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1. Congress ALMOST blocked the Trump administration's efforts to roll back sanctions on companies partially-owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska

But they came up 3 votes short in the Senate

Why?

Let's follow the money

popular.info/p/mnuchins-rus…
2. Another major owner of these Russian aluminum firms is a U.S. citizen, billionaire Len Blavatnik.

Blavatnik is a major GOP donor. In particular he's donated millions to PACs controlled by Mitch McConnell and 800K to Lindsay Graham

popular.info/p/mnuchins-rus…
3. McConnell and Graham cast critical votes AGAINST maintaining the sanctions -- a decision likely worth hundreds of millions to Blavatnik

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1. Some updates on the major retailers of the National Enquirer that I highlighted in popular.info yesterday.

75% of sales come from chain stores.

The two biggest @Walmart (23%) and @Kroger (10%) have not gotten back to me

popular.info/p/enquiring-mi…
@Walmart @kroger 2. @FoodLion got back to me and said it was going to continue to sell the National Enquirer despite AMI's alleged criminal activity
3. Barnes and Noble (@BNBuzz) told me that it no longer sells the National Enquirer in stores. (It does offer electronic subscriptions through it's Nook ereader.)
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Judd Legum
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1. We spent a lot of time yesterday talking about Ilhan Omar and anti-Semitic tropes.

Can we spend 2 minutes talking about Duncan Hunter, who is still a Congressman because of his brazenly bigoted anti-Muslim smear campaign against his opponent?

popular.info/p/omar-versus-…
2. Hunter ran a TV ad claiming his Dem opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, was trying to infiltrate the gov’t on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood so he could give national security secrets to terrorists

Not that it matters, but Campaign-Najjar is a Christian popular.info/p/omar-versus-…
3. As far as I can tell, Kevin McCarthy, who postured yesterday as a paragon of religious tolerance, never said anything about Hunter’s vile attacks.

This isn’t about religious tolerance for the GOP. It’s political opportunism.

popular.info/p/omar-versus-…
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1. The National Enquirer admitted to participating in an illegal scheme to pay off women to help Trump get elected.

Then it threatened to publish Jeff Bezos' dick pics.

WTF is the National Enquirer still doing in checkout aisles across the country?

popular.info/p/enquiring-mi…
2. It's not a magazine. It's, at best, a gonzo political operation. It may be a criminal enterprise.

The National Enquirer exists because chains promote it. 75% of sales come from major chains.

@Walmart alone accounts for 23% of sales. @kroger is 10%

popular.info/p/enquiring-mi…
3. Along with @Walmart and @kroger, other top retailers of the National Enquirer:

@GiantFood
@FoodLion
@Albertsons
@Safeway
@BNBuzz (Barnes and Noble)
@CVSHealth
@Hudson_News
@Publix
@Walgreens

These companies are enabling the National Enquirer.

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