Tuesday Open Thread

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1. “The greatest transfer of wealth n history”…really?

   But the top 1% gets most of it, while bottom 50% divvy up a whole 8% of the gains…..

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   1. Isn’t the Prosperity Jesus playbook what it’s all about?!?!  How else are people to know that Jesus loves them if he isn’t making them rich??

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2. Of Course Trump was Involved with Russia. TPM's Josh Marshall.

   This probably doesn’t require much saying. But I think we need to say it anyway in the context of the low-energy but still petulant “Durham Report.” Trump diehards like Durham and most Republicans have now spent years claiming that the Trump/Russia investigation was some kind of Deep State plot or “collusion” between the FBI, the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The kinder, gentler version of this attack is that the FBI, whatever its motives, never should have opened an investigation in the first place.

   This is all absurd.

   The Trump campaign was positively infested with individuals who ranged from people who did extensive business in Russia to ones who were likely assets of Russian intelligence and/or compromised by Russian intelligence. These ties were so overwhelming they could be pieced together not just from public sources but in fairly high-profile published reports, as I did here in July of 2016.

   Scrutinizing things like this is quite literally the central task of a counter-intelligence agency. The FBI is the country’s lead counter-intelligence agency.

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