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sandensea

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1. Macri's paranoia really got the best of him
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 01:49 AM
Jun 2020

What surprised many in Argentina (though it shouldn't), is that he apparently had at least as many allies and supporters spied on as critics and opponents.

Some have gotten downright panicky - presumably because they know those files include marital infidelity, and God-only-knows what else.

My favorite of these cases is probably Luis Majul - Argentina's Tucker Carlson.

In his Friday night show, he looked straight into the camera and pleaded (in that high-pitched little voice of his): "All I ask is that the authorities not leak any personal or financial information of mine - not that I have a guilty conscience or anything like that!"

(of course, he used a much more colorful phrase)

This is the same Luis Majul that, during the 2017 midterms, giddily aired leaked private phone calls between Cristina Kirchner and her longtime friend and adviser Oscar Parrilli (now a senator).

There was nothing scandalous, except that in one of them he picked up and asked "Yes?Who is it?" and she said: "It's me, dummy!"

Macri and his "pocket" judges were driving her crazy that year, you'll recall.

To all this, I might add that one of the people Macri kept dirt on, most likely, was none other than Donald Trump - whom Macri hosted in Argentina a number of times in the '80s and '90s.

I'm 99% sure of that.

That said, Mille Grazie, Judi, for the very generous and heartfelt compliment.

Likewise!

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