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Michael Hirsh
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Michael Hirsh
@michaelphirsh
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
Washington, D.C.
informingthe99percent.blogspot.com
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Sep 4, 2022
    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:
    foreignpolicy.com
    Why Trumpism Will Endure
    The former U.S. president took control of a party that had already destroyed itself, several new books contend, and his malign influence will long survive…
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Dec 16, 2019
    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.'’'
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    Why Putin Is Smiling
    From foreignpolicy.com
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Feb 24, 2022
    #PutinsWar is a bigger crisis than Hungary '56, Czech '68, Saddam's Kuwait invasion, and Milosevic's genocide, among others. Here's why:
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    Why Putin’s War Is the West’s Biggest Test Since World War II
    From foreignpolicy.com
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Nov 2, 2016
    But only one of them is running for president....
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    The Boston Globe
    @BostonGlobe
    Nov 2, 2016
    Kelly Ayotte says she wouldn’t want her daughter in a room with Donald Trump or Bill Clinton bos.gl/JSbNDGl
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Sep 11, 2016
    'The war could have been over pretty quickly,' the CIA chief at Tora Bora told me. Inside America's 15 yr disaster
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    An Anniversary of Shame
    From politico.com
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Jun 24, 2016
    The Scots' cursing out of Trump is nothing less than poetry. Why can't we swear like this?
    buzzfeed.com
    People Are Dragging Donald Trump After His Brexit Tweet About Scotland
    “You’re such a Gobshite...”
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Oct 10, 2023
    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:
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    Netanyahu’s Road to War
    From foreignpolicy.com
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Nov 6, 2014
    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/…
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Feb 17, 2021
    Replying to @arappeport and @maggieNYT
    His 1994 law sent millions to jail for drug offenses...
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Aug 3, 2016
    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/…
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Nov 6, 2016
    Can Comey order the cancellation of those 40 million early votes that have been cast since his original misleading letter? No, he can't.
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Jul 31, 2016
    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/…
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Dec 21, 2018
    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…
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    Michael Hirsh
    @michaelphirsh
    Sep 16, 2016
    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.

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