PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump, in a sweeping 70-minute news conference from his Florida home, signaled an abrupt shift from the Biden presidency in both substance and style, threatening to fire federal workers who do not return to the office and confirming that he is “looking at” privatizing the U.S. Postal Service.
Five weeks before Inauguration Day, Trump publicly embraced his role as president-in-waiting, musing about issuing a pardon for New York’s Democratic mayor and expressing skepticism about his daughter-in-law’s chances of being appointed to replace Marco Rubio, R-Florida, in the Senate.
Trump also signaled that some Republican senators could face primary challenges for opposing his Cabinet picks if they were “unreasonable.” Overall, the president-elect signaled a far greater comfort with the prospect of assuming power than he did eight years ago, boasting of the parade of business executives and foreign leaders who have visited him and bragging …