memeorandum: A White Nationalist Is The New White House Chief Strategist (Kim Bellware/The Huffington Post)

2:30 PM ET, November 14, 2016

Top Items:

A White Nationalist Is The New White House Chief Strategist — Steve Bannon, who stoked the flames of alt-right fury while running Breitbart News, is headed to the presidential inner circle. — Steve Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman known for having white nationalist views …

Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:

Trump draws sharp rebuke, concerns over newly appointed chief White House strategist Steven Bannon — President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the White House has drawn a sharp rebuke from political strategists who see in Bannon …

Discussion: The Hill, Business Insider, Fox News, alicublog, No More Mister Nice Blog, NPR, Wall Street Journal, The Week and Mediaite

Glenn Thrush / Politico:

5 takeaways on Trump's first 5 days — This is what winging it looks like, America. — Donald Trump is compulsively improvisational and ran the most successful back-of-the-napkin operation in American political history, but the challenge confronting him is, by his own admission, nothing like anything anybody has ever faced.

Discussion: Associated Press

CNN:
White nationalists see advocate in Steve Bannon who will hold Trump to his campaign promises

Discussion: Media Matters for America and Politico

The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Dream: a Worldwide Ultra-Right

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Washingtonian, CANNONFIRE, Media Matters for America, Raw Story, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Outside the Beltway and NPR

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Major newspapers normalize Trump's selection of white nationalist as chief strategist

Discussion: New York Times, Politico, New York Magazine, News, Indy Week, Daily Kos, The Times of Israel, Media Matters for America, ABC News and www.wnyc.org

Burgess Everett / Politico:
Reid plans to keep up anti-Trump barrage

Discussion: Daily Kos, ABC News and RT

Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Trump faces backlash over appointing Bannon as a top aide, a choice critics say will empower white nationalists

Discussion: Mother Jones

Benjy Sarlin / NBC News:
Analysis: Breitbart's Steve Bannon Leads the ‘Alt Right’ to the White House

Discussion: TODAY.com, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo and Independent Journal Review

New York Times:
Breitbart, Reveling in Trump's Election, Gains a Voice in His White House

Discussion: Politico, Common Dreams and Daily Kos, more at Mediagazer »

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:

Ten potential Democratic candidates for 2020 — Stunned Democrats are now forced to go back to the drawing board for the 2020 presidential election to field a candidate in a race that virtually all had assumed would be President Hillary Clinton — 's reelection.

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Outside the Beltway

Juan Williams / The Hill:
Where now for the Democrats? — What happens to Democrats in the Trump era?

Discussion: Politico and Real Clear Politics

John Bresnahan / Politico:
‘Devastating’ election for House Democrats triggers request to Pelosi

Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY, Townhall.com and Independent Journal Review

Jonathan Martin / New York Times: Pulling Democrats Back to 'It's the Economy, Stupid'

Fatima Hussein / Indianapolis Star:

What's Mike Pence hiding in his emails? — Mike Pence wants his communications limited from public access. Experts say this sets a “dangerous precedent.” — Now that the presidential campaign and most of the furor over Hillary Clinton's email scandal are behind us …

Discussion: Law News, alan.com, Politico, Politicus USA, Raw Story, The Week and New Century Times

Lesley Stahl / CBS News:

President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes — What can we expect from a Trump presidency? 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl finds some of his campaign issues were not meant to be taken literally, but as opening bids for negotiation — The following script is from “The 45th President,” which aired on Nov. 13, 2016.

Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Trump backs off promise of special prosecutor for Clinton

Discussion: Independent Journal Review, The Resurgent and RedState

Theodore Schleifer / CNN:

CNN's ‘Unprecedented’: Trump told Christie he didn't think he'd last past October 2015 — “They always had an understanding that the first one out would probably endorse the other,” the adviser said. — Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's February endorsement of Donald …

Discussion: Mendham-Chester, NJ Patch, Hot Air, Mediaite, RedState, The Week, TheBlaze and New York Post

Michael Nunez / Gizmodo:

Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash — It's no secret that Facebook has a fake news problem. Critics have accused the social network of allowing false and hoax news stories to run rampant, with some suggesting that Facebook contributed …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Business Insider, CNBC, Raw Story, Mashable, Guardian, The Week and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, more at Mediagazer »

Susan Page / USA Today:

Sanders backs Trump protests, questions Electoral College — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the surprisingly strong challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination, sat down Sunday with USA TODAY's Capital Download to talk about last week's election stunner, the future of the Democratic Party …

Discussion: RT, Advocate, Washington Post, Washington Free Beacon, Hot Air, CNBC and Politico

Clara Jeffery / Mother Jones:
Van Jones: “Hope for the Best, Expect and Prepare for the Worst”

Discussion: Raw Story

Julieta Chiquillo / Dallas Morning News:

A man got a free Veterans Day meal at Chili's in Cedar Hill, then a manager took it away — For his free meal on Veterans Day, Ernest Walker picked the Chili's Grill and Bar in Cedar Hill. The 47-year-old sat at a table and ordered a burger while his service dog Barack waited by his side.

Discussion: RedState

globaltimes.cn:

Will Trump start a trade war against China? — In an interview with Bloomberg Television Friday, when questioned as to whether US President-elect Donald Trump will formally declare China a currency manipulator, Judy Shelton, one of Trump's economic advisers, said “he is someone going to carry through on what he says.”

Discussion: Reuters, Guardian, The Daily Caller, New York Times, Joe.My.God. and The Verge

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Apple iPhones could be hit if Trump imposes a 45 percent tariff on China exports, Beijing warns

Discussion: TheBlaze and Infowars

Jill Lawrence / USA Today:

The real voices that aren't heard: Jill Lawrence — Our numbers are legion, but where we live has cost us two presidents and a Supreme Court majority. — Poor, poor pitiful flyover country. Never getting the attention or respect or economic consideration it deserves. Never having a president to call its own.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

Matthew Yglesias / Vox:

President Trump and the Trump Organization are the biggest conflict of interest in US history — Trump is mixing business and government in a way that will allow for massive corruption. — Donald Trump ran for president promising to “drain the swamp” of corruption and self-dealing that he argued had taken root in Washington, DC.

Hadas Gold / Politico:

Gwen Ifill dead at age 61 — Gwen Ifill, the longtime news anchor who had served as a co-host of PBS's NewsHour and as moderator of “Washington Week,” has died fter a battle with cancer, PBS has confirmed. She was 61. — “I am very sad to tell you that our dear friend …

Discussion: Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »

Joe Concha / The Hill:

Megyn Kelly: Trump offered me gifts, hotel stays — Fox News host Megyn Kelly says Trump unsuccessfully tried to give her gifts during the presidential campaign in what she called his attempt to influence journalists by “work the refs.” — In her book, “Settle for More,” set for release on Tuesday …

Discussion: RedState and Joe.My.God.

Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:

Soros bands with donors to resist Trump, ‘take back power’ — George Soros and other rich liberals who spent tens of millions of dollars trying to elect Hillary Clinton are gathering in Washington for a three-day, closed door meeting to retool the big-money left to fight back against Donald Trump.