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House Intel will call the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, to testify. thedailybeast.com/house-intel-wi…
1/3: On the Trump/Cohen tapes, Weisselberg, the CFO of the Trump Org, is referred to by Michael Cohen - who says Weisselberg was aware of LLCs being used to funnel payments to Stormy Daniels. Reupping my April, 2018, column on why Weisselberg matters:

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
2/3: Weisselberg has decades of history with the Trumps and knows most of the financial secrets. My column from last July about why he may be pivotal in Trump Org probes:

bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/ar…
3/3: Weisselberg’s immunity deal last August is a reminder that Trump investigations will be all about the money trail. And Weisselberg handled a lot of the Trump family’s money - for decades.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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On Bill Shine's short, troubled tenure overseeing the White House's communication efforts. My column on a disturbance in the Fox News-White House force: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
"The White House is an outsized meat grinder, beset by chaos, backstabbing and incompetence...Shine only had to consider how many people directly preceded him to get a sense of the adventure; Sean Spicer, Michael Dubke, Anthony Scaramucci (“Mooch” lasted 11 days) and Hope Hicks."
White House PR can't make everyone believe that "the president who causes a government shutdown, bungles health-care, craters fiscal sensibility, dances with Russia, traffics in racism, doesn’t read, doesn’t work hard and doesn’t care is something other" bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Tim O'Brien
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Bill Shine out at the White House
Shine has lots and lots of company in a White House that is chaos-prone and full of back-stabbing: President Trump’s “A Team” turnover rate is 65% as of March 1, 2019
brookings.edu/research/track…
The Shine Club:

"I'm going to surround myself only with the best and most serious people. We want top-of-the line professionals."
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Tim O'Brien
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Revisiting that time my lawyers asked President Trump under oath about an $18.3 million insurance payment he got for hurricane damage to Mar-a-Lago. He pocketed a chunk of that money and couldn’t remember how badly damaged his club actually was. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
When my attorney asked Trump during a 2007 deposition if he ever plowed his huge insurance payment back into Mar-a-Lago, he pointed out that “under the insurance plan you didn’t have to” even though “the hurricane really did tremendous damage.”

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
“What kind of damage specifically did you have to the property from these hurricanes?” my lawyer asked.

“I don’t remember that; I really don’t,” Trump replied. “They did appraisals.”

He said that Matt Calamari, a Trump Org exec, had all the answers
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