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I award footnote 23 no points, and I’d like to see whoever thought they could get away with it in my office. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Under this logic, the president could open a booth on Pennsylvania Ave to accept bribes, people under federal investigation could stop by with a briefcase full of cash, and he could order their investigations closed—all without incurring any criminal liability for himself.
He could call it the Trump Hotel.
Not a fan of footnote 48.
Footnote 53 is a howler even before you see the offhand answer that purportedly supports its premise. And did anyone proofread this?
hahahaha
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Kind of hilariously the Associated Press has been sending Erik Wemple factually false statements about its fact check tweet all day.
(The parties *had* found common ground, which is why the senate passed its funding bills with a voice vote late last year. Then Trump panicked and fled the agreement.)
(Also, as we all know but it’s impolite to acknowledge, the tweet was intended to express something much more meatheaded)
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This misrepresents Bari Weiss’s column as well as the New York Times subscribers and readers who have criticized it.
poynter.org/ethics-trust/2…
Weiss’s column isn’t a travelogue about why she recommends Australian hotels to other tourists. It’s a disquisition on Australian society commending it as somehow uniquely free of the ills of the modern world, and it’s ignorant of what happened in Australia while she was there.
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This also needs context. More people are harmed by a federal government shutdown than federal employees. Native American communities, in particular, are immediately adversely affected. As the shutdown continues, the harms expand and multiply throughout the country’s population.
There are businesses that rely on the federal government as a customer—contractors of all sorts and sizes—and as a landlord—e.g. vendors at national parks. People who own and work for those businesses are harmed by the interruption of their income.
Scientists missing their grant funds, journalists who can’t access public records, inventors who can’t get their patents, entrepreneurs who can’t get business licenses ... This bit of context is, in all likelihood, barely scratching the surface of harms flowing from the shutdown.
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In 1987, $15 million that DJT owed his father was secretly converted into an investment in DJT’s new project.
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"President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents...."
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A good result for Republicans, though not a huge surprise in a lean Rep. district. Still, this could have been a top race and it doesn't look like one.
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