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29 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
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Glenn and I actually started out writing this Hunter article together, but he wanted to get deep into Burisma and media criticism and I wanted to focus on the China element, so we decided to write separate pieces. His piece was still in the edit process when all this blew up.
I was hopeful he’d be able to work out his differences on the piece with his editor and I’m still convinced that could have happened. This, as he says, has been brewing for a long time and was about more than just one story.
Meanwhile my piece is not terribly interesting as I have no new emails or anything, and have been rather distracted today
And also I still have to finish Deconstructed ugh
Nothing, I just felt like Burisma had been litigated to death and I didn’t wanna slide back into the muck of Ukrainian politics when the China angle had more potential for news

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The Park Avenue defender has logged on to...preach against elite mingling at social gatherings?
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