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Former Washington Post columnist Writing: pbump.net Book: "The Aftermath" Email: [email protected] Signal: pbump.11

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jul 17

And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout.
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jul 17

For my column today, I wrote about how Trump leveraged America's collapsing trust in institutions — and how his second term has accelerated that collapse. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA

Opinion | When institutions crumble, strongmen step in

Trump wants to be the sole authority. With trust in institutions cratering, he sees his opportunity.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 27m

University of Austin

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 34m

I’m curious what value you feel this adds here.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 37m

Why should Fox Business care about Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize? No reason except that Trump wants it and the Fox anchor is deeply committed to him. That’s it.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 38m

The right’s Nobel obsession is useful because it is inexplicable as anything other than trying to make Trump personally happy. 95% of all Trumpworld obsessions have the same root (2020 election, James/Comey) but rarely is it so hard to retcon a justification for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 54m

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

Yeah, he wants to depose Maduro. This isn’t complicated.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

Morning moon and a bit of blue sky.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

Oh, so they give the Peace Prize to people pushing to go AWAY from autocracy? I see the problem.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Why didn’t he just let the air out of her tires?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

Did a quick post earlier to reinforce that in the places where Trump says crime is out of control crime is demonstrably under control.
www.pbump.net/o/a-quick-re...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

Phillies got to play four more games than the Mets this season and won one of them. Congrats!

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Good two days of baseball!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

That’s an intense Halloween costume!

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

Quick jog up 34th Street and made it, amazingly.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

I wasn’t around for Nixon!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

Supposed to be on air on CNN in 8 minutes. On the West Side Highway currently. Let’s see!

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14h

In the cities Trump is targeting to “combat crime,” violent crime was down year-over-year by July. www.pbump.net/o/a-quick-re...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

A great line.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

Via @mollyroberts.bsky.social, this is what ABC reported last month about the allegations that led to the James indictment.
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While Martin is examining whether another property owned by James in Virginia was inconsistently described as both "second home" and an "investment property," sources said senior
DOJ leadership believes Martin would be unable to prove any allegations beyond a reasonable doubt, in part because Fannie Mae guidelines on the issue are too vague.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

Except that you have to wait a week for episodes.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

The indictment may relate to mortgage documents James co-signed to help her niece secure a loan for a property in Virginia.

This @mollyroberts.bsky.social piece explains why it appears to be a pathetically weak case.

(Fixed the link, sorry!) ⬇️

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It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

Cool system.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16h

It would be *extremely* funny if the Nobel committee just gave it to Obama again.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

It’s fun to imagine how little his and his allies’ rhetoric would change if the prize Trump was so desperate for wasn’t the Nobel Peace Prize but “Sexiest Man Alive.”

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

It's weird to write this conspiratorially, but it seems clear that the president actually doesn't want you to know that crime is down in the cities he's targeted. www.pbump.net/o/a-quick-re...

A quick reminder that crime is down in U.S. cities

One of the particularly frustrating things about President Trump's push to send federal officials and red-state National Guard soldiers to cities to "fight crime" is that those cities (and cities gene...

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