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The Ledger

A War Trump Is Stuck In

On June 17 Trump called Iran's leaders the smartest group he had dealt with. On July 8 he called them scum and cuckoo. Twenty-one days separated those two descriptions. The name-calling is the sound of a man who gave away too much and cannot afford to say so.

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