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tgards79

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Mon Dec 3, 2018, 11:18 AM Dec 2018

BTRTN: When Donald Trump Became "Individual 1"

The BTRTN November, 2018 Month in Review, a month chock full of crises, but ultimately may be known to history for only one thing:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2018/12/btrtn-when-donald-trump-became.html

"November was an astonishingly full month, crammed with comings and goings, inflection points and crises galore, from the midterms to the Mideast, the environment, gun violence, immigration, freedom of the press, the domestic and global economy and even threats of war.

Image result for individual 1The month began with an underqualified sycophant, Matthew Whitaker, beginning his tenure as Attorney General, and ended with the death of perhaps our most qualified president, and one of the most dignified, George H. W. Bush. The contrast between that gentleman and statesman, our 41st president, and the man who installed Whitaker as AG, our 45th, could not be sharper.

And yet through all of this, history may record the month simply as the time when President Trump moved firmly into the crosshairs of the Mueller investigation and became, ominously, “Individual 1.” We’ll see if a smoking gun emerges, but certainly enough smoke is billowing at this point to ensure a fire is raging. That fire is epitomized by a simple query: if there was no crime to begin with, why have so many Trump officials lied about their ties to Russia?"

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