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7 Republican politicians who were very upset when a Congresswoman used a curse word and silent when a Congressman openly embraced white supremacy

@GOPLeader
@RepBryne
@Jim_Jordan
@RepLeeZeldin
@mittromney
@realdonaldtrump
@SteveScalise

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@GOPLeader @Jim_Jordan @RepLeeZeldin @MittRomney @realDonaldTrump @SteveScalise Steve King won his 2016 election by 20 points.

Last year he won by 3 points.

He just drew a Republican challenger for the primary.

For comprehensive coverage of King and his role in the GOP (plus lots of other stuff) sign up for my newsletter at popular.info
UPDATE: Scalise and McCarthy have now issued statements condemning King’s comments
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Judd Legum
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1. There is a lot of focus on the damage Trump is doing to the country and the world.

But, as folks pay attention to that, there is an opportunity cost as we ignore larger systemic problems

Exhibit 1: The accelerating concentration of wealth worldwide

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2. The stats from the new OxFam report are stunning.

In 2018, just 26 people owned as much wealth as the 3.8 BILLION PEOPLE who make up the poorest half of humanity

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3. In 2018, the world's billionaires got $900 billion richer.

The poorest half of humanity saw their wealth DECREASE by 11%.

The entire health budget of Ethiopia, a country over over 100 million, is equal to 1% of Jeff Bezos' wealth

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Judd Legum
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1. After being banned from entering the U.S. for 12 years, this man showed up at the Trump Hotel last Thursday.

The previously untold story of how he got there illustrates how you can buy influence in Trump's Washington.

Let's go.

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2. You might have heard of Atiku Abubakar, the former vice president of Nigeria, because the FBI alleged he demanded a $500K bribe from former Rep William Jefferson. That was the guy with cash in his freezer who is currently serving a 13 year jail sentence popular.info/p/what-does-a-…
3. Abubakar was also featured in a 2010 Senate report called "KEEPING FOREIGN CORRUPTION OUT OF THE UNITED STATES." It detailed how Abubakar funneled $40 million in "suspect funds" into the U.S.

Siemens admitted to sending a $1.7 million bribe

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Judd Legum
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1. Some perspective on the BuzzFeed controversy

The central claim in BuzzFeed's story that Mueller disputes is this: Cohen "told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie"

Mueller says Buzzfeed's "description" is "not accurate"
2. We know Cohen talked to Mueller's office and we know they discussed Cohen's decision to lie to Congress about when the pursuit of Trump's Moscow ended.

But what did Cohen say?

This isn't a mystery. There is a transcript. Sometime soon, the transcript should be released.
3. There is clearly some ambiguity about what Cohen told Congress. His lawyer wrote at one point that Cohen lied about the Moscow project "in accordance with Client-1’s directives" (Client-1 is Trump)

But in his allocation to the court, Cohen did not say he was directed by Trump
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