thefederalistfreestyle:Don’t let Donald Trump’s antics distract you from what’s really important (Vo
thefederalistfreestyle:Don’t let Donald Trump’s antics distract you from what’s really important (Vox):Here are a few news stories that broke between the time I left work a little early on Friday afternoon and the time my toddler went down for his midday nap on Saturday:Foreign diplomats are booking rooms at Donald Trump’s hotel in Washington, DC because they believe that directly putting money in the pocket of the President-elect of the United States will serve as a bribe that helps them curry favor with him and influence foreign policy.Congress’s phones got jammed by citizens calling in and asking members to do something about Donald Trump’s financial conflicts of interest.Donald Trump paid $21 million to former students of his fake university who he allegedly defrauded.Donald Trump got into a Twitter war with the cast of Hamilton.The Hamilton blow-up — because it’s easy to understand, bizarre, and connects with a pop culture phenomenon — has naturally ended up getting the bulk of the news pickup. One potential reason is that Trump’s tweets are public, whereas it took diligent reporting by the Washington Post to get the hotel story. The idea is that other prestigious outlets may be disinclined to pay attention to a story the Post “owns” and to give due credit to its significance.Meanwhile, a second-order controversy even broke out among the people I follow on Twitter as to whether the Hamilton audience booing Mike Pence in some sense played into Trump’s hands. -- source link
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