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Barr letter to Berman asserts that he & Berman had been in discussions about promotion to another job, SEC chair maybe.

But of course Berman would have remembered that Barr & Trump played this same trick before. 1/x
To clear out the inconvenient US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie Liu, Trump offered a promotion to a big job at Treasury. Once Liu resigned, the promotion was yanked away - on grounds that Liu was insufficiently loyal to Trump. 2/x
I wrote today that the trick played on Liu by Barr and Trump can be used only so often before the targets get wise. Barr tried it one time more than that. END
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Trump had advance information of a Russian intelligence operation against his election opponent. He actively worked to benefit from that Russian intelligence operation. What's the word I'm looking for to describe that? buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…
Also by the way, who was in charge of redacting the Mueller report in such a way as to conceal its most important findings? And who on earth allowed that concealment to succeed so long?
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The Trump campaign decision to bump its Tulsa rally from June 19 to June 20 is so fascinatingly revealing ... 1/x
1) Those who complained about the June 19 rally date were complaining that there was something inconsistent about a Trump rally on an anniversary of Emancipation. You wouldn't expect Trump to agree to that - but he did!
2) Why would a presidency that never admits error, never accepts responsibility, never apologizes for anything - why would it back down in the face of complaints about a June 19 event?
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Two charts that explain why the US military is uncongenial territory for Trumpism.

1) The force as a whole depends heavily on the contributions of ethnic minorities
2) The officer corps is very highly education: 4 in 10 active duty officers have an advanced degree beyond a BA
Highly educated elites in a context of rising ethnic diversity: the US military looks a lot like the dynamic knowledge centers at the core of the US economy.
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