President Donald Trump and his MAGA gang had their political posteriors handed to them this week in elections in Virginia, New Jersey, New York City and California, where a ballot initiative allowing the Democratic state legislature to temporarily redraw congressional maps passed handily. But make no mistake, that doesn’t mean the world is safe.
It means Trump is now a cornered sewer rat fighting for survival. And he’s going to get even nastier.
The election setback came less than a week after the president banned reporters from the “Upper Press” area of the White House, which contains the offices of the press secretary and other senior press officials.
Two sources close to the administration told me independently this week that Trump has further plans to curtail the press, possibly inc

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