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Trump’s Campaign to Overturn the Election Was Inane

Trump’s Campaign to Overturn the Election Was Inane

Recently released emails reveal a helter-skelter pressure campaign on the Justice Department

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Virginia Heffernan
Jun 30, 2021
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In October 2006, just as bankers all over Wall Street were realizing that maybe, just maybe, they should be a little more circumspect about their adventures in subprime-mortgage bundling, some financiers at Goldman Sachs dreamed up a code for use in email: LDL. “Let’s discuss live.” In one notorious example, someone on the mortgage-securities desk menti…

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