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    Opinion: The Daily Beast’s Winners and Losers of the Week

    By The Daily Beast,

    4 hours ago
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    Excellent week for:

    The ear cosy

    Forget MAGA hats—this year’s must have accessory at the RNC was the ear bandage. Enterprising delegates quickly made their own, applying scotch tape and a square of neatly folded toilet paper.

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    Elizabeth Frantz, Andrew Kelly, Marco Bello, Brian Snyder, and Mike Segar/Reuters

    Great week for:

    Kai Trump

    The former president’s 17 year-old granddaughter stunned with her stage presence and a speech berating her grandpa for calling her at school to discuss golf. Her father, Donald Trump Jr., called her “ sexy ,” and warned any Kai-curious teen boys to “stay away”.

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    Jeenah Moon/Reuters

    Good week For:

    Kamala Harris

    With Biden further enfeebled by COVID-19, things are looking up for the vice president . The brass ring is within her grasp.

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    Nathan Howard

    Not such a good week for:

    Tiffany Trump

    Her father, former President Donald Trump, snubbed her affection only to immediately accept a kiss on the cheek from his new favorite, granddaughter Kai. Then again, is it ever a good week for Tiffany?

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    Jeenah Moon/Reuters

    Terrible week for: Freedom of the press

    Evan Gershkovich

    For the first time since the Cold War, a Russian court convicted an American journalist of espionage. Accused of spying for the CIA, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony. The State Department called him “wrongfully detained.”

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    Dmitry Chasovitin/Reuters

    Career ending week for:

    Sen. Bob Menendez

    The New Jersey senator denied reports he was resigning from Congress after being found guilty on 16 counts of bribery, and accepting “cash, gold bars, payments toward a home mortgage, compensation for a low-or-no-show job, a luxury vehicle and other items of value.” The jury didn’t believe his denials after discovering he had $150,000 in gold bars and upon returning from a business trip to Egypt promptly Googled, “How much is one kilo of gold worth?”

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    Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

    Read more at The Daily Beast.

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