Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, The Hill, JustOneMinute, RedState, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Joe.My.God., The Week, TheBlaze and Guardian
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story, alan.com and Political Wire
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
Discussion:
NBC News, Washington Post, AOL and Washington Times
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 …
Discussion:
RedState, Hot Air and Joe.My.God.
RELATED:
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Democrats face a power outage in Washington — and an identity crisis — The biggest stain on Barack Obama's political legacy may turn out to be the decimation of the Democratic Party on his watch. — The 2016 election has brought a moment of reckoning — and a new era to the party.
Discussion:
ABC News, Politico, Liberal Values and No More Mister Nice Blog
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 …
Discussion:
PoliPundit.com
Kathleen Hennessey / Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump arrives in DC for meeting with Obama
The Latest: Trump arrives in DC for meeting with Obama
Discussion:
ABC News, The Daily Caller and Associated Press
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?
Discussion:
Washington Free Beacon and Jammie Wearing Fools
RELATED:
Stacy St. Clair / Chicago Tribune:
5 arrested after largely peaceful anti-Trump protests downtown — Warning: contains graphic language. Thousands of protesters angry over Donald Trump's election victory massed outside Trump Tower in Chicago on Nov. 9, 2016 before taking to downtown streets in an angry show of opposition to the president-elect.
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Daily Wire, KRON4.com, New York Magazine, Jezebel, The Federalist and Los Angeles Times
New York Times:
‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump's Election
‘Not Our President’: Protests Spread After Donald Trump's Election
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, The Gateway Pundit, Althouse and Daily Kos
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
Discussion:
abc7news.com, twitchy.com, Business Insider, France 24 and BizPac Review
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 …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, War on the Rocks, New York Magazine, The Root, Jezebel and Reuters
RELATED:
Lauren Hodges / NPR:
GOP Leaders Make Peace With Trump In Favor Of ‘Unified Republican Government’
GOP Leaders Make Peace With Trump In Favor Of ‘Unified Republican Government’
Discussion:
Washington Post and The Root
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 …
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Business Insider, AOL, Guardian, Deadline and New York Magazine
RELATED:
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.
Discussion:
Business Insider
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story, The Atlantic, TheBlaze, New York Magazine, Politico, Oath Keepers, Townhall.com and Washington Post
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.
Discussion:
Washington Post, Independent Journal Review, 89.3 KPCC, KTLA, CBS San Francisco, The Week, NPR and New York Times
Melia Robinson / Business Insider:
People in California are calling for a ‘Calexit’ from the US in the wake of Trump's win — “Calexit” is swiftly taking over social media. — After Donald Trump won the race to the White House, people across California took to social media Tuesday night to call for “Calexit,” recalling Brexit in its push to leave the union.
Discussion:
BizPac Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Hot Air, Independent Journal Review, CNBC, New York Times, Metro.co.uk, FOX31 Denver, CNNMoney, RedState, CANNONFIRE, Joe.My.God., New Urban Legends, Daily Wire, Infowars, New Century Times, CBS San Francisco, CBS Los Angeles, KRON4.com, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Mashable
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What A Difference 2 Percentage Points Makes — Here's the Electoral College map we're going to end up with, assuming that every uncalled state goes to the candidate leading in the vote count there as of 4 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday. There's a sea of red for President-elect Donald Trump.
Discussion:
Political Insider blog, Balloon Juice, New York Times and Opinion Today
Garrison Keillor / Washington Post:
Trump voters will not like what happens next — Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality. — So he won. The nation takes a deep breath. Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out, and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president.
Discussion:
The Week
Megan Burks / KPBS Public Media:
San Diego State Investigates Robbery Incident As Hate Crime — Campus police at San Diego State University are looking for two suspects who allegedly made comments about President-elect Donald Trump and Muslims before stealing a student's belongings and possibly her car.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Washington Post and Law News
Cogan Schneier / Politico:
Trump poised to erase Obama policies — Prepare for an imperial presidency. — Donald Trump has pledged to “reform the entire regulatory code,” to “cancel immediately all illegal and overreaching executive orders,” and to place a “temporary moratorium on new agency regulations that are not compelled by Congress or public safety.”
Discussion:
alan.com
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Reince Priebus' moment — The cast of characters behind Donald Trump changed repeatedly during the course of his improbable presidential campaign as the rookie candidate struggled to strike the balance between Republican politician and anti-establishment crusader, but one person remained constant: Reince Priebus.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
America Elects a Bigot — Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States. Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd write. — Against all odds and against all forms of the establishment, he prevailed. He won, legitimately, including in many states that were thought to be safely blue.
Discussion:
Heat Street
The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Struggling to Fill National Security Jobs — President-Elect Donald Trump is scrambling to line up senior officials to run the government's sprawling intelligence and homeland security bureaucracy. — Team Trump is struggling to fill numerous key slots or even attract many candidates …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, alan.com, Politico and Politicus USA