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When the president uses his Twitter feed to advertise the businesses that have been a massive financial conflict of interest from the moment he won the election — and then says it’s helpful diplomatically for the U.S.:
“Trump International is a reminder that Trump still hasn’t fulfilled the grandiose economic-development and job-creation promises he made when he convinced locals to bend environmental rules so he could build a pair of major golf courses in Aberdeenshire” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Where did President Trump and the Trump Organization get the money to buy Turnberry and fund the rest of the family’s golfing spree in Scotland? bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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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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