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Trump & Vance Attend Military Football Game with Cabinet Picks, Ex-Marine Who Killed Subway Performer

HeadlineDec 16, 2024

Here in the U.S., President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance attended the Army-Navy football game Saturday along with some of his Cabinet picks, including embattled defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth; Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s nominee to become director of national intelligence; and Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to head the FBI. Vance also invited Daniel Penny to the game, the former U.S. marine who was acquitted last week by a New York jury for killing the street performer Jordan Neely on a subway train.

In other transition news, three prominent tech billionaires — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman of OpenAI — have reportedly agreed to their companies donating $1 million each to Trump’s inaugural fund. Zuckerberg, who once banned Trump from Facebook, recently dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

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