memeorandum: Tempers Flare, as Campaign Aides Assess Still-Raw 2016 Race (Associated Press)

10:50 PM ET, December 1, 2016

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Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James Mattis for secretary of defense — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis to be secretary of defense, according to people familiar with the decision, nominating a former senior military officer who led operations across …

CNN:
James Mattis selected as Trump's secretary of defense

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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump Says He ‘Had a Lot of Fun Fighting’ Hillary Clinton

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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Reportedly Picks Retired Gen. James Mattis As Secretary Of Defense

Discussion: Politico, National Review, Washington Post and Sputnik International

Ted Mann / Wall Street Journal:

Indiana Gives $7 Million in Tax Breaks to Keep Carrier Jobs — The move will keep about 1,000 jobs in the state; Trump and Pence to announce the deal later today — Indiana officials have agreed to give United Technologies Corp. $7 million worth of tax breaks over 10 years to encourage …

Washington Post:

Bernie Sanders: Carrier just showed corporations how to beat Donald Trump — We need a president who can stand up to big corporations, not fold to their demands. — Today, about 1,000 Carrier workers and their families should be rejoicing. But the rest of our nation's workers should be very nervous.

Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:

An expert breaks down Trump's Carrier deal: ‘Ineffective’ and ‘very costly’ — Announcing the deal, Trump also promised to scrap most business regulations. — After trumpeting a deal that his administration struck with the air conditioning and heating furnace manufacturer Carrier to avert …

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Washington Post:
Trump defends direct negotiations with companies to keep jobs in U.S., saying deal to save Carrier jobs …

Discussion: Mother Jones

Timothy B. Lee / Vox:
The Carrier deal shows a big problem with Trump's approach to the presidency

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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Trump Cheered for Carrier Deal Even as Other Jobs Are Trimmed

Discussion: Washington Post and Acton Institute PowerBlog

Gary Legum / Salon:
Donald Trump's Carrier deal is an empty PR stunt — and a bad precedent that incentivizes bad corporate behavior

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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory, explained

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Washington Post:

Shouting match erupts between Clinton and Trump aides — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The raw, lingering emotion of the 2016 presidential campaign erupted into a shouting match here Thursday as top strategists of Hillary Clinton's campaign accused their Republican counterparts of fueling and legitimizing racism to elect Donald Trump.

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Rick Klein / ABC News:

Clinton, Trump Aides Angrily Clash at Election Forum — Top officials from the Trump and Clinton campaigns clashed angrily Thursday over questions of mandates and alleged associations with white supremacists — leaving a conference designed to draw lessons from the election turning at times into a shouting match over campaign tactics.

Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire

Associated Press:

Tempers Flare, as Campaign Aides Assess Still-Raw 2016 Race — Tempers flared and political fault-lines were inflamed, as aides to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton gathered for their first meeting since Election Day. — Every four years since 1972, top presidential campaign aides have met …

Discussion: ABC News

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Campaign operatives blast Jeff Zucker over CNN coverage at Harvard event

Discussion: Vox and Media Matters for America

Jack Holmes / Esquire:

A Trump Surrogate Drops the Mic: 'There's No Such Thing as Facts' — Finally, Scottie Nell Hughes spells it out for us. — Is there such a thing as truth? The past 18 months posed this seemingly absurd question. It's not whether something Donald Trump says is true, but about whether anyone even cares.

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Richard Drew / The Diane Rehm Show:
How Journalists Are Rethinking Their Role Under A Trump Presidency

Discussion: Washington Post, Political Wire and Raw Story

Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Christie throws his hat in the ring for RNC chair — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expressing serious interest in the job of Republican National Committee chairman — and he's getting an audience to make his case. — Christie told senior members of Donald Trump's presidential transition team …

Discussion: Bearing Drift, ABC News, Mediaite, RedState, The Daily Caller, The Week, Business Insider, Joe.My.God., Wall Street Journal and Political Wire

Darius Dixon / Politico:

Trump team considering Sen. Joe Manchin for energy secretary — President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is considering Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia for the energy secretary job, according to three sources close to the discussions. — The conservative Democrat …

Discussion: Roll Call, Hot Air, New York Magazine, TheBlaze and Political Wire

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Why GOPs Will Beg Dems To Help Kill Obamacare and Medicare — We are only a few weeks into the booyah! boasting phase of the Trump GOP Era. But we are already seeing a central theme emerging, especially on health care policy. Both on repealing Obamacare and phasing out Medicare …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Washington Post, Washington Monthly and Wall Street Journal

Joshua Stewart / sandiegouniontribune.com:

Rep. Darrell Issa sues Doug Applegate for libel — While ballots are still being processed, the current gap between the candidates appears greater than the number of uncounted votes, shoring up a victory for Issa barring any sort of unexpected and unusual development.

Discussion: Mother Jones, Times of San Diego and Law News

Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:

Rep. Keith Ellison faces renewed scrutiny over past ties to Nation of Islam, defense of anti-Semitic figures — (CNN)Rep. Keith Ellison's past ties to the Nation of Islam and his defense of its anti-Semitic leader, Louis Farrakhan, are resurfacing as he campaigns to lead the Democratic National Committee.

Discussion: New York Times, Jezebel, Hot Air, Power Line, Politico, Booman Tribune, The Daily Caller, The Week, Mediaite and Tablet Magazine

The Hill:

Trump basks in victory on ‘thank you tour’ — The first stop in President-elect Donald Trump — 's “thank you tour” quickly turned into a victory lap for the real estate magnate to revel in his surprising win and bash the naysayers that believed he had no shot at the White House.

Vera Bergengruen / Press Association:

Supporters don't really care if Trump drains the swamp — The swamp is in the eye of the beholder. — As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” in Washington. Now that he's been elected and is embracing part of that very establishment, Democrats and many in the media …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Adrian Chen / New Yorker:

The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda — In late October, I received an e-mail from “The PropOrNot Team,” which described itself as a “newly-formed independent team of computer scientists, statisticians, national security professionals, journalists and political activists …

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Mike Rowe / Facebook:

Hot Under The Blue Collar, Episode 11 — Last night on the tee-vee, as I flicked back and forth between my most trusted sources of cable news, I saw a number a college students setting fire to the American flag. Some of the students said they were “angry.” Others said they were “disgusted.”

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Rare and Independent Journal Review

Teresa Welsh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

VA may have infected 600 veterans with HIV and Hepatitis — Nearly 600 veterans could have been infected with HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C at a Veterans Affairs facility in Tomah, Wis. because a dentist didn't properly clean his instruments. — The Tomah VA is investigating the dentist …

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Justin Wm / Washington Post:

Beaver walks into Md. store, finds only artificial Christmas trees, and proceeds to trash it — In St. Mary's County, Md., at least one badly behaved beaver is ready for holiday shopping. — The beaver was apprehended at a dollar store in Charlotte Hall, Md., the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office …

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New York Times:

North Carolina's Sore Loser — As early voting exit polls in North Carolina trickled in just before Election Day, state Republican Party officials could hardly contain their glee. They issued a statement hailing early results that suggested “the once dynamic Obama Coalition” was “crumbling and tired.”

Discussion: Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money, abc11.com and Washington Free Beacon

Kate Aurthur / BuzzFeed:

LGBT Couples Welcome On “Fixer Upper,” HGTV Says — The network says, “We don't discriminate against the LGBT community in any of our shows.” — An HGTV spokesperson said the network doesn't discriminate against the LGBT community after a BuzzFeed News report on Fixer Upper hosts Chip …

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Megan Christie / ABC News:

Christmas Party May Have Triggered San Bernardino Terror Attack: Police — One year after the terror attacks in San Bernardino, the ABC News Investigative Unit and Nightline are looking back, revealing never-before-seen photos and videos, and hearing from the first responders …

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Philip Bump / Washington Post:

There have been just 4 documented cases of voter fraud in the 2016 election — Three weeks ago, the votes of more than 135 million Americans were counted, and Donald Trump was declared the winner of the 2016 presidential election. It was a surprising result, given that polling in the run …

Discussion: The BRAD BLOG, Daily Kos, New Urban Legends and Associated Press

Jan Hoffman / New York Times:

A Dose of a Hallucinogen From a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace — On a summer morning in 2013, Octavian Mihai entered a softly lit room furnished with a small statue of Buddha, a box of tissues and a single red rose. From an earthenware chalice, he swallowed a capsule of psilocybin …

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Tim Barber / WJLA-TV:

Pride flags pop up in VP-elect Pence's temporary Northwest D.C. neighborhood — Christmas decorations are popping up left and right, but one street in NW Washington has a different kind of decoration this season—rainbow flags. — “A respectful message showing, in my case …