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<title><![CDATA[Michael Tracey - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/30209.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Tracey]]></description><category domain="30209">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Five Craziest Things About the Epstein Case, Part 2]]></title>
							<link>https://www.racket.news/p/five-craziest-things-about-the-epstein-377</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On civil liberties and the hearing in which women testified against Epstein after his death]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Anti-Trafficking' Racket]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-anti-trafficking-racket/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On December 28, 2023, Ra'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('º').';'l Torrez, the attorney general of New Mexico, made a landmark announcement: Deutsche Bank, the multinational financial services giant, would be partnering with the state to fight human trafficking.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Idiocy of the Epstein Mythology]]></title>
							<link>https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-idiocy-of-the-epstein-mythology/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Epstein mythology can be roughly defined as the popular belief, nearly ubiquitous on social media and adjacent outlets, that the deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein orchestrated a sprawling child sex-trafficking operation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Syria Rebels Are Former Al-Qaeda. Why's DC Celebrating?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/syrias-new-rulers-are-former-al-qaeda-terrorists-why-dc-celebrating-them-opinion-1998135</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A former Al Qaeda commander has seized power in Damascus, bringing great jubilation and relief to Washington, DC regime-changers who pined for this day.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Banning TikTok Is a Power Grab for the Deep State]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/banning-tiktok-power-grab-deep-state-opinion-1878579</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why should informed democratic deliberations on the subject be reserved for those with specially-approved Security Clearances?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Of Course Journalists Should Interview Vladimir Putin]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/course-journalists-should-interview-vladimir-putin-opinion-1867522</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the opportunity to come to Russia arose, I accepted, because bilateral relations between the world's leading nuclear superpowers had deteriorated.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Government Keeps Lying to Us About Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/government-keeps-lying-us-about-ukraine-where-outrage-opinion-1806332</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Polish soldiers launching what was called a]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 'Democracy' Funder]]></title>
							<link>https://compactmag.com/article/the-democracy-funder</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 2020, an entity called the Democracy Fund donated $175,000 to an entity called the Advancement Project. Seeing as no one would ever dream of objecting to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'democracy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'advancement'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'which would be like objecting to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'ice cream'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' or...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Wouldn't the U.S. Negotiate With Putin?]]></title>
							<link>https://mtracey.substack.com/p/why-wouldnt-the-us-negotiate-with?utm_source=url</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s of course possible that Vladimir Putin was always hell-bent on invading Ukraine, that his decision was taken months if not years ago, and that no diplomatic intervention would have made any difference. Yes, that is possible. But it is also the case that the only country capable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Six Months of Overwrought Whining About January 6]]></title>
							<link>https://mtracey.substack.com/p/political-and-media-class-solemnly</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week, the political and media class emotionally marked the six-month anniversary of what they call the January 6 insurrection. The commemorations were reminiscent of an elementary school kid who insists on celebrating their half birthday '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' a juvenile self-indulgence, but...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Does the Media Care About Historic Surge in Homicides?]]></title>
							<link>https://mtracey.substack.com/p/media-activists-do-not-care-about</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A great many reactions flowed in after my'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' earlier this week on crime patterns in Minneapolis since the George Floyd tumult exploded last year.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Year Later, Minneapolis Is 'Murderapolis' Again]]></title>
							<link>https://mtracey.substack.com/p/one-year-after-george-floyd-minneapolis</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It would be foolish to deny that there's a specific significance when citizens are unjustly killed by the police, as a jury in Minneapolis determined last week happened to George Floyd. Armed agents of the state funded by taxpayer money have special obligations, and that includes...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Sanders Was 'Russia-gated' Out of the 2020 Race]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/04/19/how_sanders_was_russia-gated_out_of_the_2020_race_142977.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Just about six weeks ago, before the coronavirus consumed every aspect of American social and political life, Bernie Sanders appeared well-positioned to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The reasons for his campaign'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s swift demise will be debated for years to come, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is Conspiring Dem Establishment Assuring Trump Victory?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/divide-democrats-more-conspiring-stop-bernie/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats want desperately to 'unite', and the one obstacle in their minds to achieving that goal is Bernie. So they machinate to deprive him of delegates]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Democrats' Dubious Impeachment Subtext of Treason]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/01/28/democrats_dubious_impeachment_subtext_of_treason_142243.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Less than 72 hours before Donald Trump was impeached last month, the House Judiciary Committee released a behemoth 658-page report outlining the rationale for the final articles produced by the Democratic majority. It would be interesting to conduct a secret ballot asking members of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[George Kent's Myth of Ukraine's Modern-Day 'Minutemen']]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/16/george_kents_myth_of_ukraines_modern-day_minutemen_141750.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The commencement of public impeachment hearings this week may have been excruciatingly dull, but for the attentive observer one moment stood out. George Kent, the very first witness whose testimony Democrats elected to showcase, dutifully outlined his sterling diplomatic credentials as...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paranoia Fuels Talk of a Third Party Run by Gabbard]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/11/01/paranoia_fuels_talk_of_a_third_party_run_by_gabbard_141632.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tulsi Gabbard has stated repeatedly and unequivocally that she will not run as a third party candidate in the 2020 election. Of course, politicians can change their minds -- or even deceive the public with false pronouncements. But in the rash of media-led paranoia about Gabbard'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Dems, Ukraine Is Perfect Extension of Russian Narrative]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/27/for_dems_ukraine_is_perfect_extension_of_russian_narrative_141352.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If Donald Trump were on the phone with the president of Angola or Singapore appearing to solicit foreign assistance, it would barely register on the outrage meter. That his latest purported infraction involves Ukraine makes all the difference, because it provides narrative continuity...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Jumbled Iraq War Revisionism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/09/11/joe_bidens_jumbled_iraq_war_revisionism__141218.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Yes, I did oppose the war before it began.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' That was Joe Biden'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest rendering of his position on the Iraq War, offered at a campaign event Sept. 6 in New Castle, N.H. Biden has been jumbling his history on the subject of late, suggesting that he opposed the war...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gabbard Victimized by DNC's Dubious Debate Criteria]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/21/gabbard_victimized_by_dncs_dubious_debate_criteria_141055.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Tulsi Gabbard is on the verge of being excluded from the next Democratic presidential debate on the basis of criteria that appear increasingly absurd.
Take, for instance, her poll standing in New Hampshire, which currently places Gabbard at 3.3% support, according to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Joe Biden Isn't 'Gaffe-Prone', He's Losing It]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/joe-biden-gaffe-prone-losing-mind/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The way to undermine Biden would be to introduce a new narrative that actually reflects his present condition: it's not a 'gaffe', it's a 'cognition error']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why NBC Singled Out Gabbard for a Negative Question]]></title>
							<link>https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/27/tulsi-gabbard-democrat-asked-negative-question-last-night/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard was the most Googled candidate after last night's debate. But she's a threat to the Democratic establishment.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Steven Crowder and the Folly of Regulating Speech]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/steven-crowder-carlos-maza-playground/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thanks to YouTube and Twitter, we must all suffer through the juvenile spat between Steven Crowder and journalist Carlos Maza]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Joe Won't Blow It]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/joe-biden-2020-blow/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To dispel Joe Biden's mystique, his rivals will have to challenge the Obama/Biden legacy. That will be an exceptionally difficult line to walk]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Madness of Democrats' Collusion Truthers]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/madness-democratic-impeachment-crusade/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Collusion truthers are using the Barr 'side-bar' to fuel the storyline that impeachment is the only viable response to the Mueller report]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sad, Angry Dems Digging Themselves Into Deep Hole]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/robert-mueller-avenue-collusion-myth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No external forces that we can glean inhibited Mueller from carrying out this task. And his conclusions were devastating for 'collusion' profiteers]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Warned That Collusion Myth Would End Up Helping Trump]]></title>
							<link>http://fortune.com/2019/03/28/trump-2020-russia-no-collusion/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://fortune.com/2019/03/28/trump-2020-russia-no-collusion/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats have handed the president a gift for his 2020 re-election.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did McCain Draw the Curtain on Neoconservatism?]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.us/2018/08/did-john-mccain-draw-the-curtain-on-neoconservatism/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://spectator.us/2018/08/did-john-mccain-draw-the-curtain-on-neoconservatism/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[He represented the demise of a vital link with liberals to forge interventionalist coalitions]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Basic Formula for Every Russia/Trump Story]]></title>
							<link>https://medium.com/theyoungturks/the-basic-formula-for-every-shocking-russia-trump-revelation-e9ae390d9f05#.owskkfmq6</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The basic formula for every breaking Trump/Russia story is essentially as follows:]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Many Sanders Supporters Won't Forgive Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/02/despite-donald-trump-many-bernie-sanders-supporters-won-t-forgive-hillary-clinton.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/02/despite-donald-trump-many-bernie-sanders-supporters-won-t-forgive-hillary-clinton.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Tracey</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton was frequently on the offensive at her first face-off with Donald Trump, but she had no response to one particular attack: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'What did we learn with DNC?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he asked. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We learned that Bernie Sanders was taken advantage of by your people.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Unlike most...]]></description>
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