To drag out a favorite hobby horse of mine, could this be the looming Repug disaster Cheney has been aware of? He could have learned about it through the other end of the pipeline, say, with his Gulf contacts reporting rumors that very sensitive US intel documents were for sale.

🚨🚨BREAKING per NYT: Some senior Republicans have been quietly warned by *Trump allies* not to continue to be so aggressive in criticizing the DOJ and F.B.I. because it is possible that more damaging information about Mr. Trump related to the Mar-A-Lago search will become public

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