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It seems Trump is on the move, so no taxpayers money for extra policing. It should be an advanced notice for the NA thugs. It's a plus for the Paks for the engagement with the USA is already at the minimal. It'll be all about the bottom line....
 
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@ghazi52 bhai, Did you vote?

Yes I did.

Triumphant Donald Trump elected US President, Clinton concedes

Donald Trump has stunned America and the world, riding a wave of populist resentment to defeat Hillary Clinton in the race to become the 45th president of the United States.

The Republican mogul defeated his Democratic rival, plunging global markets into turmoil and casting the long-standing global political order, which hinges on Washington's leadership, into doubt.

Trump secured at least 290 electoral votes, securing more than the 270 he needed to succeed Barack Obama.

His Democratic rival Hillary Clinton had 218 electoral votes, a crushing defeat for the former secretary of state.

"Hillary Clinton fought very hard... We owe her a major debt of gratitude to our country," Trump told a crowd of jubilant supporters in the early hours of Wednesday in New York.

The businessman turned TV star turned-politico ─ who has never before held elected office ─ will become commander-in-chief of the world's sole true superpower on January 20.

'A president for all Americans'

"It’s been what they call an historic campaign," Trump said, addressing a cheering crowd at his victory party. "But to be really historic, you have to do a great job. And I promise you that we will not let you down."

"I will be a president for all Americans," the president-elect pledged. "For those who didn't support me... I am reaching out to you for your help so we can unify our great country... Now it is time for America to bind the wounds of division."

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US President-elect Donald Trump greets supporters along with his wife and family during his election night rally. ─ Reuters


"We will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us... Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach. America will no longer settle for anything less than the best."

"While we will always put America’s interests first, we will deal fairly with everyone."

"Ours was not a campaign but rather an incredible and great movement made up of millions of hardworking Americans... While the campaign is over, the work on this movement is only just beginning."

"It's a movement comprised of Americans of all backgrounds religions and races," he said.

Trump took to the stage with his wife, Melania and his youngest son. Concluding his speech, he thanked his wife and his children, Don, Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron. "I love you and I thank you. And especially for putting up with all of those hours. This was tough."

"I love this country. Thank you."

Trump's vice-presidential running mate, Mike Pence who spoke before Trump termed it "a historic night."

"The American people have spoken, and the American people have elected their new champion. America has elected a new president," Pence said.

Oldest US president

Although he has no government experience and in recent years has spent as much time running beauty pageants and starring in reality television as he had building his property empire, Trump at 70 will be the oldest man to ever become president.

Yet, during his improbable rise, Trump has constantly proved the pundits and received political wisdom wrong.

Opposed by the entire senior hierarchy of his own Republican Party, he trounced more than a dozen better-funded and more experienced rivals in the party primary.

But the biggest upset came on Tuesday, as he swept to victory through a series of hard-fought wins in battleground states from Florida to Ohio.

Campaign reveals faultlines

During a bitter two-year campaign that tugged at America's democratic fabric, the bombastic tycoon pledged to deport illegal immigrants, ban Muslims from the country and tear up free trade deals.

His message appears to have been embraced by much of America's white majority, disgruntled by the breath and scope of social change and economic change in the last eight years under their first black president, Barack Obama.

Trump openly courted Russian leader Vladimir Putin, called US support for Nato allies in Europe into question and suggested that South Korea and Japan should develop their own nuclear weapons.

During the race, he was forced to ride out allegations of sexual assault and was embarrassed but apparently not shamed to have been caught on tape boasting about groping women.

And, unique in modern US political history, he refused to release his tax returns.

The US election results prompted a global market sell-off, with stocks plunging across Asia and Europe and billions being wiped off the value of investments.

Legacy of ashes

Clinton had been widely assumed to be on course to enter the history books as the first woman to become president in America's 240-year existence.

Americans have repudiated her call for unity amid the United States' wide cultural and racial diversity, opting instead for a leader who insisted the country is broken and that "I alone can fix it."

If early results hold out, Trump's party will have full control of Congress and he will be able to appoint a ninth Supreme Court justice to a vacant seat on the bench, deciding the balance of the body.

So great was the shock that Clinton did not come out to her supporters' poll-watching party to concede defeat, but instead called Trump and sent her campaign chairman to insist in vain the result was too close to call.

"I want every person in this hall to know, and I want every person across the country who supported Hillary to know that your voices and your enthusiasm mean so much to her and to him and to all of us. We are so proud of you. And we are so proud of her," chairman John Podesta told shell-shocked supporters.

"She's done an amazing job, and she is not done yet," he insisted.

Brutal humiliation for Obama

The election result was also a brutal humiliation for the White House incumbent, Obama, who for eight years has repeated the credo that there is no black or white America, only the United States of America.

On the eve of the election, he told tens of thousands of people in Philadelphia that he was betting on the decency of the American people.

"I'm betting that tomorrow, most moms and dads across America won't cast their vote for someone who denigrates their daughters," Obama said.

"I'm betting that tomorrow, true conservatives won't cast their vote for somebody with no regard for the Constitution," he added.

His bet appears to have been flat out wrong, and America's first black president will be succeeded by a candidate who received the endorsement ─ albeit unsought and unacknowledged ─ of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan.

Trump's shock victory is just the latest evidence that globalisation has eroded faith in liberal political leadership.

From Britain's vote to leave the European Union to the rise of far right populists and nationalists in continental Europe, opposition to open trade and social and racial tensions are on the rise.
 
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Surprise and euphoria at Trump headquarters in NY

Euphoric Donald Trump supporters transformed into a sea of “Make America Great Again” hats, shouting “USA” and partying late into the night as the billionaire appeared within reach of victory Wednesday.

“We are so excited,” said Aliza Romanoff, a well-dressed, articulate and educated mother of two from Long Island whose family has known Trump for years, out celebrating with her parents and husband.

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The Republican nominee's official “victory party” in a Manhattan hotel ballroom started slowly ─ initially quietly optimistic ─ but as Trump won state after state, increasingly pumped up and raucous.

The crowd swelled in number, flagging energy levels boosted by alcohol and the avalanche of results that some admitted were far better than they ever imagined with Hillary Clinton the strong favourite.

“It's unbelievable. I didn't know Trump was really going to pull it off,” said Glenn Ruti, a 54-year-old New Yorker who works in telecommunications, albeit with no winner yet declared in the race. “I think he's going to go all the way.”

As Fox News, the TV network of choice for most Trump supporters beamed across the party on giant screens, declared Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Iowa and Wisconsin for Trump, they broke out into whoops and cheers, clapping their hands, fist-pumping and waving placards.

“He's going to win and my life is forever changed,” one supporter yelled into his cell phone, seemingly unable to believe it.

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Bar staff in black tie rushed around collecting empties or bringing out fresh bottles. There were spontaneous chants of “Drain the Swamp.” That is Trump's battle cry for overhauling establishment Washington.

“We're definitely taken aback. We were expecting it to be a very close race,” said Romanoff. “We're overjoyed,” she added as her mother promised a month of partying all the way to the inauguration on January 20.

Ecstatic
Theirs was not the only family in attendance. Other parents brought their children. One woman even cradled a new-born baby in a sling. All agreed one thing, that the country had voted for change and change was coming.

Supporters listed opposition to Obamacare, Trump's promise to create jobs, defeat jihadists and fight corruption as reasons for his shock performance, together with years of struggle after the 2008 financial crash.

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While the crowd was overwhelmingly white American, it was more diverse and smaller than often evident at Trump's campaign rallies.

There were Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and affluent couples alongside core blue-collar workers.

Supporters trashed the American media, which largely predicted a Clinton win, dismissing it as untrustworthy and biased in favour of the Democratic former secretary of state.

Accusations that Trump is racist were lies manufactured by Democrats, supporters said.

“We're feeling ecstatic,” said Jesse Singh, 46, from Baltimore.

“Once it's declared, once he reaches 270 we're going to have a party like we've never seen before,” he promised, before breaking into USA chants with a young white man.

Women in plunging red gowns and delicate cocktail dresses pulled on red campaign trucker hats, turning the venue into a sea of red before a podium dressed in American flags, waiting for Trump to arrive.

It was a party for select supporters from across the country. There were long-time friends and associates, and a noticeable contingent from the Trump Organisation or people working in Trump Tower.

Working-class revolution
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Fifteen-year-old schoolboy Aidan Van Hoek from Bronxville New York may be too young to vote but said he was “loving every minute” as he celebrated with his mother and brother.

“Wild and that's the way it should be!” he said.

It was a party for the so-called “silent majority” whom Trump supporters say felt ignored or misunderstood by the elite, and abandoned by the Obama administration and who distrusted Clinton.

“Fox News actually said it best, everyone knew they were going to vote for him, but were too scared to admit it,” said Van Hoek.

“The polls were wrong,” agreed James Davis, a 46-year-old African American pastor from Ohio wearing a suit and bow-tie.

“I think it's primarily because of the stigma of being a Trump supporter and as a result there's a huge underground that evolved out of nowhere,” he explained.

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“This is a working class revolution in America,” said John Fredericks, a radio host and Virginia state chairman of the Trump campaign.

“The pundits don't understand it, the mainstream media doesn't understand it. They don't talk to real voters,” he said.

“They're simply talking to the same other elite people in their wine and cheese and champagne echo chamber,” he said.
 
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Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment

  • Donald J. Trump addressed supporters in New York early Wednesday after he was elected president in a stunning upset against Hillary Clinton.



    Key StatesElectoral votes Fla.29 Mich.16 N.H.4 N.C.15 Pa.20
    Clinton 48% 47% 48% 47% 48%
    Trump 49% 48% 47% 51% 49%
    Reporting 100% 99% 98% 100% 99%




“Now it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division,” he said. “It is time for us to come together as one united people. It’s time.”

That, he added, “is so important to me.”

He offered unusually warm words for Mrs. Clinton, who he has suggested should be in jail, saying she was owed “a major debt of gratitude for her service to our country.”

Bolstered by Mr. Trump’s strong showing, Republicans retained control of the Senate. Only one Republican-controlled seat, in Illinois, fell to Democrats early in the evening. And Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, a Republican, easily won re-election in a race that had been among the country’s most competitive. A handful of other Republican incumbents facing difficult races were running better than expected.

Mr. Trump’s win — stretching across the battleground states of Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania — seemed likely to set off financial jitters and immediate unease among international allies, many of which were startled when Mr. Trump in his campaign cast doubt on the necessity of America’s military commitments abroad and its allegiance to international economic partnerships.

From the moment he entered the campaign, with a shocking set of claims that Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals, Mr. Trump was widely underestimated as a candidate, first by his opponents for the Republican nomination and later by Mrs. Clinton, his Democratic rival. His rise was largely missed by polling organizations and data analysts. And an air of improbability trailed his campaign, to the detriment of those who dismissed his angry message, his improvisational style and his appeal to disillusioned voters.

He suggested remedies that raised questions of constitutionality, like a ban on Muslims entering the United States.

He threatened opponents, promising lawsuits against news organizations that covered him critically and women who accused himof sexual assault. At times, he simply lied.

But Mr. Trump’s unfiltered rallies and unshakable self-regard attracted a zealous following, fusing unsubtle identity politics with an economic populism that often defied party doctrine.




...........Donald Trump VICTORY SPEECH | Full Speech as President Elect of the United States....................
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