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When Everything You Touch Turns to Crime

One crime, two crimes, red crime, blue crime
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Picking Donald Trump’s worst week is a mug’s game—there are so many from which to choose, and compelling arguments for several—but simply because they encompass so many parts of the Trump experience, the last few days are emblematic.

On Saturday, the former president to be “terminate[d]” in response to his own fake claims of election fraud in 2020. On Monday, he and blamed the media. On Tuesday, his handpicked candidate for U.S. Senate in the once reliably ruby state of Georgia , concluding a midterm cycle in which Democrats

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