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Bloomberg:
Russia Says It Was in Contact With Trump's Team During Campaign — Russia said it was in contact with President-elect Donald Trump's team during the U.S. election campaign, despite repeated denials by the Republican candidate's advisers that any links existed.
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Washington Post:
Moscow had contacts with Trump team during campaign, Russian diplomat says — MOSCOW — Russian government officials had contacts with members of Donald Trump's campaign team, a senior Russian diplomat said Thursday, in a disclosure that could reopen scrutiny over the Kremlin's role …
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Callum Borchers / Washington Post:
4 threats to the media under President Trump — President-elect Donald Trump said during the campaign that he was “running against the crooked media.” He referred to journalists as “dishonest,” “disgusting” and “scum.” But beyond the insults and the accusations of a conspiracy against him …
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Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
President Obama's Long History of Insulting Donald Trump
President Obama's Long History of Insulting Donald Trump
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Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Transition Team Planning First Months in Office
Donald Trump Transition Team Planning First Months in Office
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump maps out a new administration to bring a seismic shift to Washington
Trump maps out a new administration to bring a seismic shift to Washington
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New York Times:
‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump's Election — Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Manhattan on Wednesday night and converged on Trump Tower in Midtown to protest the election of Donald J. Trump as president. — Similar protests happened in several cities across …
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Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
‘People Have to Die’: Anti-Trump Protester Calls For Violence on CNN — During the massive anti-Donald Trump protests held in California the day after Election Day, one woman CNN spoke to called for violence and death as a means to enact political change. — “If we don't fight, who is going to fight for us?
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James Wilkinson / Daily Mail:
Anti-Trump protests turn violent: Cops clash with 6,000-strong crowd in Oakland and activists …
Anti-Trump protests turn violent: Cops clash with 6,000-strong crowd in Oakland and activists …
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Caleb Howe / RedState:
“People Have to Die”: Anti-Trump Protests Start Ugly and Get Worse
“People Have to Die”: Anti-Trump Protests Start Ugly and Get Worse
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Aaron Sorkin / Vanity Fair:
Read the Letter Aaron Sorkin Wrote His Daughter After Donald Trump Was Elected President — The Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Social Network and mastermind behind The West Wing reacts to Donald Trump being elected the 45th president of the United States in a moving letter written …
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Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
Here Is What Donald Trump Wants To Do In His First 100 Days — At the end of October, Donald Trump spoke in Gettysburg, Pa., and released a plan for his first 100 days in office. — The plan (below) outlines three main areas of focus: cleaning up Washington, including by imposing term limits on Congress …
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Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump arrives in DC for meeting with Obama — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential transition (all times EST): — President-elect Donald Trump has arrived in Washington for his meeting with President Barack Obama. — Trump flew from New York on his private jet …
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Erick-Woods Erickson / New York Times:
Erick Erickson: Eating Crow on Donald Trump — Atlanta — Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States. I got it absolutely wrong. I have been writing since February that he would not win. The great paradox of this election for me is that I never saw …
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Eun Kyung Kim / TODAY.com:
Chris Christie: Donald Trump and I haven't discussed a potential Cabinet role
Chris Christie: Donald Trump and I haven't discussed a potential Cabinet role
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Bloomberg:
Trump's Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right — The president-elect's analysts picked up disturbances others weren't seeing—the beginning of the storm that would deliver Trump to the White House. — Subscribe Reprints — Nobody saw it coming. Not the media.
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Tim Alberta / National Review:
UPDATED: Obama 2012 Would've Beaten Trump 2016 — UPDATE: Mea Culpa. — Here's what happened: I used the New York Times vote-record database for the numbers in this post. This was a matter of convenience; I had already been using the NYT database because of its excellent interactive feature …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
How Gary Johnson and Jill Stein helped elect Donald Trump — Washington (CNN)Neither Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson nor the Green Party's Jill Stein managed to make a dent in the Electoral College, but they did post a significant enough showing in several states arguably to help elect Donald Trump.
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Secretary Of Education Ben Carson? Here's A List Of Potential Trump Cabinet Picks — President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has put together a who's who shortlist of Trump surrogates and advisers to take top positions in his administration next year, ranging from former …
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Hot Air, RedState and Joe.My.God.
Los Angeles Times:
Anti-Trump protesters shut down 101 Freeway in L.A., burn Trump's head in effigy — Thousands of people poured into the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night, and hundreds of them later spilled onto the 101 Freeway, shutting down traffic as they forcefully denounced President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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Kate Kelly / CNBC:
Donald Trump advisors consider Jamie Dimon for treasury secretary: Sources — Trump team considers Dimon for Treasury -Sources — CNBC's Kate Kelly discusses reports that the Trump campaign is considering appointing JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary.
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Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
National recall after Newsweek misfires with Clinton cover … A national recall went out Wednesday for the special “Madame President” issue of Newsweek that was prematurely shipped to stores and newsstands across the country. — At the same time, the publisher of the magazine will rush the …
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TMZ.com:
Donald Trump — No-Fly Zone Over Trump Tower — EXCLUSIVE — Donald Trump is getting a massive security blanket, courtesy of the FAA ... so the NYC building where he lives and works does not fall victim to terrorists flying airplanes. — Pilots have been ordered to stay clear of the 58-story building on 5th Ave.
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Jeff Greenfield / Politico:
Voters Gone Wild: the Story of Election 2016 — When Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974, a round of self-congratulation broke out. — “The system worked!” we told ourselves. A determined press following leads to the inner sanctums of the White House, a federal judge forcing revelations …
Reihan Salam / Slate:
Trump Unbound — The president-elect owes hardly anyone. The number of people who'll be able to rein him in is vanishingly small. — Once Donald Trump takes office, he will be the most widely loathed president in modern American history. Yet he will also have far more room to maneuver than any of his recent predecessors.
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