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metalbot

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13. Unless it's a crime that he can be prosecuted for

Reply to Vinca (Reply #12)

Tue Jan 31, 2017, 09:22 AM

Jan 2017

I don't see anything that would force or shame him out. I think he'd have to publicly criticize Trump in order to get fired, and I'm willing to give him credit for being smart enough to do that.

He makes Dick Cheney (who played much the same role with Bush despite having a different title) seem like a happy moderate.

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