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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lessig: 20 Trump electors could flip — Larry Lessig, a Harvard University constitutional law professor who made a brief run for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, claimed Tuesday that 20 Republican members of the Electoral College are considering voting against Donald Trump …
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New York Times:
Buck Up, Democrats, and Fight Like Republicans — On Monday, members of the Electoral College will vote in Donald J. Trump as president. Though he lost the election by nearly three million votes and almost daily generates headlines about new scandals, the Democratic Party is doing little to stop him.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Fight Donald Trump With Normal Politics, Not Crazy Electoral College Schemes
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Full-page ads turn up the heat on Trump electors
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election — Everybody could see Hillary Clinton was cooked in Iowa. So when, a week-and-a-half out, the Service Employees International Union started hearing anxiety out of Michigan, union officials decided to reroute their volunteers …
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Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Earnest: Trump may have known Russia behind hacking before Election Day
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Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Here's the Public Evidence Russia Hacked the DNC - It's Not Enough
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CNN:
Did Donald Trump need an apology from Mitt Romney? — Source: Trump told Romney he won't be nominee — (CNN)As President-elect Donald Trump considered Mitt Romney for secretary of state, Trump wanted one thing Romney wouldn't give him: an apology. — Trump was willing to move past Romney's bitter campaign-trail criticism of him.
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Trump wasn't happy with his State Department finalists. Then he heard a new name. — Donald Trump sat in his office at Trump Tower on Dec. 2 facing the most important choice of his transition to the presidency, and his indecision had set off a war among his top aides.
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Mitchell Schnurman / Dallas Morning News:
Like Donald Trump, Rex Tillerson has financial conflicts — over $177M in Exxon stock that can't be sold
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
Rex Tillerson's 3 a.m. phone call
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Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
The problem with Rex Tillerson's nine-figure nest egg
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Trump's national security adviser shared secrets without permission, files show — A secret U.S. military investigation in 2010 determined that Michael T. Flynn, the retired Army general tapped to serve as national security adviser in the Trump White House, “inappropriately shared” …
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Read the military investigation into Michael Flynn, Trump's national security adviser
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Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Flynn, Who Improperly Shared Classified Info, Giving Trump Daily ‘Intel Updates’
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Esther Yu Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Gen. Michael Flynn, who called for Hillary to be jailed, improperly shared classified information
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William D. Cohan / Vanity Fair:
Huma vs. the “Night Stalkers” — After a stunning election loss, the knives appear to be out in Clintonworld. — “Maybe I'm just pissed off, but I really don't give a s**t about what happens to Huma to be honest with you,” one close adviser to Hillary Clinton told me recently.
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GreatAgain:
President-Elect Donald J. Trump Announces Travis Kalanick of Uber, Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla, and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo to Join President's Strategic and Policy Forum — (New York, NY)—President-elect Donald J. Trump today announced that three additional members will join …
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Daniel Wagner / BuzzFeed:
Trump Must Give Up Hotel Before Inauguration, Agency Tells Lawmakers — Major development in dispute over Donald Trump's conflicts of interest: The government agency that leases a taxpayer-owned landmark for Trump's Washington hotel has told lawmakers that the president-elect will be in breach …
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Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Federal Agency Warns Trump He Must Give Up DC Hotel Before Inauguration
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obama Administration Bars States From Withholding Federal Money From Planned Parenthood — WASHINGTON — Mindful of the clock ticking down to a Trump presidency, the Obama administration on Wednesday issued a final rule to bar states from withholding federal family-planning funds …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Don Trump Jr. involved in INTERIOR search — WAYNE BERMAN up for TRADE REP — TRUMP'S TECH SUMMIT — SPOTTED AT DAVID RUBENSTEIN'S PARTY — B'DAY: Kirsten Powers — By JAKE SHERMAN (sherman@politico.com; @JakeSherman) and ANNA PALMER (anna@politico.com; @apalmerdc) with DANIEL LIPPMAN …
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Flynn deletes fake news tweet about Clinton's involvement in sex crimes — Incoming White House national security adviser Michael Flynn quietly deleted a tweet in which he shared a fake news story linking Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton — to sex crimes with minors, CNN reported.
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S.P. Sullivan / New Jersey Online:
N.J. trooper pulled over women to ask them out, covered it up, state says — TRENTON — A New Jersey state trooper has been suspended without pay after an internal investigation found he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates and falsifying police records to cover it up, authorities said.
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Jason Kurtz / CNN:
NFL great Brown on meeting Trump: ‘I fell in love with him’ — Jim Brown on Trump: He has “my admiration” — (CNN)NFL legend Jim Brown stopped by Trump Tower Tuesday for a meeting pegged as a discussion about issues facing the African-American community, saying he “fell in love” with President-elect Donald Trump.
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Nominees Are In for a Rough Ride — Worried about the corporate gazillionaires whom Donald Trump is naming to his cabinet? Don't fret — it could be months, if ever, before these people set foot inside the federal government. Mr. Trump's transition team is seriously behind …
Tara Golshan / Vox:
Trump says the press mangles his “beautiful flowing sentences.” We asked linguists to weigh in. — This week, President-Elect Donald Trump canceled a much-anticipated press conference on his private business dealings, saying he was too busy nominating Cabinet members.
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