Crash: Seventy-six people died overnight in the crash of a charter plane outside Medellin, Colombia that was carrying a Brazilian soccer team, its staff, and journalists following the team. Five or six people were reported to have survived the crash.

The Chapecoense de Brasil soccer team was having a dream season and was flying to play in the finals of a major tournament. The chairman of the team’s board told reporters, “Before boarding, they said they were seeking to turn their dream into reality. This morning, that dream is over.”

Rum and Coca Cola: Donald Trump threatened via Twitter that he might roll back President Obama’s improved relations with Cuba. “If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal,” Trump said.

Trump has yet to name a Secretary of State to give him guidance on foreign policy. He spent an hour yesterday with retired Gen. David Petraeus, who was also director of the CIA until he was forced out in a sex scandal.

 MSNBC reports that Trump is “furious” that his close aide Kellyanne Conway stepped out of line and publicly criticized the possible choice of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who was dismissive of Trump throughout the campaign. MSNBC reports that insiders accuse Conway of “pushing her own agenda.” She says it’s not true.

The Post-Truth President: Trump seems to have derived his claim that millions of people voted illegally from the fake news site InfoWars, and Gregg Phillips of VoteFraud.org who tweeted, “We have verified more than three million votes cast by non-citizens.”

That would be quite an investigatory feat to accomplish in 20 days.

Paul Joseph Watson, picked up the story for InfoWars, writing, “Virtually all of the votes cast by 3 million illegal immigrants are likely to have been for Hillary Clinton, meaning Trump might have won the popular vote when this number is taken into account.”

To give you an idea of what InfoWars is, they have published a story denying that the 2012 Sandy Hook School massacre ever took place.

There is no proof of what they say about the presidential vote or of the president-elect’s claim that millions voted illegally.

The Numbers: With election results still coming in, the State of Michigan was officially called in favor of Donald Trump yesterday, bringing his Electoral College total to 306 against Hillary Clinton’s 232. Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2.3 million.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein yesterday filed a lawsuit to force a recount in Pennsylvania, but the onus of proof is on her. She has to provide evidence of probable election fraud.

By Appointment: Trump has picked one of Obamacare’s biggest critics to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Rep. Tom Price, an orthopedic surgeon from the Atlanta area, would presumably have a major hand in dismantling President Obama’s healthcare reform.

Nation: Ohio State University went into an “active shooter” lockdown yesterday during an incident in which 11 people were injured and the suspect was killed by the police. Police say a man rammed a car into a group of people, then got out and stabbed several victims. No gun was found. The assailant has been identified as an OSU student, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a legal permanent resident of the US originally from Somalia. — Dylann Roof, the 22-year-old man accused of murdering eight black parishioners in a Charleston, SC church last year, says he will represent himself in court. He’ll be allowed to question his surviving victims. — Delta Airlines has banned for life a loudmouth Trump supporter who stood in the aisle challenging other passengers to say that had voted for Hillary Clinton. Clearly he was one of the deplorables.

Tweeter-in-Chief: Here’s what Donald Trump was thinking about at 3:55 this morning. “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!”

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