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<title><![CDATA[Timothy O&apos;Brien - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/33825.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Timothy O&apos;Brien]]></description><category domain="33825">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Musk Is the Wrong Leader for Twitter's Vital Mission]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/elon-musk-and-twitter-are-a-bad-match</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It looks as if Twitter Inc. will sell itself to Elon Musk for $43 billion, which would make the deal one of the largest leveraged buyouts in Wall Street history and give Tesla Inc.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s steward a powerful social media perch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Colonial Pipeline Paid the Ransom. Bad Move]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/colonial-pipeline-hack-whatever-you-do-don-t-pay-the-ransom</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And after forking over $5 million to hackers who forced it to shut down an important fuel conduit, which spurred a bonkers run on local gas stations, the burglars gave Colonial a decryption key meant to sanitize its computer networks. But the tool didn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t work very well. Bad trade.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Stays Banned on Facebook.&nbsp;Keep It That Way]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/trump-facebook-ban-is-upheld-keep-it-that-way</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump remains banned from Facebook Inc.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s global echo chamber, and that'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s a good thing. After the social media company banned him in January for inciting a deadly insurrection at the Capitol, its Oversight Board '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' the outside group the company established to monitor...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Phone Call Is What Coup Fever Looks Like]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-phone-call-coup-fever-113019315.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Like the little boy haunted by ghosts in the horror movie The Sixth Sense, President Donald Trump sees dead people everywhere. He thinks at least 5,000 of them voted in Georgia during the presidential election and were part of a broader conspiracy that deprived him of a victory in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Fears Leaving the White House]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-trump-fears-leaving-white-113003515.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Donald Trump is the luckiest man alive. Unlike almost, well, everyone, he's been protected from the consequences of his own mistakes his entire life. Born into a wealthy family, he was insulated from lukewarm academic prospects and serial business crack-ups by his...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Failed to Protect America, and Himself]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-failed-protect-america-100043044.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president now watches his political future, his well-being and his monarchical sense of entitlement circumscribed by a virus wearing a crown.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-taxes-show-hes-national-093724888.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In a tour de force of hard won reporting, the New York Times has put numerical clothing on what we've known about President Donald Trump for decades '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that, at best, he's a haphazard businessman, human billboard and serial bankruptcy artist who gorges on...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[William Barr Only Claims to Respect the Rule of Law]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/william-barr-only-claims-respect-103017167.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Attorney General William Barr is famously unflappable, the legal technician and savvy Washington insider unswayed by lesser minds or weaker wills. But on Tuesday, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing examining the past 19 months of his tenure, Barr's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Twitter Has Little to Fear From Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-05-28/twitter-has-little-to-fear-from-trump?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A moment'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s frustration won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t push the president to destroy his favorite toy.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Can We Finally Stop Listening to Elon Musk Now?]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-many-things-wise-100036144.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We have had much of Elon Musk. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve had Musk smoking weed and sipping whiskey on a radio show while assessing humanity: '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re all chimps. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re one notch. One notch above a chimp. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';' If you watch some show like '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Naked and Afraid,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' or, you know, if you...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Read Trump's Lips: He Wants Foreign Help in 2020]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/read-trump-lips-wants-foreign-181044715.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg Opinion) -- On July 25, just a day after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress and essentially concluded his investigation of President Donald Trump's various intersections with Russia, Trump asked Ukraine's leader to find dirt on a political opponent...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Border Obscenities Will Shame U.S. for Decades]]></title>
							<link>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-obscenities-shame-america-123017650.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' - Ray Bradbury]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Triple Fail on Iran, Mexico, and Immigration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-24/trump-suffers-a-triple-fail-on-iran-mexico-and-immigration</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s solo initiatives on Iran, Mexico and immigrants were all abandoned before taking effect. Twitter bravado is a terrible way to govern.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Constitutional Conflicts Are Exposed]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-21/trump-s-conflicts-on-secrets-are-exposed-by-mcgahn-and-mehta</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president loves the Constitution when it helps stop his advisers from testifying, less so when it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s used to demand the disclosure of his finances.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[No, the Russia Probe Isn't This Generation's WMD]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-01/no-russiagate-isn-t-this-generation-s-wmd?srnd=premium</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Barr gave Trump and media critics a fresh rallying cry. And the Steele dossier is back in vogue. Does anybody really know what'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s going on here?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Trump's World, He Never Loses]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-17/national-emergency-trump-has-no-intention-of-losing-on-the-wall?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[His Rose Garden speech declaring a national emergency and his decades of self-aggrandizement are more closely related than you might think.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Weaves Trump, Manafort and Cohen Ever Closer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-08/mueller-weaves-trump-manafort-and-cohen-ever-closer?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three sentencing memos paint unflattering portraits of the president's former campaign chairman and personal lawyer.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller's Flynn Memo Should Worry Kushner and Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-05/mueller-s-flynn-memo-should-worry-kushner-and-trump?srnd=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The former national security adviser provided information about interactions between the presidential transition team and Russian officials.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Attack on Mueller Is About One Thing: Fear]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-15/trump-tweets-against-mueller-he-s-running-scared</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why would the president risk adding to Mueller'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s obstruction inquiry? There are bigger things at stake for him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Just Stepped Over Trump's Red Line]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-15/robert-mueller-s-subpoenas-cross-trump-s-red-line</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president once warned the prosecutor to stay out of his family business. The reply: subpoenas.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Failure to Attract Talent Again Comes Back to Bite Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-06/trump-aides-like-nunberg-and-cohen-haunt-his-white-house</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Way back in 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his presidential run and the country began to learn what New Yorkers had always known about him, he reassured folks that he was a talent magnet.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Jared Kushner, Easy Mark]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-28/jared-kushner-easy-mark</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Other countries have good reasons to think that Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser is vulnerable to manipulation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Timing of Flynn's Lies Shows Risks to Kushner]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-02/timing-of-flynn-s-lies-shows-risks-to-kushner</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[To see where Mueller appears to be heading, follow the sequence of events around meetings with Russians.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's No Art to Trump's Dance With Democrats]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-15/there-s-no-art-to-trump-s-dance-with-democrats</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was much back-and-forth between the West Wing and Capitol Hill from Wednesday night into Thursday, involving immigration policy and that mythic Mexican border wall. The zigging and zagging could be described as many things, but it's probably best not to use President Donald Trump's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[It's MLK Day, So Show John Lewis Some Respect]]></title>
							<link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-16/it-s-mlk-day-mr-trump-so-show-john-lewis-some-respect</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump took to Twitter -- surprise! -- on Saturday to slam Representative John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat, for saying that he planned to skip Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s upcoming inauguration because he doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t consider Trump to be a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'legitimate president.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[So What About Trump's Bromance With Putin &amp; Russia?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-02/on-trump-s-bromance-with-putin-and-russia</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Timothy O&apos;Brien</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Remember: All good conspiracies require a theory.]]></description>
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