I have pretty much given up on waiting for lots of people to advance The Washington Post’s mega scoop about the possibility that the Republican candidate for president might have been sublet to the government of Egypt. A consensus seems to be building that there is no “smoking gun” to prove that former attorney general Bill Barr squashed an FBI probe into the matter, which I guess is the most important part of the story, although Egyptian bankers hustling ten large in small bills into duffel bags and shipping them Trumpward seems fairly compelling in a Donald Westlake/Elmore Leonard kind of way. So, okay, let’s look at another story that’s largely sailing under the radar. The former president* seems to be losing the Mormons.

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