By Ben Terris, Marianne LeVine · The Washington Post (c) 2024 Maybe the most powerful man you’ve never heard of is a cherubic 38-year-old immigrant from the small Mediterranean archipelago of Malta whose job right now is to conduct the installation of thousands of Donald Trump’s political appointees, as part of the MAGA-fication of the U.S. government. […]
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