Wake Up Call: Trump Picks Jones Day Partner as Counsel, Faces Heat Over ‘Conflicts’

• With several potential business conflicts of interest hanging over his presidency, Trump picked Donald F. McGahn of Jones Day as his White House counsel. McGahn, Trump’s campaign counsel, is a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission. ( Bloomberg )

• If Trump won’t sell his companies and take other action to get rid of potential conflicts, the Electoral College should refuse to make him president, top ethics lawyers for Presidents Barrack Obama and George W. Bush say. ( ThinkProgress )

• After Hillary Clinton joined a call for a recount of presidential election votes in three states, Trump claimed that he would ...