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Virginia Heffernan: Trump clearly has no plans to stop his traitorous crime spree on the way to impeachment

In more decorous times, when it was still shocking for a politician to have, say, an affair or an off-the-books nanny, Washington PR agencies offered an elegant four-part prescription for crisis management. Tell the truth. Say you're sorry. Cut your losses. Lick your wounds.

It's almost quaint to remember the quiet power of honesty, tactical prioritizing, apology and self-reflection.

Crisis management now is just one more thing Trump has remade in his own image. He addresses a gathering storm not with the tonic of truth but

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