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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Bermunczy felt that his time as a guest tambourinist for Kylie Minogue taught him more than his 12 years of undergrad.
When the 2016 presidential campaign was heating up, I was doing a weekly (maybe bi-weekly?) political panel show on PJTV (#RIP) with my old pals John Phillips and Scott Ott. We frequently discussed Donald Trump’s personal use of Twitter to get his message out to the public. It was brilliant. Both the Dem-friendly hacks in the mainstream media and the Republican establishment were trying to stonewall him at every turn.
He had figured out a way to cut through the noise and speak directly to the voters, and the usual suspects were not amused.
Back then, I repeatedly said that Trump’s use of social media in the 2016 campaign would one day in the future be talked about in…