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This is one possible explanation for why the White House transcript & video from Helsinki doesn’t include Putin saying he wanted Trump to win.

But Putin really did say that in Helsinki...

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washingtonpost.com/news/politics/…
...and the White House transcript & video still does leave it out.

WaPo now says it has updated its own transcript. Will the White House?

After more than a week of reporting on the bad transcript (see link below)...

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theatlantic.com/international/…
(1): White House has let it stand uncorrected, and

(2): POTUS now asserts that Putin wants *Dems* to win, not him.

I love WaPo with the heat of 1000 suns, but nothing here from WaPo disproves our report.

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A very interesting new development today courtesy of this American Oversight FOIA request.

Brian Benczkowski led the "landing team" for the Trump transition at the Dept of Justice.

Then, right after the transition, he was hired by Alfa Bank specifically on the controversy...
over those mysterious computer communications during the campaign between Russia-based servers for Alfa Bank, and servers for the Trump Org.

That was a red flag for some Senators when Benczkowski was then nominated by Trump to head the Criminal Division at DOJ.
Benczkowski said at his hearings that he would recuse himself at DOJ from anything involving Alfa Bank, but he would *not* commit to recuse himself from the Mueller investigation more broadly.

He was confirmed as Assistant Attorney General.

But now today...
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Blunt, angry @MiamiHerald editorial calling for resignation of Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta after the shattering expose from @jkbjournalist on Acosta's role in the Jeffrey Epstein child rape case...
"These abused women, who had turned to the judicial system for recourse, are owed an explanation from Acosta. He cut Epstein a huge and unmerited break...
"Maybe Acosta can include his reasoning in his resignation letter as U.S. Labor Secretary, which he should submit immediately to President Trump."

miamiherald.com/opinion/editor…
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Did you see that A-Block we did a few months ago about a long-forgotten book called "Night at Camp David"?

It was right after the anonymous NYT Op-Ed that claimed Trump was nuts enough that White House staff were constructively (?) sabotaging him for the good of the country...
Here's a link to that A-block:

msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/…
The basic idea was that an obscure 1965 political thriller (written by Fletcher Knebel, the author of Seven Days in May) had an eerily similar premise.

This was subhead on the cover of the book: "What Would Happen if the President of the U.S.A. Went Stark Raving Mad?"
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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