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In the Spiel, FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok were sloppy, but their take on Trump was right on the money.
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Correction, July 2, 2018: The headline originally misstated the number of words Mike Pesca says are in Jesse Singal’s cover story in the Atlantic. He says 12,000 words, not 13,000.
