Today on TAP: Republicans can try, but they aren’t going to be able to run and hide from this one.
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
He can be reached on Signal at ddayen.90.
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Posted inPolitics
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Posted inPolitics
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Posted inLaw and Justice
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
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