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Goodbye, enemies. Hello, adversaries.

Just a little essay with some thoughts on today.

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Emily Atkin
Jan 20, 2021
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Today, on the final day of Donald Trump’s presidency, I’m thinking about my late mentor Wayne Barrett. He was the first journalist to investigate Donald Trump in the 70s, and the first to take seriously his corruption and greed. Wayne not only exposed what Trump did during his early days as a real estate developer in New York; he exposed who Trump was, …

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