The #TrumpCult was a long time in the making, and it isn't going away no matter what #Biden wishes for. Several important new books by @Milbank, @MarkLeibovich, @nicolehemmer, and @sbg1 and @peterbakernyt explain why:
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Michael Hirsh
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Senior correspondent at Foreign Policy. Author of Capital Offense: How Washington's Wise Men Turned America's Future over to Wall Street..Newsweek, Politico Mag
- Daily Beast notes that after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov returned home from his visit with Trump--in which he was photographed hovering over Trump in the Oval Office--"TV channel Rossiya 1 aired a segment entitled “Puppet Master and ‘Agent.'’'
- #PutinsWar is a bigger crisis than Hungary '56, Czech '68, Saddam's Kuwait invasion, and Milosevic's genocide, among others. Here's why:
- But only one of them is running for president....Kelly Ayotte says she wouldn’t want her daughter in a room with Donald Trump or Bill Clinton bos.gl/JSbNDGl
- 'The war could have been over pretty quickly,' the CIA chief at Tora Bora told me. Inside America's 15 yr disaster
- The Scots' cursing out of Trump is nothing less than poetry. Why can't we swear like this?
- Some hard facts must be faced: #Netanyahu has spent his career denying #Palestinians any rights and prospects for statehood--even buiilding up #Hamas at the expense of the Palestinian Authority--while wooing the Arab states. Now it's blown up in his face:
- Matt Taibbi uncovers a genuine smoking gun in the biggest financial fraud in history(for which NO ONE has yet paid): rollingstone.com/politics/news/…
- Replying to @arappeport and @maggieNYTHis 1994 law sent millions to jail for drug offenses...
- ok, let's have a dumb and dumber contest. i nominate @KatrinaPierson for dumbest thing said in the campaign so far: politico.com/story/2016/08/…
- Can Comey order the cancellation of those 40 million early votes that have been cast since his original misleading letter? No, he can't.
- It's time to ask honestly if it's possible to support Trump and still be a decent, normal, intelligent human being: nytimes.com/2016/07/31/us/…
- Building on some great reporting by @TimOBrien and others, my deep dive into how Russian and former Soviet republic money rescued Trump's business: foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/21/how…
- All TV cable channels are showing Trump's empty podium as they wait for him to confirm Obama is American--cable is an incurable abomination.
