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Didn’t he care? The ABC interview foreshadowed the answ...
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The explanation that he wanted
to help combat “corruption” in Ukraine was barely believable to anyone around him.
The obvious corruption was in the...
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The president had apparently learned nothing from the Mueller...
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We learned that, given enough time and space, Donald J. Trump will seek to abus...
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No external force can ameliorate his attractio...
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His presidency is continually jeopardized by it, and so are Ame...
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as a politician blatantly seeking to hurt people in places where
he can’t see an electoral advantage.
The net effect of the president’s war on democratic institutions is that he has turned the government of the United States into one of his companies: a badly managed enterprise defined by a sociopathic personality in the c-suite, rife with infighting, embroiled in lawsuits, falling deeper into debt, allergic to internal and external criticism, open to shady side deals, operating with limited oversight, and servicing its self-absorbed owner at the expense of its customers.
The hosts were upset when the president arrived late.
Trump berated other leaders about “unfair trade practices.”
He grew irritated with Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe, at one point apparently telling him in a meeting: “Shinzō, you don’t have this problem [of illegal immigration], but I can send you twenty-five million Mexicans and you’ll be out of office very soon.” He tossed Starburst candy at German chancellor Angela Merkel, remarking, “Here, Angela. Don’t say I never give you anything.” And then he left the summit early, rounding off the vi...
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and
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announcing that the United States was backing out of the joint statement signed only hours ear...
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It was as if Putin himself had written Trump’s talking points.
In any event, Trump didn’t care about the tiny trail of destruction he left on the way out of Canada.
His mind was elsewhere. He was flying to make new friends, on the oth...
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The G7 was merely a distraction standing in the way of the month’s main event: his meeting with Kim Jong Un, the brutal dictator of North Korea. Trump would later reveal it ...
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President Trump doesn’t see the world this way. It’s never been fully clear to me why, but he’s flipped the script, distancing himself from America’s friends and courting its foes.
Worst of all, he has seemingly abandoned a century-long consensus about America’s role as leader of the free world.
Each of Trump’s claims are false and his attempted point is based on a shortsighted view of history.
We would be far worse off today if the United States hadn’t invested in the success of our friends.
We should be deepening relationships with allies.
We should be fighting forward with our principles.
For every step we take backward, adversaries will step forward on the world stage to accomplish thei...
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Unfortunately, my experience serving under this president has left me convinced Trump is shi...
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He’s not positioning us to strengthen our empire of liberty. Instead he’s left the empire’s flank vulnerab...
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The president likes to keep everyone guessing about his views, sometimes even himself, but the stakes are much higher in foreign policy than they are on talk shows or Twitter.
But
all of a sudden Trump was responsible for the most powerful nation on earth.
What if a real crisis...
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No one knew what page the president was on.
Or if he was even reading from the same book.
Everyone developed policy whiplash, from advisors a stone’s throw beyond the Oval Office to ambassadors stationed abroad.
What was going on inside Trump’s head? We had no idea what he’d do next, and it wasn’t obvious the president did either. Decisions
were made by the seat of ...
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Those privy to the content of the president’s phone calls with foreign leaders were red...
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To us, he came off like a complete amateur, using important calls to brag about himself an...
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allies felt the s...
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His strange proclamations and irascibility shocked them. Behind the scenes, they begged us—fruitlessl...
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“Please,” one foreign leader implored, “you must get him off of Twitter. It’s hu...
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His country had been in the crosshairs of a recent Trump missive, and he argued that he couldn’t be seen by his people working with the United States if the pre...
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We agreed, but as...
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it was a lost cause. Trump’s social media addiction ...
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The volume of tweets-turned-crises abroa...
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Trump’s social media missives were limiting US response options to an overseas incident, the full details of which will not be released for some years.
A new hire on the team was visibly frustrated. “The president needs to stop tweeting!”
The presumption was naive. The president didn’t care, and he didn’t read the lengthy public document, which became more of a
