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Commentary: All the president's moronic men

Four Trump-circle rogues in the news last week have shed light on a perplexing mystery of our time. Why in the world do educated American men, with families, do moronic, dangerous and treacherous things like, apparently, colluding with the Kremlin to install a puppet in the White House?

The particular rogues I'm thinking of are President Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort; Trump's former lawyer-fixer Michael Cohen; conspiracy theorist and Trump cheerleader Jerome Corsi; and Trump Organization advisor Felix Sater.

Each man has at varying times

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