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WHY DOES THE PRESS KEEP HELPING TRUMP?

THE “MAGAZINE” was mostly laughable, with its bad cartoons and headlines that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a fifth-grade Halloween flyer. But it was also a perfect metaphor for the 2018 election and the fight that we’re in for the next two years.

The 40-page hunk of glossy paper was campaign literature for Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman best known for using the House probe of Russian election interference to peddle conspiracy theories about a plot against Donald (which, for what it’s worth, had endorsed him in every single campaign of the past 16 years).

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