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Everything Trump Touches Dies

Rick Wilson got it exactly right.

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Damian Penny
Feb 09, 2021
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I have my issues with The Lincoln Project, especially whenever their dealings with lawyers are involved. Not to mention their dealings with teenagers. But Rick Wilson absolutely nailed it with four simple words:

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As the former President settles into a comfortable, if social-media-deprived retirement - honestly, it’s probably a comfortable retirement because he can’t use social media anymore - many of the people who put their professional livelihoods and reputations on the line for him aren’t faring so well:

…In the three months since the election was called for Joe Biden, most of the lawyers and MAGA enthusiasts who decided to play a consequential role in the ex-president’s efforts to overturn the Democratic nominee’s 2020 win (efforts that led directly to the Jan. 6 mob violence), have had their jobs or businesses shredded, their personal lives shaken, or their reputations irrevocably tarnished—all while Trump’s been relaxing and playing his rounds of golf in the Sunshine State.

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