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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:
Trump draws sharp rebuke, concerns over newly appointed chief White House strategist Steven Bannon — President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the White House has drawn a sharp rebuke from political strategists who see in Bannon …
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
5 takeaways on Trump's first 5 days — This is what winging it looks like, America. — Donald Trump is compulsively improvisational, and ran the most successful back-of-the-napkin operation in American political history, but the challenge confronting him is, by his own admission, nothing like anything anybody has ever faced.
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The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Dream: a Worldwide Ultra-Right — PARIS—Never mind that the French cable television report on Stephen Bannon made him look like one of the winos living on grates in Paris, or that it compared Bannon, Donald Trump's grizzled éminence grise and newly-named White House chief strategist …
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Kim Bellware / The Huffington Post:
A White Nationalist Is The New White House Chief Strategist — Steve Bannon, who stoked the flames of alt-right fury while running Breitbart News, is headed to the presidential inner circle. — Steve Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman known for having white nationalist views …
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New York Times:
Donald Trump Picks Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff and Stephen Bannon as Strategist
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump names white nationalist figure ‘Chief Strategist to the President’
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
RNC Chair Priebus Is Leading Contender to be Trump's Chief of Staff
Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Trump Taps Reince Priebus As Chief Of Staff, Steve Bannon As Chief Strategist
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John Santucci / ABC News:
Trump Names Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff, Steve Bannon as Senior Adviser
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
The real voices that aren't heard: Jill Lawrence — Our numbers are legion, but where we live has cost us two presidents and a Supreme Court majority. — Poor, poor pitiful flyover country. Never getting the attention or respect or economic consideration it deserves. Never having a president to call its own.
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump says he's ‘fine’ with legalization of same-sex marriage — Donald Trump said he is “fine with” same-sex marriage but offered few specifics about his plans for the first 100 days of his administration during his first television interview since becoming the president-elect.
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Donald Trump Appears to Soften Stance on Immigration, but Not on Abortion
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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Trump backs off promise of special prosecutor for Clinton
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CBS News:
Trump talks to “60 Minutes” about same-sex marriage, abortion and the Supreme Court
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Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is Settled Law, Abortion Isn't
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Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
GOP President-Elect Donald Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is ‘Settled’ Law
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Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump ‘fine’ with Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Conway: Trump May Hold Special Session To Repeal O'care On Inauguration Day — Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that Trump has considered calling a special session of Congress on the day of his inauguration to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan Won't Say Whether Plan To Replace Obamacare Will Cover Free Birth Control (VIDEO)
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
Where now for the Democrats? — What happens to Democrats in the Trump era? — In the 1992 presidential election, after three straight terms of Republicans in the White House, Bill Clinton — successfully remade the Democrats into a party of political centrists to regain the support of so-called ‘Reagan Democrats.’
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Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid Endorses Keith Ellison For DNC Chair
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Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes — What can we expect from a Trump presidency? 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl finds some of his campaign issues were not meant to be taken literally, but as opening bids for negotiation — The following script is from “The 45th President,” which aired on Nov. 13, 2016.
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Roque Planas / The Huffington Post:
Trump Says He'll Immediately Deport Or Imprison Up To 3 Million Undocumented Immigrants
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CBS News:
Trump's wall to include fencing?
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Theodore Schleifer / CNN:
CNN's ‘Unprecedented’: Trump told Christie he didn't think he'd last past October 2015 — “They always had an understanding that the first one out would probably endorse the other,” the adviser said. — Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's February endorsement of Donald …
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Mendham-Chester, NJ Patch, RedState, alan.com, The Week and New York Post
Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch:
Sweden: Muslims brutally beat TV chef because he “looked like Mr. Trump” — Because, you know, Trump is supposedly going to victimize innocent Muslims, and so in protest of the possibility of that happening, innocent and peaceful Muslims are justified in victimizing innocent people. Got it?
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Pulling Democrats Back to 'It's the Economy, Stupid' — WASHINGTON — The Democrats' stunning defeat in the presidential race and continued struggles in lower-level contests have jolted party leaders into concluding that their emphasis on cultural issues has all but crippled …
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Political Wire
Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
Anti-Trump Protests: Proof Of Professional Activist Involvement — In a story from November 12, USA Today writes an article to discredit the idea that the professional activist community is involved with organizing anti-Trump protests. They invite you to meet the protesters.
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump camp mulls wrestling's McMahon for Commerce: report — 's transition team is considering former WWE CEO Linda McMahon for the president-elect's future secretary of Commerce, according to a new report. — NBC Connecticut said Sunday it confirmed McMahon's possible appointment …
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