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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Trump team prepares dramatic cuts  —  is ready to take an ax to government spending.  —  Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday's presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
4 Recent Examples Show Why No One Trusts Media Coverage Of Trump  —  One may have hoped that the media would respond to their 2016 failures and resulting lack of credibility by reforming.  Instead, it seems that many in political media are quadrupling down on the mistakes that served …
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New York Times:
‘Learning Curve’ as Rick Perry Pursues a Job He Initially Misunderstood  —  WASHINGTON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump offered Rick Perry the job of energy secretary five weeks ago, Mr. Perry gladly accepted, believing he was taking on a role as a global ambassador for the American oil …
Jesse Singal / New York Magazine:
The Times May Have Launched a False Rumor About Rick Perry  —  Yesterday, the New York Times posted a story by Coral Davenport and David Sanger about Donald Trump's energy secretary nominee, former Texas governor Rick Perry, that quickly went viral.  That's because the article …
Alex Griswold / Mediaite:
New York Times Faces Backlash After Sole Source Repudiates Anti-Rick Perry Story
Discussion: Politico and The Daily Caller
T. Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
That New York Times hit piece on Perry was unsubstantiated garbage
Discussion: Hot Air
Richard Johnson / Page Six:
Caitlyn Jenner is attending the inauguration  —  President-elect Donald Trump is being urged by some advisers to save at least one dance, as he celebrates his inauguration on Friday night, for a very special Republican lady — Caitlyn Jenner.  —  “It's a brilliant idea,” a member of the incoming administration told me.
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Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Spicer on Trump going to hotel: 'Shouldn't be a shocker'  —  President-elect Donald Trump's decision to spend time at his Washington, D.C., hotel does not represent a move to profit off the presidency and does not blur the lines between his business and his administration, incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday.
Reuters:
Ready for Day One: Trump poised to take executive actions
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Army: Manning to lose transgender benefits  —  The Army says former Pvt. Chelsea Manning will lose her military healthcare benefits following President Obama's commutation of her prison sentence.  —  “If Pvt. Manning is discharged with a dishonorable discharge, she will lose her entitlement to benefits …
Discussion: RedState and USA Today
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Holly Christodoulou / The Sun:
ASSANGE LATEST WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stands by offer to be extradited to US following Chelsea Manning release
Discussion: alan.com
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Chelsea Manning to lose transgender benefits with dishonorable discharge
Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE: Florida man charged with threatening to kill President-elect Trump at his inauguration on Twitter was a close family friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton  — Dominic Puopolo, 51, is being held without bail on charges of threatening harm against a public servant
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:   Hard-Luck Hillary Clinton's Second Case of the Inaugural Blues
Jonathan Turley / USA Today:   Trump is our president: Jonathan Turley
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Steven Mnuchin, Treasury Nominee, Failed to Disclose $100 Million in Assets  —  WASHINGTON — Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to be Treasury secretary, failed to disclose nearly $100 million of his assets on Senate Finance Committee disclosure documents and forgot …
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Lauren Pearle / ABC News:
Steve Mnuchin Failed to Reveal $100 Million in Assets, Links to Tax Haven Company
Discussion: Politico
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
Daughter of close Obama adviser will cover DOJ for CNN  —  More On:  —  CNN has tapped the daughter of President Obama's closest adviser to cover the Department of Justice, The Post has learned.  —  Laura Jarrett quietly joined the network in September as a reporter in the network's Washington bureau.
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CNN:
CNN Announces Washington Correspondent Assignments
Discussion: The Daily Caller
President Barack Obama / Blog Daily Listings RSS:
Thank You  —  Editor's note: President Obama sent this final message to the White House email list this morning.  —  My fellow Americans,  —  It's a long-standing tradition for the sitting president of the United States to leave a parting letter in the Oval Office for the American elected to take his or her place.
Lauren Effron / ABC News:
Ivanka Trump Says She Will Not Be Filling In as First Lady in Trump Administration  —  Ivanka Trump dispelled speculation that she would be filling in as a surrogate first lady or occupying the East Wing office of the White House, traditionally reserved for the president's wife.
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
CNN: Assassinating Trump Could Keep Obama Administration in Power  —  As the nation prepares for the peaceful transfer of power on Inauguration Day, CNN is dreaming up scenarios whereby the Obama administration can keep power if President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence …
Andrew Gomes / Honolulu Star-Advertiser:
Facebook's Zuckerberg sues to force land sales  —  When Facebook's co-founder Mark Zuckerberg paid around $100 million for 700 acres of rural beachfront land on Kauai two years ago to create what Forbes magazine described as a secluded family sanctuary, he actually acquired a not-so-secluded property.
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump: My Cabinet has ‘highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled’  —  President-elect Donald Trump bragged Thursday that his incoming Cabinet has “by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled.”  —  Trump was speaking at a congressional leadership luncheon held inside his Trump International Hotel …
Discussion: The Guardian
Bloomberg:
Russia Fears That Trump Won't Be Such a Great Deal After All  —  Top officials fret furor in U.S. over hacking could hurt thaw  —  Doubts about Trump hints that sanctions could be eased  —  Russia is giving Donald Trump the kind of fawning television coverage usually reserved for Vladimir Putin …
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Hearing derailed after senator suggests colleague needs Valium … Steven Mnuchin's confirmation hearing quickly went off the rails Thursday as Democrats and Republicans feuded over a GOP lawmaker's quip about giving antidepressants to the panel's top Democrat.  —  Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
At Dinner Honoring Mike Pence, Donald Trump Touches Many Bases  —  WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump, in a free-flowing speech Wednesday evening at a dinner honoring his running mate, Mike Pence, jabbed at his new Republican allies and his critics alike, questioned the ethics of …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's biggest whoppers … The Fact Checker started during the 2008 campaign and then went on hiatus for the first two years of President Obama's presidency before becoming a permanent Washington Post feature in 2011.  All told, we've fact-checked more than 250 statements by Obama.
Discussion: Althouse
Washington Post:
In video praising Trump, Jerusalem mayor says Obama ‘surrendered’ to radical Islam  —  JERUSALEM — The mayor of the city holy to three world religions delivered a message Thursday to outgoing President Obama: good riddance.  —  Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat released a video that disparages Obama …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Numbers / Pew Research Center:
On Eve of Inauguration, Americans Expect Nation's Deep Political Divisions to Persist  —  Trump a dominant factor in people's expectations for 2017  —  Ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as the nation's 45th president, the public sees a country deeply fractured along partisan lines.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Wendy R. Sherman / USA Today:
Women's March will send message to Trump: Wendy Sherman  —  We're here.  We're united.  We'll never stop fighting for women and against misogyny.  —  A day after Donald Trump is inaugurated, thousands of women will descend on Washington for a march — a time-honored tribute …
 
 
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Will Robinson / TIME:
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Republicans look to avoid YouTube moments in fight over Obamacare repeal
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Michael Kruse / Politico:
‘He Has This Deep Fear That He Is Not a Legitimate President’
Discussion: Scripting News
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Schumer grills Trump on ‘swamp cabinet’
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The End of the Beginning  —  Sic Transit the Transition
Lisa Lerer / Associated Press:
Even before taking office, Trump has changed the presidency
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Mark Deen / Bloomberg:
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Daron Acemoglu / Foreign Policy:
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CNN:
CNN/ORC Poll shows last-minute love for Obamacare
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
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Michael Crowley / Politico:
Trump's nuclear wake-up call
Discussion: The Week and Political Wire