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Jan 2021
25m 56s

Impeached twice and still empowered

POLITICO
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He's spent a lifetime turning near-disasters into brand-building triumphs. POLITICO magazine writer Michael Kruse talks to Scott Bland about how President Trump could do it again—unless the Senate breaks the pattern. Plus, a dispatch from POLITICO Congress reporter Sarah Ferris. Scott Bland is a politics editor at POLITICO.Michael Kruse is a senior staff wri ... Show More
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