THE INTERPRETER: ‘Unprecedented White House attempt to smear incoming president’ — According to the editor of Defense & Foreign Affairs publications Gregory R Copley, “the White House is doing something almost unprecedented in US presidential history and the history of transitions. It is trying to go to great length to discredit an incoming administration. What is remarkable is how softly President-elect Trump is responding to this – not reacting to the incredible and vituperative nature of the attacks on him and on the attempts to smear him with the allegations of foreign aid for his election victory.”