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The entire cabinet from the first Trump regime is gone, and that didn't slow them down. Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Stone, Kushner, Mattis, Pompeo, Barr, Carson, DeVos - all gone. Or are they? And does it matter?
Naming and firing a scapegoat is a very commonly used "modified limited hang out" tactic (to quote a Nixon staffer.)