It's funny, because when I read that the White House had opened an investigation into this, I almost posted that the problem isn't the corruption, it's the fact that Trump wasn't in on it. As always, Ubu Roi is the ur-text of the second Trump administration.

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Sure, but then Trump ripped off his crypto rubes for $4.7B. www.citizen.org/article/dona...

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👇 (more broadly the Sullivan thing is more trolling than dirty trick. and it’s commonplace.)

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Essentially every word of this is a lie, but the true part is "we," and it's noteworthy too. During the era of post-Watergate norms, presidents and vice-presidents wouldn't have described DOJ prosecutorial decisions as decisions "we" were making— because they weren't!

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There was a moment in the 1990s when Newt Gingrich was sneering about public funding for the arts and said something like "Arthur Miller didn't need government money!" and then Arthur Miller wrote an op-ed noting that he had, in fact, been saved in the Depression by Federal Writers Project.

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