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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review On March 17, former CIA director John Brennan tweeted about the current president of the United States: \u201cWhen the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. . . . 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