For the Record: Livin' in a Trumpster's paradise

There's no denying it now. In less than a month, Donald Trump will be president. And yes, his administration is going to be markedly different than Barack Obama's, especially when he finds the desk drawer where Obama keeps all the executive power. So what's in store? Everyone from environmentalists to states' rights advocates to the tech and gaming industries have already begun to lobby Trump to add their agenda to his, and we're still four weeks out from the inauguration.

No biting, no eye-gouging. Other than that, do what you want

The stock market is pretty fired up about the prospects of the Donald Trump administration, expecting lower tax rates and a significant reduction in government regulation. Maybe the end result will look like Ron Swanson's libertarian paradise, or maybe it'll be more like that alternate "Back to the Future 2" timeline where Biff Tannen ran everything.

Last week, it was the tech industry hoping for tax reform and fewer regulations. This week, the American Gaming Association has stepped up with their wish list. “We have a former casino owner elected as the next president of the United States,” said Geoff Freeman, the group's president and CEO. “We are better positioned than at any time to achieve our objectives.” The group wants Trump to end a broad ban on sports betting, reform immigration to ensure access to foreign-born labor for casinos and resorts and prevent the construction of a nuclear waste repository near Las Vegas.

It's not just the gaming industry and big business looking for fewer regulations. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has asked Trump to allow the state to test its residents for illegal drug use before granting public assistance. Walker also wants to see funds for health care and infrastructure to be given to states as block grants rather than federally controlled programs, and wants to block Syrian refugees from resettling in Wisconsin.

We're still nearly a month out from Inauguration Day ... expect more business groups to step up with their own requests in the coming weeks.

As it turns out, the secret ingredient was 'nothing'

Remember that late-breaking memo to Congress from FBI Director James Comey? The one that suggested new evidence against Hillary Clinton on Anthony Weiner's seized laptop? Randy Schoenberg does. The Los Angeles lawyer filed a Freedom of Information Act request to unseal the FBI warrant for Weiner's laptop, and says there wasn't anything that the FBI didn't already have from its investigation earlier this summer.

"I see nothing at all in the search warrant application that would give rise to probable cause, nothing that would make anyone suspect that there was anything on the laptop beyond what the FBI had already searched and determined not to be evidence of a crime, nothing to suggest that there would be anything other than routine correspondence between" Clinton and Abedin, Schoenberg said in an email to Paste BN. The FBI didn't return calls seeking comment. Team Clinton had comments, though.

Dems: Obama's great because of all the things he did. 
GOP: Obama's terrible, same reason

Americans agree: The Affordable Care Act was the absolute best/worst thing President Obama accomplished during his eight years in office. According to a Paste BN/Suffolk University poll of 1,000 registered voters, 24% said Obama's health care initiative was his greatest achievement, narrowly edging out the recovery from the Great Recession at 22%. Meanwhile, 27% said the program was his biggest failure, nearly doubling the next-highest result (wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, 15%).

Overall, Americans said they liked Obama, but they didn't LIKE like him. He leaves office with a 55%-40% favorability split, which puts him above Trump's current numbers (41% favorable, 46% unfavorable). One-third of respondents said he'll be remembered as a good president, one-fourth say he'll be remembered as fair, and another one-fourth say he'll be remembered as a failed president. Only 18% said he'd be remembered as great.

More from the Paste BN Network

• 'Murdered in the streets': Trump, other world leaders sound off on Germany (Paste BN)
• Man kills UPS driver in Walmart parking lot said he thought he killed Trump (Ithaca Journal)
• The stock market's Trump-inspired rally could challenge the rally record currently held by ... yikes, Hoover (Paste BN Money)
• Ethanol mandates could disappear under Trump administration (The Des Moines Register)
• In its special report last week, the House Freedom Caucus liberated a whole bunch of text from the clutches of its original authors (Paste BN)
• The million-dollar man always gets his way (Paste BN)
• GOP governors from blue states are in for a fun couple of years (Burlington Free Press)

Just stay on 'bargaining' forever if that's your happy place

"Electors' remorse" almost sounds like a thing, like it's buried in one of the more obscure clauses. Next up: Rewriting the rules of math before Congress counts the votes on Jan. 6.