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The national emergency is in the White House: Trump’s Rose Garden speech and his decades of self-aggrandizement are more closely related than you might think. He’s been doing this for a long time. My column today: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
”It was inevitable that Trump would refuse to be stymied by Congress because...his border-wall machinations are only partially about appeasing conservative pundits or his political base; for the most part, they’re about appeasing his sense of himself.”
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
"The only thing bad about it is I get some unsophisticated press that says, ‘Trump went into bankruptcy.’ Somehow the B-word [bankruptcy] never caught on very well in this country. But the smartest people in the country call me and say, ‘How the fuck did you pull that off?’”
“If I’m president, there won’t be stupid deals anymore,” Trump said during one of the Republican debates in early 2016. “We will win on everything we do.”
”Trump is cornered and outmaneuvered, so we’re likely to get more of the same as he continues to test the Constitution and the boundaries of presidential authority: constant spinning about winning, even when the losses are apparent.”

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Manafort sentencing memo, here: documentcloud.org/documents/5747…
Those Manafort duped, per the sentencing memo, included “Members of Congress, and members of the executive branch of the United States government."
“For over a decade, Manafort repeatedly and brazenly violated the law. His crimes continued up through the time he was first indicted in Oct. 2017 and remarkably went unabated even after indictment.”
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Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan, offering information about possible irregularities within the president’s family business and about a donor to the inaugural committee. nyti.ms/2GEXqNG?smid=n…
“The prosecutors recently sought to interview Trump Organization executives, according to a person briefed on the request, which was previously reported by CNN. The nature of the questions they were seeking to ask was not known.”
To the extent that Cohen brings prosecutors closer to Allen Weisselberg and Jason Greenblatt, it gets even more interesting:
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“Rich donors and companies that had assumed Trump had no chance of winning saw the inaugural as a last-chance opportunity to be generous, according to a person familiar with the fundraising effort.” Via ⁦@CalebMelby⁩ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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‘What did Rick Gates have to do with PIC?’’ staffers wrote in a late January draft. ‘[Need answer.]’”
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