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The Benny Johnson Show: How a Serial Plagiarist Became Trump's Favorite Truth-Teller

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What the fuck is going on in the White House briefing room? There sits Benny Johnson, 39 years old and radiating the kind of desperate energy that screams "please validate my existence," occupying the newly christened "new media seat"—Trump's middle finger to the press corps. Johnson delivered a soliloquy about Washington crime so melodramatic and filled with lies and then that pan-caked tart of a press secretary lapped it up. I mean I watched this and had to look at my coffee cup and make sure it didn’t say “drink me” on the si…