memeorandum: Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’ (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

9:10 PM ET, December 18, 2016

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Luke Harding / The Guardian:

Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company — Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, The New Americana, Common Dreams, Occupy Democrats, Jezebel, alan.com and Observer

Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Americans Believe Trump Will Bring Change but Are Divided Over What Kind

Discussion: AOL

Elana Schor / Politico: ExxonMobil helped defeat Russia sanctions bill

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’ — Facing a wave of calls, Pennsylvania electors sounding unshakable — President-elect Donald Trump during a “thank you” rally in Alabama tonight. — President-elect Donald Trump — HARRISBURG — Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day.

Discussion: RedState, Raw Story, BizPac Review and The Gateway Pundit

Washington Post:

A new poll shows 52% of Republicans actually think Trump won the popular vote — Amid the speculation on whether the electoral college will refuse to make Donald Trump president, many Trump opponents are pinning their hopes on one glaring fact: Hillary Clinton's sizable win in the popular vote.

Discussion: Raw Story, Business Insider, Politicus USA, New York Magazine, Scripting News, Mediaite, RedState, Daily Kos and Political Wire

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday — The 538 members of the Electoral College will meet in their state capitols Monday, almost assuredly sealing President-elect Donald Trump — 's victory. — Trump won 306 electoral votes on Election Day …

Discussion: Raw Story, The Daily Caller and Vox

New York Times:

Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections — Members of the Electoral College will meet Monday to cast their votes for president. President-elect Donald J. Trump has claimed he won the electoral vote in a “landslide,” but he ranks below most presidents in the electoral vote and popular vote margins.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Week

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 2.8 million. Most Republicans are convinced he won.

Discussion: alan.com

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Electors under siege

Discussion: Power Line, Jamie Dupree, Hot Air, Heat Street, New York Magazine, ABC News, Law News, The Point, Political Wire, Business Insider, Independent Journal Review and Vox Popoli

Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:

Donald Trump: The Russian Poodle — In 1972, President Richard Nixon's White House dispatched burglars to bug Democratic Party offices. That Watergate burglary and related “dirty tricks,” such as releasing mice at a Democratic press conference and paying a woman to strip naked and shout …

ABC News:

Senior GOP Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of CIA Director Over Media Leaks on Russian Hacking — A senior Republican congressman called for an investigation into whether the head of the CIA leaked to the media while withholding from Congress the agency's findings that Russians used hacking …

Discussion: Daily Mail, alan.com, Associated Press and Politico

Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims

Discussion: Political Wire and Vox

Eric Bradner / CNN:
McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to ‘destroy democracy’

Discussion: Washington Post and AOL

Ian Kullgren / Politico:
Priebus: Trump not yet ready to accept Russian election tampering

Discussion: Daily Kos

Fox News:
Priebus: Trump ready to accept Russia hacking report, if CIA, FBI get on same page

Discussion: Washington Post and The Right Scoop

Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:

White nationalists target Jews in small Montana town — A call to action in the Daily Stormer describes Jews as a “vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.” — A white-supremacist call to action to “troll” Jewish people in Whitefish, Montana—home of white nationalist Richard Spencer's mother …

Discussion: The Talking Dog, Jezebel, Occupy Democrats and Daily Stormer

Keila Szpaller / Missoulian:

White supremacist website calls for action in Montana — A white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to “TAKE ACTION” against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a “troll storm” against them.

Discussion: Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99 — Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Discussion: New York Magazine, TMZ.com and Jezebel

ABC News:

‘This Week’ Transcript 12-18-16: Donna Brazile — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on December 18, 2016 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: Let's take that straight to Donna Brazile, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, which took the brunt of Russia's cyber hack.

Discussion: Althouse, AOL, Politicus USA and Politico

Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Week

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Dem boss demands bipartisan congressional investigation into Russian hacks

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Fox News:

Reince Priebus on war of words with White House over Russia — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” December 18, 2016. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace. — With the Electoral College set to meet tomorrow …

Discussion: Althouse and Politicus USA

Michelle Goldberg / Slate:

How the AIDS movement has given birth to the Trump resistance. — When Annette Gaudino, a longtime activist with the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, or ACT UP, realized that Donald Trump was going to win the election, she felt a sick sense of déjà vu.