memeorandum: Police: Road-rage incident in Upper Darby tied to ethnic slurs (Delaware County Times)

11:05 AM ET, November 28, 2016

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CNBC:

Trump ‘furious’ over Kellyanne Conway comments on Sunday shows about Romney: Sources — Two sources at the top of the Donald Trump transition team confirmed to MSNBC that they spoke to the president-elect today and that Donald Trump was “furious” at Kellyanne Conway's comments Sunday suggesting Trump …

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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Conway calls MSNBC report ‘sexist’ … Donald Trump — 's top aide, Kellyanne Conway, on Monday slammed an MSNBC report that said the president-elect was “furious” over comments she made Sunday about Mitt Romney. — Conway called the reporting “sexist” and said she could have any job she wants, according to MSNBC.

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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:

Tug of War Delays Some of Donald Trump's Key Hires — Secretary of state choice slows the president elect's filling of other posts — PALM BEACH, Fla.—President-elect Donald Trump, coming off a steady two-week flow of personnel announcements for his nascent administration …

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Louis Nelson / Politico:

GOP Rep. Collins: Romney is ‘a self-serving egomaniac’ — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a former GOP opponent of President-elect Donald Trump whose name has nonetheless been floated as a potential secretary of state, is “self-serving” and an “ego-maniac” according to New York Rep. Chris Collins.

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Associated Press:

THE LATEST: PRIEBUS SAYS CLINTON, TRUMP TEAMS ‘CUT A DEAL’ — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump's transition (all times EST): — Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff suggests Hillary Clinton is backing away from a deal worked out between the two presidential campaigns …

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CNN:
STATE OF THE UNION

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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:

Media Helps Boost Donald Trump's False Claim That ‘Millions’ Voted Illegally — Newsrooms are still coming to grips with a soon-to-be-president able to distract and distort on Twitter. — NEW YORK On Sunday afternoon, Politico editorial director for digital Blake Hounshell rightly pointed …

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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's baseless assertions of voter fraud called ‘stunning’

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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's bogus claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton

Ezra Klein / Vox:
Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won

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Stephanie Petit / People.com:
Donald Trump Falsely Claims He Won the Electoral College and Popular Vote by a ‘Landslide’

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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Trump falsely claims ‘millions of people who voted illegally’ cost him popular vote

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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump: ‘I won the popular vote if you deduct’ illegal votes

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Seth Barrett Tillman / THE NEW REFORM CLUB:

How The Recounts Pose A Risk To Mike Pence — At American Thinker, Richard Baehr explains: … Richard Baehr, The Democrats' real strategy in launching recounts, American Thinker (Nov. 27, 2016), http://tinyurl.com/gllh85f. Baehr is right, but the Stein-Democrat recount strategy only works …

Richard Baehr / American Thinker:

The Democrats' real strategy in launching recounts — The recount in Wisconsin, and the coming ones in Michigan and Pennsylvania will not change the outcomes in any of the states. No recount ever changes thousands of votes. I do not think that is the purpose.

Discussion: Chicago Boyz and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Zack Beauchamp / Vox:

What the alt-right actually wants from President Trump — The so-called “alt-right” is a loose online movement made up mostly, though not entirely, of white nationalists. They've gotten famous recently for being some of Donald Trump's earliest and most vocal backers, seeing …

Bloomberg:

Trump Walks Business-Politics Tightrope on Cuba After Castro — Backlash possible from companies if he keeps campaign pledges — Priebus reiterates message that the U.S. needs a ‘better deal’ — The death of Cuba's Fidel Castro offers an early glimpse at how U.S. President-elect Donald …

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David Hookstead / The Daily Caller:
Fidel Castro Supporter Colin Kaepernick Greeted By Thunderous Boos In Miami [VIDEO]

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Ted Cruz / National Review:
The Truth about Fidel and Raul

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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:

Jared Kushner Told Christie Ally Behind Bridgegate That Scheme Was ‘Badass’ — Donald Trump's son-in-law once praised a former ally of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) for plotting the 2013 Bridgegate scandal. — In a Dec. 7, 2013 email obtained by the Washington Post …

Discussion: Raw Story

Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
For Trump son-in-law and confidant Jared Kushner, a long history of fierce loyalty

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John R. Schindler / The New York Observer:

The Kremlin Didn't Sink Hillary—Obama Did — Democratic panic about Russian disinformation neglects to mention that it was the White House that refused to stop it — The liberal conniption about alleged Russian “hacking” of our election has reached a boiling point.

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WCMH-TV:

Seven reported transported after active shooter alert on Ohio State campus — COLUMBUS (WCMH) — Firefighters say at least seven people have been transported after the active shooter was reported on campus. — The nature of the injuries are not known at this time.

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Delaware County Times:

Police: Road-rage incident in Upper Darby tied to ethnic slurs — UPPER DARBY >> An apparent road-rage incident in a Wawa parking lot involving a white Armenian man and two Muslim black women quickly escalated, police said, resulting in a tense, ugly incident for the women and the man's arrest …

Discussion: Raw Story and CBS Philly

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Why Corruption Matters — Remember all the news reports suggesting, without evidence, that the Clinton Foundation's fund-raising created conflicts of interest? Well, now the man who benefited from all that innuendo is on his way to the White House. And he's already giving us an object lesson …

Melissa Leon / The Daily Beast:

Mark Hamill Blasts Trump's Cabinet: 'It's a Who's-Who of Really Despicable People' — A week after Election Day, on the first Tuesday in America's new, uncertain reality, the man who once symbolized a rebellion's hope against a white supremacist empire is aghast.