Just before leaving for Singapore on June 9, Trump announced that he would be able to determine whether a denuclearization deal was attainable “within the first minute” of meeting Kim. How? “My touch, my feel—that’s what I do,” he boasted to reporters. One longtime Trump adviser summed up the president’s mind-set about the North Korea talks: “He looks at it like he looks at everything, which is, this is another guy who is the mouse that roared, who’s tied his tail to China, to whom Donald Trump could be the messiah. Why? Because in Donald J. Trump’s mind, he thinks that he, the president, has
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