International business entanglements, these concerns are getting bigger not smaller with each passing day in the news as we get closer to him being sworn in. Because this stuff keeps coming up, when it comes up, the more you look at it, the worse it is. For example, we now know that the daughter of the President Elect, she apparently got a Big Business Deal Greenlighted by a governmentcontrolled bank in japan right after that bizarre and otherwise inexplicable spectacle where the President Elect invited his daughter to sit in on his inperson meeting with the japanese Prime Minister. If that deal in fact only got greenlit because of the new political position of the trump family, well, then that action by that governmentcontrolled bank in japan, thats pretty clearly a Foreign Governments gift to the president s family. Thats just one. With each passing day theres another one of these now. They are getting bigger and worse over time. Those things by trumps business . If the Family Busine
december 5th with an op-ped by a texas elector planning to defect from donald trump. the next day the paper explored how would the electoral college dump donald trump and published a letter to the editor entitled a plea to the electors: vote your conscience. explained why gop electoral college members can vote against trump. i think a lot of this is the press. we love a narrative of tension, and the idea that somehow this could get thrown open at the last minute, while very titillating, and a great story, is just not going to happen. reporter: when it was all over with more faithless electors elect ers deserting hillary clinton, the paper said it settles donald trump s victory but little else. an abuse of the american vote. reporter: it was the same with green party nominee jill stein whose candidacy garnered all of 37 seconds on the broadcast network eegs evening shows. the clock is ticking. reporter: but whose longshot recall effort drew 12 times as
lead, reminding electors that by the latest tally, trump lost the popular vote by around 3 million, yet still wins the white house by the electoral vote. no matter what happens today, this conversation we re having about the electoral college is important and it s going to continue. texas now puts president trump over the top. reporter: in the end, texas electors put donald trump over 270. supren was joined by one other faithless elector dumping trump. this is the way the process should be, says fellow texas elector, matt stringer. you re supposed to be a steward of the people s vote. reporter: do you think christopher supren is doing the right thing? no, i don t believe so. i disagree with him going faithless. donald trump won an overwhelming number of the state s electors to be president. we are a republic. reporter: was this all worth it? absolutely. i cast a ballot based on my principles and values. you never go wrong when you re doing that. again, christopher sup
harrisburg braved freezing temperatures and tall odds in their quest to deprive president-elect trump of the votes he needed. i m here today because i feel like it s last chance we have to really save this country. reporter: inside, amid jeer, pennsylvania s 20 electors cast their ballots for the republican who last month flipped their usually blue state to red. the vote for president of the united states was 20 votes for donald trump and the vote for vice-president, 20 votes for pence. reporter: so it was around the country with small protests in each of the 50 capitals doing little to slow the trump juggernaut. the first ten states he won that participated in the electoral college balloting, none witnessed any defections. the first so-called faithless elector popped up in maine, to switch his vote to bernie sanders. one texas elector said he would
december 5th with an op-ped by a texas elector planning to defect from donald trump. the next day the paper explored how would the electoral college dump donald trump and published a letter to the editor entitled a plea to the electors: vote your conscience. explained why gop electoral college members can vote against trump. i think a lot of this is the press. we love a narrative of tension, and the idea that somehow this could get thrown open at the last minute, while very titillating, and a great story, is just not going to happen. reporter: when it was all over with more faithless electors elect ers deserting hillary clinton, the paper said it settles donald trump s victory but little else. an abuse of the american vote. reporter: it was the same with green party nominee jill stein whose candidacy garnered all of 37 seconds on the broadcast network eegs evening shows. the clock is ticking. reporter: but whose longshot recall effort drew 12 times as