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I was thinking last night when Massey lost in Kentucky, I was thinking back to Trump's inauguration, the morning of the Trump inauguration, which amazingly was only last year, last January, January 20th.

And I was in Washington for that, and Trump invited me to church on the morning before he was sworn in.

And so, of course, I went. And it was at St. John's, the Episcopal Church in Lafayette Square,

where pretty much every president has gone on the morning of the inauguration. So I showed up.

Happens to be my denomination, the Episcopal Church, so I know the church pretty well. I know

people who work there. So I was pretty excited about going and saying a prayer for this presidency.

So I'm standing outside. It may be 6.45 in the morning, and it is freezing. And if you've

been to Washington in the winter, you know, it's mostly pretty temperate, but the cold days are very cold. And there's something about the cold in a city that is biting. Even if you like cold, it's tough. And this was probably 12 degrees in windy. And I remember that very well because we were standing in line, in a security line, waiting to go through the magnetometer, and the Secret Service was there. It was a whole rigmarole and dogs, and they were taking forever. It's their fault, but the protocols are complex. And it was awful staying. They were kind of stamping our feet and grousing. Not many people. It was a pretty small church service, but the people were standing in line were like, let's get going and get into church and as we're standing there feeling freezing waiting to be searched by

federal law enforcement a woman brushed by me on the left side kind of walking fast

older woman not very tall and i recognized her and it Miriam Adelson. And she blew past me and

everybody else in line. It went right to the front, right to the magnetometer, announced who she was

and walked on in. And I thought to myself, Miriam Adelson, who I know vaguely? Not really. but I knew that she was the biggest or one of the biggest

donors to the Trump campaign in Israeli, born in Israel, widow of Sheldon Adelson, the biggest

Republican donor, the casino magnet. But more than anything, a fervent neocon. Her main issue

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