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I wasn’t going to waste my time on the over-privileged, excessively- pampered trophy wife Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stupidly took with him on a recent taxpayer- funded business trip . Linton was on a government-funded jet, and cited her husband's service as part of her punch-down of a critic https://t.co/DfJ1GOMvlf — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 22, 2017 But after thinking about her rude, snotty, and insanely ill-informed reply to someone who took issue with her gross display of wealth, I think I should expend a few words. Mrs. Mnuchin believes she and her spouse contribute more to the country than whomever it was who critiqued her behavior. No. They and their kind are leeches. Bloodsuckers. Literally part of the great vampire squid empire Matt Taibbi described. They do not add value to this country. They chew at its foundations in great, monster-sized bites. And they believe they are entitled to do so. But they’re wealthy! Look at all the money they have , one mig...

The search began before dawn; the train had just crossed the border of Tajikistan into Uzbekistan. We were only three hours into the four- day train ride between Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital, and Moscow. An Uzbek border guard , clad in brown fatigues , boarded the train — a Soviet-replica, green, with a silver roof — and began yelling. He moved through the car, searching passenger after passenger, ripping apart belongings, interrogating everyone about terrorism and narcotics, and scanning flip phones and cheap Nokias for “sex photos” (pornography is banned in Uzbekistan). The passengers endured this, unfazed. Almost all of them were migrants traveling to Russia for work. They’d seen this routine before. It was March. Across Tajikistan, thousands of people — mostly young men — were departing for or preparing to leave for Russia. The long Russian winter was nearing its end; construction projects in cities like Moscow and St. Petersburg were slowly coming back to life. Tajikistan, t...