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Donald Trump Couldn’t Be Trusted to Direct a Charity; Why Does Anybody Trust Him to Preside Over a Country?

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Donald Trump Couldn’t Be Trusted to Direct a Charity; Why Does Anybody Trust Him to Preside Over a Country?

Brianna Brown | U. Pittsburgh School of Law, US

December 1, 2019 08:58:37 pm

For those inclined to question whether Donald Trump would actually be so brazen as to straight up take over the apparatus of U.S. foreign policy purely to boost his own reelection prospects, bear this in mind. We already know that Donald Trump is willing to hijack an entity organized to serve the public interest and [...]

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