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“President-elect Trump is entering office with a wider array of investments and potential conflicts of interest than was seen during his first term, setting the stage for greater scrutiny of his dealings,” The Hill reports.
“Trump generally has the same empire of hotels and real estate holdings from the first term that sparked criticism that foreign governments could seek to influence him through his business ties.”

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) actually used to boast about being “pro trans,” but is now in the midst of a tirade—including repeatedly calling transgender people “mentally ill,” the Daily Beast reports.

President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar” claimed that he will throw the mayor of Denver, Colorado in prison if his city resists Trump’s efforts to deport millions of immigrants from the United States, the Daily Beast reports.
Said Tom Homan: “Me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing: he’s willing to go to jail, I’m willing to put him in jail.”

“Bird flu, a virus that can also affect humans, has been discovered in a batch of raw milk sold in California store refrigerators,” the Washington Post reports.
“While there have been no reported illnesses in this most recent case, it comes just a few days after a child tested positive for bird flu for the first time in U.S. history.”

“The bottom line is this: Republicans are very motivated by Donald Trump’s win and, compared to eight years ago, Democrats are just really, really, tired. They have just given up.”
— Polling analyst Harry Enten, on CNN.

“The pro-Putin, far-right politician who surprisingly won the first round of Romania’s presidential elections on Sunday had recently gone viral on social media without pollsters registering his surge,” the Financial Times reports.

Top campaign aides to Kamala Harris — Jen O’Malley Dillon, David Plouffe, Quentin Fulks and Stephanie Cutter — went on Pod Save America to talk about their mistakes.

Stephen Collinson: “Special counsel Jack Smith set out to prove in the United States of America v. Donald Trump that even presidents are not above the law.”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Thus the Harris/Biden Administration ends, not with a bang but with the whir of a shredder.