See why man is happy and thank God he was sentenced

H-metro updated,Tafadzwa Durawo was arrested at the entrance of the show after stealing a cell phone belonging to Tawanda Jowah who was intending to enter into the show’s venue.

Durawo was arrested and taken to police cells before the violence erupted. “I would like to thank God for this arrest. I consider myself a lucky person amongst the thousands that attended the show.

“I heard that people died at that show and I am happy that I was arrested before the violence. I could have lost my life during that show as well. “But I did not steal the cell phone in question,” he said when the State led by Nyikadzino Machingura was cross examining him.

But his statement could not spare him conviction after magistrate Victoria Mashamba found him guilty of stealing Tawanda’s cell phone. Prosecutor Machingura said that on November 8 at around 2345hrs Tawanda and Tafadzwa were at the City Sport Centre with the former intending to enter into the show.

But Tafadzwa had a different mission-stealing from unsuspecting dancehall music lovers.

The court heard that there was a moment when people started shoving and pushing each other ending up with Tafadzwa stealing Tawanda’s ZTE cell phone worth US$25.

He was arrested and taken to court where he was convicted of theft.

Tafadzwa will know his fate today when magistrate Mashamba is expected to sentence him.

Twin bombing in Afghanistan capital kills 38

Accorfing to Foxnews,Two large bombings near government offices in Afghanistan's capital -- not far from the gates of the American University of Afghanistan -- killed at least 38 people Tuesday, including civilians and military personnel, officials said.

"We've seen the reports of the explosions in Kabul this afternoon and we're monitoring the situation closely. We condemn any attack that seeks to undermine the Afghanistan government and undermine the government's efforts to create a peaceful, stable, secure Afghanistan," Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland, a U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, told Fox News.

I am planning mayoral run Tito jackson

The 41-year-old Roxbury councilor, who will announce his mayoral candidacy at 2 p.m. at Dudley Square’s Haley House, is setting the stage for an uphill but competitive contest later this year. Although the field of candidates is not set, Jackson is hoping to become the first viable African-American candidate on the November mayoral ballot in more than three decades — since the candidacy of former state representative Mel King.

CNN replies Trump concerning fake news issue

According to Cnn this morning.CNN's decision to publish carefully sourced reporting about the operations of our government is vastly different than Buzzfeed's decision to publish unsubstantiated memos. The Trump team knows this. They are using Buzzfeed's decision to deflect from CNN's reporting, which has been matched by the other major news organizations.

We are fully confident in our reporting. It represents the core of what the First Amendment protects, informing the people of the inner workings of their government; in this case, briefing materials prepared for President Obama and President-elect Trump last week.

We made it clear that we were not publishing any of the details of the 35-page document because we have not corroborated the report's allegations. Given that members of the Trump transition team have so vocally criticized our reporting, we encourage them to identify, specifically, what they believe to be inaccurate.

You missed thrice if you havent heard Trump Brief

Donald Trump held his first press conference as president-elect on Wednesday. Given that he hadn’t held such an event since late-July, there was a lot of ground to cover.

Speaking to an estimated 250 reporters inside Trump Tower at the mid-morning event, Trump took questions on a wide array of subjects, including recent intelligence reports regarding Russia, the future of his business empire, and repealing the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare.”

Here are the top highlights for those who missed it:

1. ‘I think it was Russia’

For the first time Wednesday, Trump said he believed Russia was behind the alleged hacking campaign to influence the outcome the the 2016 election. Trump’s concession came after he consistently cast doubt on intelligence reports, which found the Russian government acted to swing the campaign in his favor.“As far as hacking, I think it was Russia,” Trump said Wednesday, adding that he has concerns about hacks from a multiple foreign actors, including China.”We have much hacking going.”

Trump blamed the Democratic National Committee for being “totally open” to the hack and gave credit to the Republican National Committee for not falling victim to the same fate.

Trump also dismissed recent reportsthat Russian operatives had obtained potentially compromising information on him and called the reporting by CNN and BuzzFeed, the outlets that broke news on the unsubstantiated claims Tuesday, “a disgrace.” Trump’s criticism led toa heated exchange during the press conference with CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

Trump said he is “extremely careful” when traveling abroad—including when he went to the 2013 Miss Universe contest in suburbs of Moscow—about protecting potentially composing information.

“In your hotel rooms and no matter where you go, you’re going to probably have cameras,” he said.

“I’m also very much of a germaphobe, by the way. Believe me,” he later added, appearing to allude to the unsubstantiated claims in the documents published by BuzzFeed.

2. Trump is not divesting from his business interests

In an effort to address potential conflicts of interest due to his vast real estate empire, Trump said he was transferring day-to-day management of the company to his two adult sons. However, he said he would not be selling or divesting himself from the business, since federal conflict of interest laws do not apply to the president they way the do for other government officials.Midway through the press conference, Trump yielded the podium to his lawyer Sheri Dillon, who said his assets will be placed in a trust. In keeping with the trust, Dillon said Trump had terminated 30 pending deals, at a loss of “millions” for the family. She also said no new foreign deals would be made during the duration of Trump’s presidency. New domestic deals would still be allowed, but Trump will not be allowed direct involvement, Dillon said.

However, she also said Trump could not create a completely “blind trust” (as is customary for presidents) due to the name recognition of his brand.

“President Trump can’t un-know he owns Trump Tower,” she said.

Dillon also said that selling his businesses could create more conflicts of interest.

“The Trump brand is key to to the value of the Trump Organization’s assets,” she said. “If President-elect Trump sold his brand, he would be entitled to royalties for the use of it, and this would result in the trust retaining an interest in the brand without the ability to ensure that it does not exploit the office of the presidency.”

Dillon called the current trust deal a “suitable alternative.”

However, government ethics experts, including Norm Eisen andZephyr Teachout, said following the press conference that the arrangement does not disentangle Trump from his business interests and would be unconstitutional.

Earlier in the press conference, when asked if he would release his tax returns in order to shed light on his extent of his business dealings, Trump declined.“The only one who cares about my tex returns are the reporters,” Trump said, despite polls indicating 60 percent of the American publicthink he has a “responsibility” to release the returns.

“I won,” he said. “I became president. I don’t think they care at all.”

3. Repeal and replace Obamacare ‘essentially simultaneously’

Amid bipartisan concerns over repealing Obamacare without an immediate replacement—potentially dropping 20 million people from their current healthcare plans—Trump said he would like to repeal and replace the law “essentially simultaneously.”

“It will be various segments, you understand, but it will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but most likely the same day,” Trump said. “Could be the same hour. It will be repeal and replace—very complicated stuff.”

He did not immediately outline his plan to replace Obamacare, which he called “a complete and total disaster,” but said his administration would be submitting legislation to Congress.

Trump said Obamacare is currently the Democrats’ problem and that he is doing them a “tremendous service” by repealing it.

In a recent interview with Vox, President Barack Obama, for whom the landmark healthcare act was eponymously nicknamed, said the problems with Obamacare—higher than expected premiums, which Trump referred to Wednesday,among other things—was because the law didn’t go far enough. Obama suggested increased subsidies and a public option.

The Trump administration and Congressional Republicans, however, are unlikely to take that route.-Boston news

14 witness for Lagos EX-HOS,and husband justice Ademola.

All from punch,The Federal Government has added some prosecution witnesses against the couple.With Wednesday’s amendment, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Joe Agi, whom the prosecution accused of giving N30m and a BMW car worth N8.5m to Justice Ademola as gratification, has been joined as a defendant.

It also increased the number of counts from nine to 16.

The three defendants pleaded not guilty to all the 16 counts when read to them before Justice Jude Okeke of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Maitama, Abuja, on Wednesday.

The charges were only read to the defendants after an application by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Segun Jegede, for leave to amend the old charges was granted by Justice Okeke.

In the fresh list of witnesses, accompanying the amended charges, the prosecution named 14 witnesses to be called against the three defendants.

The Executive Secretary of the National Judicial Council and the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court are among the 14 proposed prosecution witnesses

The specific names of the occupants of both the offices of the Executive Secretary of the NJC and the Chief Registrar of the Federal High Court were not given.

Also listed as one of the prosecution witnesses is a former Director, Pension Accounts Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Sani Teidi, who stood trial before Justice Ademola at the Federal High Court, Abuja in 2013.

The others include Teidi’s wife, Fatimah, and one of the ex-director’s associates, one Prince Faboro.

The rest are operatives of the Department of State Services and five officials of Guaranty Trust Bank and Zenith Bank Plc.

The prosecution proposed in the document attached to the amended charges that Teidi, his wife and Faboro would give evidence in support of the charges on how Justice Ademola allegedly attempted to obtain N25m gratification from him (Teidi) while being prosecuted before the judge in 2013.

He had raised similar allegation against Justice Ademola in a petition earlier written by his wife to the NJC.

Teidi’s trial, which has to do with his alleged involvement in pension scam, has since been transferred to another judge of the Federal High Court, Abuja.

Teidi’s allegation to the effect that Justice Ademola attempted to obtain N25m as gratification from him constitutes a count among the 16 preferred against the defendants.

One of the major fresh counts added to the old set of charges is that Justice Ademola allegedly held the sums of N54m, $171,779, €4,400 £80 and R1,010 “being gratification received in the exercise of your official functions as a judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria.”

The sums of money were allegedly found in the judge’s house during the raid by the operatives of the DSS on October 7, 2016.

The prosecution accused the judge of “holding” the sums of money as “gratification contrary to Section 24 of the Corrupt Practices and other related offences Act 2000 and punishable under the same section of the Act.”

Justice Ademola and his wife were initially arraigned on December 13, 2016, on nine counts.

They were, shortly after pleading not guilty to the charges, granted bail worth N100m in self-recognisance.

The two, along with Agi, again pleaded not guilty to all the amended 16 counts when read to them on Wednesday.

The court on Wednesday, thereafter, fixed January 16 (Monday) for the commencement of trial.

Before the adjournment and following an application by their lawyer, Chief Solomon Akuna (SAN), Justice Okeke allowed Justice Ademola and his wife to continue to enjoy the N100m bail earlier granted them after they were initially arraigned on December 13, 2015.

The judge also granted the bail application argued on Wednesday by Agi’s lawyer, Mr. Jeph Njikonye.

He granted bail to Agi in the sum of N50m, which is to be guaranteed by his self-recognisance.

In addition, the judge also ordered Agi to deposit his passport and other travelling documents with the Assistant Chief Registrar of the court.

The prosecuting counsel, Jegede, did not oppose both applications by the defence lawyers but urged Justice Okeke to order Agi to deposit his passport with the court as a way of ensuring that the defendant attends his trial.

As in the old set of charges, Justice Ademola and his wife were accused in the fresh counts of conspiracy of receiving gratification and receiving gratification of N30m from Joe Agi and Associates, between March 11 and March 26, 2015.

EEWO!!A Woman Arrested for beating Husband BlueBlack

H-metro reported a woman was arrested for assaulting her husband because he had gone to a party, a court heard. She considered him a ‘party animal’, so it seems.

Gilbert Maumbaose told the court that he was brutally assaulted by his wife Abigail Ndunduma because he had gone to a friend’s party without her consent.

Gilbert bared it all at the Harare civil court where he was seeking a protection order against Abigail. “I nolonger want to stay with this woman because she is very violent.

“I got her arrested recently after she assaulted me using and an iron bar and an empty bottle because I had attended a party of one of my friends,” said Gilbert.

He went on to tell the court that Abigail was also harassing his children he sired with his former wife. “I was previously married to another woman but my children are being abused by this woman.

“She locks them outside and sometimes my kids sleep without eating because she would hide the groceries and switch off the lights,” he said. Responding to the claims, Abigail confirmed that she was arrested for beating up Gilbert.

However, she said that Gilbert was the first to attack her. “It is true that I was arrested for beating up my husband but I never meant to do that but he was the one who provoked me by throwing a bottle at me,” said Abigail.

Magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti, who presided over the case, granted the protection order which orders Abigail to keep her peace towards Gilbert.

We won't bankrupt to keep Messi

Punch updated Bercelona won’t put their financial future at risk in negotiating a new contract for Lionel Messi, the club warned on Wednesday, in comments that will encourage his many suitors across Europe, AFP reports.

Messi and club captain Andres Iniesta are entering the final 18 months of their current deals at the Camp Nou meaning they would be free to talk to other clubs in a year’s time if they don’t extend their contracts in 2017.

Despite posting a record turnover of 679m  euros  last season, a series of expensive new contracts for the likes of Neymar and Luis Suarez mean Barcelona are close to overstepping the 70 percent limit of turnover spent on salaries imposed by UEFA’s financial fair-play laws.

“We have to be very strict with the budgets, we can’t go crazy,” said Barcelona CEO Oscar Grau, confirming that the Catalan giants have no plans to strengthen the squad in the January transfer window.

“We need to comply with the ratios of debt and the percentage of salaries in the budget.”

Five-time World Player of the Year Messi, 29, and Iniesta, 32, have been at the club since they were teenagers and have been the cornerstones of the most glorious period in Barcelona’s history, each winning eight Spanish league titles and four Champions Leagues.

“We want the best player in history to remain here at Barcelona and we want to renew the players that have been brought through here. They are the best and they should retire at home,” added Grau.

“We have to analyse it. We are working with common sense and discretion. We want Messi to stay and we will find the way, I am sure. I want to calm all Barcelona members.”

Any new deal for Messi is likely to see him usurp Cristiano Ronaldo, who recently extended his Real Madrid deal to 2021.

Glory:Dozen of Bokoharam member willingly surrendered

VoA reported Dozens of Boko Haram fighters have given themselves up to authorities in southern Niger, the interior minister said, days after the Islamist group suffered key losses over the border in Nigeria.

"Thirty-one young people from Diffa, who were enrolled a few years ago in Boko Haram, decided to surrender," minister Mohamed Bazoum wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, above pictures of him touring the area near Nigeria's northeast border.

The fighters arrived in the remote desert town of Diffa in groups and were being held by local authorities.

"I learned that the first who surrendered were not arrested, and I surrendered," a former Boko Haram combatant told national television.

"We expect a pardon from the government so that we can participate in the development of the country and help us get rid of the trauma.

In June, tens of thousands of people fled Diffa as Boko Haram swept the region. Five Niger soldiers were killed by the militants near Diffa in September.

It was not clear what will become of the ex-Boko Haram fighters, but authorities said there was the possibility of reintegrating them back into society. A security source said a meeting was planned for Wednesday in Diffa to discuss "the conditions of surrender", without providing further details.

Boko Haram has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than 2 million during a seven-year insurgency aimed at creating an Islamic state in Nigeria. In recent years its attacks have spilled into neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad.

Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters surrendered in Chad in October and November as the group ceded territory.

The group controlled an area about the size of Belgium in early 2015 but has since been pushed back by international forces including troops from Niger. Nigeria's army captured its last enclave in the vast Sambisa forest on Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday.

Forbes wrote why Trump will remain Billionaire,despite handling over to son

  by Forbes

Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth to be $3.7 billion, making him the 485th-richest person in the world according to our real time billionaire ranks. In October, he appeared at number 156 on The Forbes 400 ranking of the wealthiest Americans -- his 29th time on the list.

He and his father, Fred Trump, made the first-ever Forbes 400 in 1982 with a shared fortune of $200 million. Since then Trump has been uniquely fixated on his net worth estimate and has consistently lobbied for a higher spot on Forbes’ rankings. "I'm worth much more than you have me down [for],” Trump told Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane in an interview for a September 2015 cover story. “I don't look good, to be honest. I mean, I look better if I'm worth $10 billion than if I'm worth $4 billion."

Wednesday’s announcement appears to ensure that Trump will remain among the billionaire ranks. Forbes estimates that Trump holds nearly $3.3 billion in real estate, including $300 million worth of golf courses in the U.S., Scotland and Ireland; $230 million in cash and liquid assets; $35 million worth of planes and helicopters; and businesses worth $137 million that manage hotels not owned by Trump and license the Trump name to buildings and products like ties, coffee and water.

When asked whether the announcement will affect Trump's place on Forbes' rankings, Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks replied, "You rarely rank Mr. Trump and his incredible assets properly."

Out of Trump speech,See only 2 things people hold as take home

Vox-Before Trump became a major political figure, I would have thought you couldn’t practice business this way because nobody would work for you. But Trump just moves on to newer places. There’s no Trump Hotel in New York, but he does have a brand new one here in DC, and DC-area contractors are learning what contractors in Atlantic City learned long ago — Trump doesn’t pay up. He defaults on his debts, rips off his shareholders, and defrauds the students at his fake university.

Trump was able to keep making more and more money and becoming more and more famous acting this way, and so he did. By the same token, all his political norm breaking — from his bizarre tweets to refusing to release his tax returns to suggesting Ted Cruz’s father was involved in JFK’s assassination — didn’t derail, and may at times have helped, his election. He’s going to do what he’s going to do, and the reality is he’s right: He won.

But what comes next, in ways Trump may not realize, is different. Lots of presidents have won elections. What they’ve generally found is that the United States is not a plebiscitary dictatorship. The presidency is a powerful office, but its powers are shared with Congress, and to a considerable extent, you can only do what Congress lets you get away with.

The GOP is giving Trump a pass on conflicts of interest

The reason Trump doesn’t need to release his tax returns, or resolve the financial conflicts of interest inherent in his ownership of the Trump Organization, or explain his thinking about Russia clearly is that Republicans haven’t made him.

Congressional Republicans know how to play hardball if they want to.

• It would have been trivially easy for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to refuse to schedule confirmation hearings with Rex Tillerson until its members got to have a chat with the president-elect about Russia.
• House Government Affairs Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz has been fanatical about Hillary Clinton email investigations but simply chooses not to hold hearings on Trump’s conflicts of interest.
• Congress could amend the statute governing executive branch conflicts of interest to extend coverage to the president.

Nothing along these lines has happened for two reasons. First, congressional Republicans seem to have uniformly reached the conclusion that the political costs of fighting with Trump exceed the political risk that they will end up being dragged down by his corruption when scandal erupts. Second, congressional Republicans seem to have universally reached the moral judgment that preventing the wholesale corruption of the federal government isn’t particularly important in the grand scheme of things.

Winning is easy; governing is harder

What’s less clear is what’s going to happen when Trump finds himself getting into territory that congressional Republicans do care about.

At another point during the press conference, Trump said the federal government should use its purchasing power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. He said this as if he were the first person in history to think of it, but there is in fact a controversy over this that’s been running in Washington for decades. It reached a head back in 2003, when George W. Bush and congressional Republicans rather controversially stole a Democratic proposal to add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare but then included a legal bar on bulk price negotiations. The resulting legislation passed over Democratic objections, and liberal Democrats have been promising for years to overturn it.

Barack Obama campaigned on this idea in 2008, only to abandon it as part of a bargain to get the pharmaceutical industry to support the Affordable Care Act, only to reembrace it in his second term (and then seem to back away from it in a lame-duck Vox interview, but that’s another story).

All of which is to say that if Trump is serious about doing this, he will probably find plenty of Democratic votes for it. But this is a popular idea that Republicans have been blocking for years. They are blocking it because they think it would be a bad idea (reduced incentives for pharmaceutical research), and they are blocking it because the pharmaceutical industry has a lot of money and clout.

If Trump is satisfied by just musing aloud about this while not actually changing anything, Paul Ryan will be happy to ignore him.

But if he actually wants to do it, he’s going to have a big fight on his hands. And while to an extent his favored tactic of roasting congressional Republicans with his tweets could work as pushback, they have some powerful weapons in their hands. After all, the choice to turn a blind eye to Trump’s ethical lapses is a choice that, in practice, the GOP has to reaffirm anew every single week. If Trump asks for things Republicans don’t want to do, they won’t happen. If Trump punches his party hard to try to make them do those things, they can punch back. Governing is hard.

For now, though, congressional Republicans seem convinced that Trump will stick to tax cuts and deregulation as the core of his agenda — with protectionist tweets serving more as a theatrical sideshow than as the dawn of a new heterodox approach to policymaking. As long as that’s the case, they’re willing to hold up their end of the bargain. But that’s the real reason Trump doesn’t need to disclose anything — it’s not that he won; it’s that his allies in Congress think letting him get away with it is the best way for them to get their way on policy.

Dylan roof sentenced to death

Remorse

Daily Beast—Dylann Roof will be executed for shooting dead nine worshipers during a Bible study in a historically black church, making him the first person sentenced to death for federal hate crimes.

A 12-person jury returned the sentence Tuesday at the Charleston Federal Courthouse after deliberating for three hours. The punishment follows Roof’s conviction in December on 33 charges related to the massacre at Emanuel A.M.E. Church on June 17, 2015.

Roof listened to the sentence without much expression, occasionally putting on a closed-lip smile that looked like a nervous reaction. 

Sean McDermott to be hired as Buffalo Bills head coach

 PARK, N.Y. (AP) - A person with direct knowledge of the decision tells The Associated Press the Buffalo Bills have reached an agreement to hire Sean McDermott to be their next head coach.

According to BI.The person spoke to The AP on the condition of anonymity because the Bills have not announced the decision.

The deal was reached Wednesday, shortly after the Bills interviewed McDermott for a second time in eight days. The 42-year-old has no previous head-coaching experience and spent past six seasons working as the Carolina Panthers defensive coordinator.

McDermott replaces Rex Ryan, who was fired two weeks ago. He becomes the team's ninth head coach since 1999, when Buffalo last made the playoffs under Wade Phillips. The Bills went 7-9 this past season, extending the NFL's longest active playoff drought to 17 years.

Ghana:Akuffo Ado Appointed investment Banker as Finance Minister

Bloomberg-News,Ghana appointed investment banker Ken Ofori-Atta as finance minister as the new government seeks to reignite growth in a nation facing stubbornly high inflation and low prices for its exports.

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday announced the appointment of the 57-year-old Ofori-Atta, who was executive chairman of the Accra-based investment bank Databank Financial Services Ltd. for 12 years until 2012 and served as director of fundraising during the New Patriotic Party’s campaign for last month’s elections.“One of his main strengths will be the ability to effectively communicate with the financial sector that a change of government policy has occurred and instill confidence that the government can turn around the fiscal metrics,Ghana is trying to lower borrowing costs as drops in prices for its main commodity exports, cocoa and oil, strain government revenue and weigh on growth. The economy probably expanded at the slowest rate in more than two decades last year, according to the International Monetary Fund. Akufo-Addo says public debt, which is almost 70 percent of gross domestic product, will be a key challenge facing his incoming administration.

Inflationary Pressure

Former Finance Minister Yaw Osafo-Marfo will be part of the government’s economic team, according to the president, who has pledged to create jobs and boost the private sector. Inflation has been outside the central bank’s target band of 6 percent to 10 percent for almost four years, with consumer prices rising 15.4 percent in December.

Speaking briefly to reporters after his appointment was announced, Ofori-Atta, who has an MBA from Yale University, said he’s unlikely to raise utility prices further after a sharp increase in tariffs following months of recurring 24-hour power outages.

“Many will be encouraged by a slightly younger finance minister with extensive business experience when it comes to Ghana’s chances to deliver the kind of endogenous growth which has been sought but hard to deliver,” Bohlund said. The previous finance minister, Seth Terkper, is 59.

See all simple Questions Trump Fails to answer.

(Some reporters who pursued Trump after the news conference reported that he provided a one-word response as he entered a Trump Tower elevator: "No.")

According to USA today.unanswered question, as phrased by a reporter: "Did the heads of the intelligence agencies provide you with the two-page summary of these unsubstantiated allegations?Trump neither confirmed nor denied in a lengthy answer, but he did suggest they did not: "I saw the information; I read the information outside of that meeting. It's all fake news. It's phony stuff. It didn't happen. And it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know, because you reported it and so did many of the other people."

Also: "I'm not allowed to talk about what went on in a (classified) meeting."

The president-elect also declined several opportunities to say whether he would reduce or end sanctions on Russia, including those President Obama imposed last month over the hacking episode.

Trump also demurred, somewhat, when asked whether he accepted the intelligence community's findings that Russia engineered the hackings of Democrats close to Clinton.

• Details of a capital repatriation plan and proposed corporate tax cuts. Trump did say, "there will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder."

One thing Trump flatly refused to answer: A question from CNN, the news organization that did the story on Russian intelligence gathering on Trump.

Pharma bro in Washington D.C for President elect,Donald Trump inauguration

According to Newyork post,Notorious pharma bro Martin Shkreli is headed to Washington, DC for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration – even if it is sans aplus-one.

A Brooklyn judge on Wednesday OK’d Shkreli’s travel to the nation’s capitol between Jan. 17 and 21 to attend a “social event,” according to new court filings.

Shkreli was booted off Twitter earlier this week after allegedly harassing Teen Vogue reporter Lauren Duca and asking her to accompany him to the inauguration.

The notorious 33-year-old price gouger was arrested in 2015 on securities fraud charges and, after getting sprung on $5 million bail, now has to abide by certain conditions of his release.

They include asking for the court’s permission to travel outside of the immediate New York City area.

Federal Judge Kiyo Matsumoto also approved Shkreli’s travel to attend two “speaking engagements” – one at the University of California, Davis in Los Angeles from Jan. 13 to 15, and another in Princeton New Jersey from Feb. 11 to 12