal of normalizing relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia under an expansion of the 2020 Abraham Accords. Kushner helped broker the accords, a series of normalization agreements between Israel and Arab nations. Kushner, Ivanka and sibling Eric Trump, who runs the Trump Organization business, do not plan to join the new administration, according to their representatives as well as sources. One source close to the transition said Trump does not appear to need his family for advice as much as in the past because of aides like Susie Wiles, who helped to run the most disciplined of his election campaigns to date. Trump has named Wiles as his chief of staff, a powerful position in Washington. "Stuff is really buttoned down," the source said of Trump's current team. "He may not need the family this time like he used to."
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