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struggle4progress

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Thu Nov 19, 2020, 11:54 AM Nov 2020

The president's guys

By Ben Terris
November 19, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST

... “Laura, I’m trying to speak to somebody!” yelled Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer who later went to jail and is now under house arrest, when reached by phone. “My God,” he said. “It’s unbelievable, it’s like my wife is 2 years old. That’s the problem with being locked up at home, you can’t escape.”

Carter Page’s exact whereabouts remain unknown. “That’s sort of the nature of being an international fugitive,” said Page, who is not an international fugitive, when reached by phone the day before the election ...

Anthony Scaramucci, the New York finance guy who lasted less than two weeks as a senior administration official before he was fired after being too candid about his machinations with a reporter, has embraced his Trump White House alumnus status, fashioning himself as a dial-a-quote for reporters looking for insight on the president’s behavior. Former “Apprentice” contestant and White House adviser Omarosa Manigault-Newman, too, has gone the route of Trump apologist-turned-Trumpologist. Sean Spicer, a longtime Republican hand who launched his brief tenure as press secretary by yelling at journalists for accurately reporting on the modest crowd size at Trump’s inauguration, had a cameo at the 2017 Emmys and competed on “Dancing With the Stars,” doing salsa to the Spice Girls in a shirt that resembled a gigantic piece of neon kelp ...

Parnas and his partner, Igor Fruman, were detained at Dulles Airport while holding one-way tickets to Germany, and charged with planning to direct funds from a Russian citizen to U.S. politicians. Today Parnas is under house arrest, only allowed out to go to the store or walk the dog. He’s got three children at home, the youngest still in diapers, which he is changing for the first time in his parenthood. And with plenty of time to think about it, he’s come to regret his time as a Trump Guy ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-guys-giuliani-scaramucci-lewandoski-omarosa-parnas-/2020/11/18/8ecc78f2-25b3-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html

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