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    “Trump Points His Finger, and a Life Is Ruined”

    Alexander Vindman joins the club of people whom the president has targeted for telling the truth.
    by Benjamin Wittes Feb 08, 2020 4 minutes
    Source: Andrew Harnik / AP

    In 2018, Donald Trump waited to move against Attorney General Jeff Sessions until the day after the midterm elections—but he didn’t wait a day longer than that. No sooner were the elections over than Trump dismissed Sessions, who had upset the president by recusing himself from the Russia investigation. Sessions, Trump believed, was “supposed to protect” him. The first senator to endorse Trump’s bid for the presidency never regained his favor.

    Trump managed to wait two days after his Senate acquittal before taking care of family business, as Michael Corleone would put it, with respect to those who had upset him in

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