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Bergdahl's defense team filed a last - minute motion on Oct. 23 to completely dismiss the case against him, citing past statements in which Trump had referred to the sergeant as «a no - good traitor who should have been executed» during his presidential campaign.

Trump, who invested little in formulating specific policy proposals during the presidential campaign, left his team scrambling after he won the election to prepare to implement on his campaign promises.

While she has been on the Republican side of politics throughout her career, she publicly distanced herself from Donald Trump during his presidential election bid and supported Hillary Clinton.

Trump had targeted both the tech industry and Wall Street during his presidential campaign, but once elected, he tapped former investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity investors to join his administration — most notably Goldman Sachs's long - time chief operating officer Gary Cohn, who will now head the National Economics Council.

Trump pledged during his presidential campaign to withdraw the U.S. from the pact immediately after taking office, but had wavered on the issue since winning the election.

(That controversy, it should be noted, has drawn attention — yet again — to the allegations Trump's father faced during his presidential campaign.)

The comments echoed Trump's rhetoric during his presidential campaign.

Fallon, whose show is known for its off - the - wall celebrity games, may have taken a big hit with his softball interview with Trump during the presidential campaign.

And during the presidential campaign, Boeing - affiliated individuals and PACs contributed largely to then - Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, during the 2016 campaign season, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Donald Trump has been a boon to markets and companies that opposed the businessman during his presidential run.

Aside from the fact that Carrier's plans were made during the presidential campaign and its parent company is vulnerable to political pressures, what exactly makes Carrier worthy of being treated differently from the other multinational firms that employ 23 million Americans?

That view was on display during the presidential campaign when Trump railed against globalization and what he described as unfair trade deals negotiated by previous administrations.

On a panel at Davos on Wednesday, Cargill chairman and CEO David MacLennan said that the Trump administration's decision to exit the Trans - Pacific Partnership was «not good» for his business and expressed wariness about Trump's threats during the presidential campaign to rip up agreements like NAFTA.

Polling «is not dead,» says Matt Oczkowski of Cambridge Analytica, the analytics team that worked with Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee during the presidential race.

Should the U.S. withdraw from the WTO, as Trump threatened to do during the presidential campaign, there would be no limit on the level of tariffs other countries could impose on American products.

But the officials caution that rhetoric about a Muslim registry and ban during the presidential campaign also seems to have emboldened federal agents to act more forcefully.

«The president - elect gets to choose whomever he wants to choose for his Cabinet,» said Martinez, who openly clashed with Trump during the presidential campaign.

Had it not been for Black Lives Matter, neither Clinton nor Bernie Sanders would have addressed the need for criminal - justice reform during the presidential primaries.

He also addressed the issue of the «unmasking» of US persons caught up in surveillance of monitored foreign agents — the process by which it was revealed that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had been speaking with Russia's ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition period.

That eclipses the $ 167,401 that Donald Trump has spent on his private security detail during his presidential election bid so far, according to campaign finance disclosures.

In just a few months, we have learned that Flynn lied to Mike Pence, Vice President - elect, about obtaining a security clearance for Flynn's son during the presidential transition; that during the same period, as President Obama was imposing sanctions on Russia for election meddling, Flynn communicated with the Russian ambassador about those sanctions, hinting that President Trump would take a softer line, and then lied to Pence about it (and stood by while Pence publicly repeated that lie); that Flynn was not truthful when questioned by the FBI about the same topic; and that Flynn spoke at a gala for RT, the Kremlin - backed propaganda network and received payments from RT, but dissembled about the source of the payments and seems to have failed to follow U.S. regulations about reporting them.

Last year during the presidential election, The Wall Street Journal reported on Paul's financial disclosure.

In the olden days, voters during presidential races would get into heated arguments over such amusingly quaint topics as tax policy, health care, and the future of Social Security.

Ken Bone (C), a power plant employee from Belleville, Illinois, waits in the audience to ask a question about energy policy and jobs during the presidential debate between Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016.

A similar phenomenon occurred during the presidential campaign, when the Mexican peso swooned as Trump gained strength in the polls and other stocks fluctuated depending on which candidate was pulling ahead.

The Times said that a search warrant executed on Cohen's property on Monday also was seeking evidence about whether he tried to suppress damaging information about Trump during the presidential campaign.

The charity watchdog's view stands in contrast to the way the foundation was characterized during the presidential campaign, but it's consistent with the views of some who have been close to the Clintons over the years and have observed how the foundation operates.

Trump drew upon such rhetoric during his presidential campaign.

Trump frequently villainized Garcia Zarate and cited Steinle's death during his presidential campaign, using the case to bolster his argument for a border wall and aid his crusade against «sanctuary cities.»

During the presidential election, «South Park» certainly turned to Trump for some scathing plotlines.

During the presidential campaign, Trump called for allowing Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies, something the law currently prohibits.

President Donald Trump repeatedly referenced the threat of drugs and violence brought to the US by Mexican cartels during his presidential campaign.

During his presidential campaign, François Hollande famously proclaimed his disdain for the rich.

In July 2016, during the presidential campaign, when Comey publicly announced that Hillary Clinton should not be prosecuted for her email peccadilloes — but strongly criticized her behavior in setting up a private email server while in her role as US secretary of state — Trump did not complain that Department of Justice (DOJ) norms were being violated.

The unverified report, which was commissioned by Fusion GPS, was published during the presidential campaign.

Valeant Pharmaceuticals, which dramatically raised the price of two lifesaving heart drugs, caught the ire of Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign.

Flynn resigned as national security adviser on Monday night after just 24 days on the job, the shortest tenure anyone has ever served in the role, amid revelations that he discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition period, and may be susceptible to foreign blackmail.

You've heard the promises over and over again during the Presidential campaign about the need to increase wages and incomes for the working middle class.

Fears of seeming «political» during a presidential election year, sluggish growth in the Eurozone and a slowdown of the Chinese economic juggernaut will also keep Janet Yellen and the rest of the Federal Open Markets Committee from pulling the trigger more often; their vacillation will be one of the year's longest - running (and least loved) dramas.

Trump often criticized Yellen during the presidential race, telling Fortune during the campaign that «I would be more inclined to put other people» in her position.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump looks on during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York.

Considering the massive ratings networks saw during the presidential primary debates and the intense media buzz around this year's wild election, some experts are predicting that Monday's event could pull in more than 100 million total viewers.

The letter ended with a request for «all documents and communications referring or relating» to Flynn's contacts with foreign persons during the presidential campaign, the transition period, and his tenure as national security adviser, and after he resigned in February.

I've been through about eight or 10 plant closures, and this was complete shock,» said Jones, who didn't support Trump during the presidential race and would still not call himself a Trump supporter.

During the presidential campaign, hackers cracked open all of the Democrats» secrets and splayed them out for everyone to see, while Hillary Clinton was raked over the coals for using an insecure server for her own personal email.

Mr. Kushner, 35, the husband of Mr. Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka, and an influential adviser to his father - in - law during the presidential campaign, had been planning to return to his private businesses after Election Day.

Although China was heavily criticized by candidate Trump during the presidential campaign, discussions with Beijing over the Korean peninsula in particular have so far been the main focus of the administration.

No doubt it will take time to repair the deep mistrust and reservations many Europeans feel about Trump himself, his controversial declarations during the presidential campaign, and his erratic behavior since the election.

Having donated $ 11m to the main pro-Cruz Super Pac, Keep the Promise I, Mercer is Cruz's top financier — and the largest individual donor to Super Pacs or outside groups during the presidential election cycle thus far, according to data compiled by the political transparency website Open Secrets.

In that time, he pursued business deals in the former Soviet Union and even tried to get a Trump Tower Moscow built during the presidential campaign.