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The best journalists, regulators, prosecutors are not afraid of looking dumb and asking stupid questions. Don’t have foolish pride. Ask until you understand what the subject is saying!

I can’t emphasize this enough.
Whenever I am afraid to ask a question for looking stupid, which is often, I say to myself: That’s pride fucking with you.

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I don’t suggest this is easy, though.

The most terrifying phrase in the English language, at least to me, is, “I *still* don’t understand.”
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Wow, this is a total weaponization of the DOJ against Trump antagonists happening right before our eyes:

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In keeping with the possible charging of McCabe, the hounding of Bruce Ohr, the IG report on Comey, etc.

Two and a half years in, Trump and his acolytes are figuring out how to use the apparatus of the state to reward friends & punish enemies. A direct attack on the rule of law.
Always seemed to me the Antitrust division was a great vehicle for weaponization of the state. The investigations strike at corporations & whole sectors (controlled by the wealthy & influential); they are incredibly time consuming & expensive; they are by their nature opaque.
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Comes the news that Bernard Arnault joins the exclusive $100 billion worth club! Congrats to him! Here's a story about suspicious securities transactions and journalism. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Back in 2001, LVMH, which was controlled by Arnault, mysteriously acquired a significant stake in Bouygues, a French telecom company. Bouygues stock had been collapsing in the wake of the global stock market bubble bust.
Analysts and investors were upset because you may have noticed that LVMH is (and was then) a luxury goods company, not a telecom company.

Oh, also, Arnault controlled some opaque personal companies that were selling Bouygues stock -- at around the same time!
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Yet another failed Trump Org project, this time in Uruguay. @JesseDrucker has details. Man oh man those Trumpees must just be lousy at business. Or are they? Here’s a theory of failure. nytimes.com/2019/06/02/bus…
Drucker found that like other Trump projects, it has dubious partners and the condos are being snapped up by some real sweeties.
Add this name to other failures. Or “failures”: Panama (detailed by @hvogell, @AndreaWNYC, @Meg_Cramer here: features.propublica.org/trump-inc-podc…), Baku, Trump Soho, Vancouver, Baja, Toronto, etc. etc.
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