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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.
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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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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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Trump's baseless assertions of voter fraud called ‘stunning’ — Donald Trump on Sunday used the platform of the presidency to peddle a fringe conspiracy theory to justify his loss of the popular vote, claiming without evidence that millions of people voted illegally Nov. 8.
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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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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's bogus claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton
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Tom LoBianco / CNN:
Trump falsely claims ‘millions of people who voted illegally’ cost him popular vote
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Stephanie Petit / People.com:
Donald Trump Falsely Claims He Won the Electoral College and Popular Vote by a ‘Landslide’
Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Trump: ‘I won the popular vote if you deduct’ illegal votes
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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.
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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 …
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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.
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Heather Mac Donald / City Journal:
Democrats, Not Trump, Racialize Our Politics — A party obsessed with race won't have much luck reaching out to non-elite whites. — Politics and law — The Social Order — Democratic pundits are calling on their party to court working-class and non-coastal whites in the wake of this month's electoral rout.
David Hookstead / The Daily Caller:
Fidel Castro Supporter Colin Kaepernick Greeted By Thunderous Boos In Miami [VIDEO] — Fidel Castro Supporter Colin Kaepernick Greeted By Thunderous Boos In Miami — Trump's Brutally Honest Castro Statement Proves He's No Obama — DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION | — MICHAEL BASTASCH
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David Caplan / ABC News:
Former Cuban Castaway Elian Gonzalez Remembers Fidel Castro as a Father Figure-Turned-Friend
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Ted Cruz / National Review:
The Truth about Fidel and Raul
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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 …
Shawn Boburg / Washington Post:
For Trump son-in-law and confidant Jared Kushner, a long history of fierce loyalty — Jared Kushner was just an undergrad at Harvard when politicians began receiving big-dollar campaign donations bearing his name. — In reality, the money was sent by his father, a powerful New Jersey real estate mogul.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Combative, Populist Steve Bannon Found His Man in Donald Trump — When Julia Jones arrived at her office in Santa Monica at 8 a.m. — by Hollywood screenwriter standards, the crack of dawn — she found Stephen K. Bannon already at his desk, which was cluttered with takeout coffees.
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