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There’s a ritual for ex-West Wingers; let’s call it the “it-was-sometimes-really-horrible-working-in-the-Trump-White-House-but-I-decided-to-continue-debasing-myself-anyway-because-there-were-things-I-wanted-that-made-it-worth-selling-my-soul” sacrament. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
“Lest it’s lost on anyone by now, Donald Trump is not some Peter Drucker-style organisational guru. He doesn’t have a management “theory” at all...and anyone using consultantspeak to parse Trumpian chaos, staff turnover and bumbling is kidding themselves.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
In a dysfunctional White House overseen by a president who cares more about talking points than policy, Stephen Miller outlasted competitors and will steer President Trump’s already ruthless immigration policy even more directly than he has in the past. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Tim O'Brien
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Donald Trump says he's been "the most transparent president" ever. His lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Capital One tells us the opposite. My column on Trump's most recent battle with Congress: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
"Of course, politics are at work here. But principles are at stake as well. How this plays out will inform whether non-partisan and non-ideological values such as good government, ethical management, and, yes, transparency have institutional protection in the future."
"Washington’s gladiators are moving beyond Mueller’s investigation of criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice and into equally, if not even more crucial, questions about whether the Oval Office and policy-making are captives of Trump’s own greed and business relationships"
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“It’s easy to see why Barr ignored Mueller’s 21 pages pondering presidential immunity, executive authority, the separation of powers and the Constitution. It would have made things complicated. Political errand boys know that black-and-white sells.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
“While uncovering and proving intent is an elusive thing in criminal investigations, Mueller records multiple instances in which Trump’s intentions seem obvious.” bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Is Julian Assange a journalist? A publisher? A hacker? A criminal? All of those? bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
It’s complicated. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Assange may be “a conscientious objector, engaging in a long, honorable tradition of civil disobedience. He may even have acted at times as only a publisher. If he became a hacker and broke the law, though, he was no longer a journalist or just a messenger. He was a criminal.”
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Trump pushed chief of staff Kelly out, thinking he had Nick Ayers lined up to replace him. But news reports this afternoon indicate that Ayers, the 36-y/o chief of staff to VP Pence, said no thanks
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1) I think she made the gesture on purpose.

2) It doesn’t really matter because:

3) Working for the Trump White House is, all by itself, a far more overt white supremacist gesture.
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Do we care about ALL people, or do we care about only SOME people?

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