Trump’s Cozy Transportation Secretary
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Michael Scherer
Michael Scherer is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He previously worked as a national political reporter for The Washington Post, the Washington bureau chief of Time magazine, and the Washington correspondent for Salon. He started his career at The Daily Hampshire Gazette, in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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