<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics Daily: Even Funerals Are Political Now
Today, in the Trump era, funerals have become political, too. Plus, one archivist’s grim mission. Finally, a better word than <em>emoluments</em>.
by Saahil Desai
Oct 25, 2019
3 minutes
Today in Politics
It’s Friday, October 25. Today, in the Trump era, funerals have become political, too. Plus, one archivist’s grim mission. Finally, a better word than emoluments.
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President Donald Trump wasn’t at Elijah Cummings’s funeral on Friday.
Nor did any of the eulogists honoring the late veteran Democratic lawmaker—from Nancy Pelosi to Hillary Clinton to Bill Clinton to Barack Obama—explicitly mention Trump, who earlier this year called Cummings’s district “a disgusting rat
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