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Sidney Blumenthal

What does JD Vance really believe?

JD Vance, in shirtsleeves, speaking at a Trump rally.
‘From mentor to mentor, too numerous to mention without writing a small treatise, Vance has shape-shifted.’ Photograph: Go Nakamura/Reuters

The world is on fire, but in Washington DC topic A is Olivia Nuzzi. Her suspension as a writer for New York Magazine for sharing “demure” nude photographs of herself and other indiscreet communications with Robert F Kennedy Jr has engendered gales of hilarity to relieve the tension of the razor-thin close campaign.

Nuzzi’s relationship in journalistic terms fits the supreme court’s ruling on presidential immunity of the distinction between Donald Trump’s “private” and “official” acts involving the January 6 insurrection. In the spirit of the court and The Scarlet Letter, the blond bombshell has received more punishment for sexting than the blond bomber has for attempting a coup.

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