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Charles Sykes, for 25 years a huge part of the conservative movement, wrote this week's gutting cover story on Trump and the GOP for Newsweek. It's a doozy ...

One of the legendary founders of the hip-hop form, who with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was among the first rappers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, stands accused of knifing a homeless man to death in the middle of a busy NYC street because he became “infuriated” when he thought the guy was “hitting on him.”

He also claimed he feared the man would rob him. Keep reading for this and more of the day's hot links, about Lady Gaga, Jazz Jennings, Tom Wopat, Sean Spicer and more ...

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ABOVE: How Trump's outrageous business conflicts of interest are already endangering America.

Secretary of State-to-be Rex Tillerson is so tight with Putin, Russia's already praised Trump's pick.

Tillerson's so lousy with Russia, his pick such a huge F.U., that even the Republican Senate might not fall in line.

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Watch these guys (ABOVE) hook up, face a problem and then — find out your PrEP IQ.

He seems nice: 

 

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Kylie Minogue gives her most out-there, gayest Xmas show — by far! 

WOW! Thank you SO much to the entire #KylieChristmas team, the band, the dancers, the choir, the orchestra, and of course all of YOU!! 🎄👸🏼 pic.twitter.com/ZU7TVtmkL0

— kylie minogue (@kylieminogue) December 10, 2016

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It's already been well-established that Donald Trump trucked with dictators and despots, and admires tyrants like Vladimir Putin. He views totalitarianism as strength in leadership.

Now, Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald is exposing Trump's ties to Fidel Castro. It's a friendly working relationship at least some people, especially in Florida, might find troubling. 

It was also blatantly illegal, since his business dealings in Cuba were in defiance of U.S. law:

A company controlled by Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, secretly conducted business in Communist Cuba during Fidel Castro’s presidency despite strict American trade bans that made such undertakings illegal, according to interviews with former Trump executives, internal company records and court filings.

Documents show that the Trump company spent a minimum of $68,000 for its 1998 foray into Cuba at a time when the corporate expenditure of even a penny in the Caribbean country was prohibited without U.S. government approval. But the company did not spend the money directly. Instead, with Trump’s knowledge, executives funneled the cash for the Cuba trip through an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corp. Once the business consultants traveled to the island and incurred the expenses for the venture, Seven Arrows instructed senior officers with Trump’s company—then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts—how to make it appear legal by linking it after the fact to a charitable effort.

The payment by Trump Hotels came just before the New York business mogul launched his first bid for the White House, seeking the nomination of the Reform Party. On his first day of the campaign, he traveled to Miami, where he spoke to a group of Cuban-Americans, a critical voting bloc in the swing state. Trump vowed to maintain the embargo and never spend his or his companies’ money in Cuba until Fidel Castro was removed from power.

There's plenty of impeachable stuff on Trump already waiting or set in motion. He wins, it's President Pence within a year.

Vid after the jump ...