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Mar 02, 2025
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Weeks ahead of Trump's second Inauguration, I found myself watching Steve Bannon giving a speech at a War Room . "We're flooding the zone [with cabinet picks]!" He stated to a hundreds were crowded into an event space festooned with late-empire antiques and weathered, imported French mirrors at a new restaurant called Butterworth's.

Yet despite winning t…

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Richie McGinniss is a DC-based independent journalist with 14 years of experience working for media outlets across the political spectrum.
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