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What will Trump do without Politico Pro?

Washington Post - Erik Wemple · Erik Wemple · last updated

The events that befell Politico on Wednesday couldn’t have materialized in a functional country.

Here’s the sequence: The Rosslyn-based news outfit was late in paying employees this week, a snafu that the company attributed to a technical glitch. Everyone got their paychecks, though some commentators sniffed sinister things. The fleeting payroll failure just so happened to coincide with the high-profile efforts of the Trump administration to eradicate the U.S. Agency for International Development — and Politico is “massively funded” by USAID!

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