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Washington : Two weeks after his surprise election victory, US President-elect Donald Trump has indicated a U-turn on several of his key poll promises and rhetoric, including his hardline on climate change, torture of detainees and his vow to jail Hillary Clinton. During an interview with reporters and editors of The New York Times, Trump threw enough hints that he would be an unconventional president in terms of distancing himself from his business, receiving inputs from family members in his governance and relationship with the press.
He held out assurances that he did not intend to embrace extremist positions in some areas, the daily said after the interview with Trump, who "vigorously denounced" a white nationalist conference last weekend in Washington. Trump made a U-turn from his campaign promise on appointing a special prosecutor to investigate into the alleged email scandal of his presidential rival Hillary Clinton. "I dont want to hurt the Clintons, I really dont," he said, adding "she went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways."
During the election campaign Trump had said Clinton would be in jail if he won the elections. He now faces the consternation of supporters who took that pledge literally. On climate change, he said "Im looking at it very closely" as he refused to repeat his promise to abandon the international climate accord. "I have an open mind to it" and that clean air and "crystal clear water" were vitally important, Trump said. Earlier, Trump had called climate change a "hoax" perpetrated by China and vowed to "cancel" the hard-fought Paris Agreement concluded last year to limit dangerous global warming. PTI
