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5:00 PM ET, December 14, 2016

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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
Discussion: neo-neocon and The Hill
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  —  The White House on Wednesday suggested Donald Trump knew Russia was behind a series of hacks that interfered with the U.S. presidential election when he invited Russia to find Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
Sam Biddle / The Intercept:
Here's the Public Evidence Russia Hacked the DNC - It's Not Enough  —  There are some good reasons to believe Russians had something to do with the breaches into email accounts belonging to members of the Democratic party, which proved varyingly embarrassing or disruptive for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.
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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Breitbart:
Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State:
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Chris Isidore / CNNMoney:
The problem with Rex Tillerson's nine-figure nest egg
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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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Michael Flynn quietly deletes fake news tweet about Hillary Clinton's involvement in sex crimes
Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Flynn, Who Improperly Shared Classified Info, Giving Trump Daily ‘Intel Updates’
Discussion: Reuters
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Flynn deletes fake news tweet about Clinton's involvement in sex crimes
Discussion: Raw Story
Nancy Scola / Politico:
Source: Twitter cut out of Trump tech meeting over failed emoji deal  —  Twitter was told it was “bounced” from Wednesday's meeting between tech executives and President-elect Donald Trump in retribution for refusing during the campaign to allow an emoji version of the hashtag #CrookedHillary …
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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Ali Breland / The Hill:
Trump names Elon Musk, Uber CEO to advisory team
Discussion: Forbes and Hot Air
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.
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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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 …
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 …
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.
Discussion: alan.com
Conrad Black / National Review:
Lights Out for the Old Order  —  Trump has wrought a revolution.  —  This is the ninth time I have witnessed, usually from afar but not this time, a party transition in the administration of the United States government.  British prime minister Harold Macmillan famously described the process …
Aaron Diamant / WSB-TV:
Georgia secretary of state says cyberattacks traced to DHS addresses  —  ATLANTA - The Georgia Secretary of State's Office now confirms 10 separate cyberattacks on its network were all traced back to U.S. Department of Homeland Security addresses.  —  In an exclusive interview …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Jennifer Smith / Daily Mail:
Shocking bodycam video shows car theft suspect shooting two cops with a hidden gun after being asked repeatedly to take his hands out his pockets  —  Shocking footage has revealed the moment a black suspect shot two white police officers in a parking lot after being asked repeatedly by one to take his hands out of his pockets.
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.
Paulina Firozi / The Hill:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio resurfaces investigation into Obama citizenship  —  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who lost his Maricopa County, Ariz., reelection bid in November, has restarted his investigation into President Obama's citizenship.  —  Arpaio, a vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump
Discussion: alan.com
 
 
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Reuters:
Trump team disavows survey seeking names of climate workers
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
Affair site Ashley Madison will pay $1.6M fine for 2015 breach
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Numbers / Pew Research Center:
Obama Leaves Office on High Note, But Public Has Mixed Views of Accomplishments
Eric Bates / New Republic:
I. Is Trump Obama's Legacy?
Discussion: The Federalist
Associated Press:
Arkansas School Board Member Called On To Resign Over Blackface Photo
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CNNMoney:
Katrina Pierson seeking role in Trump administration
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New York Times:
Donald Trump's Nominees Are In for a Rough Ride
Sydney Finkelstein / BBC:
Algorithms are making us small-minded
Discussion: Daily Mail
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Divisions deepen inside Trump Tower
Discussion: Political Wire
 

 
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Financial Times:
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