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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep 1, 2018, 12:32 PM Sep 2018

His summer from hell

Analysis by Z. Byron Wolf, CNN
Updated 1:53 AM ET, Sat September 1, 2018

... It's hard to look away from a train wreck. It's impossible to look away from successive wrecks ...

... Trump's declarations that North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat .. have proved premature .. as talks .. on details of an agreement have stalled ...

... Trump seemed to side with Putin while he was standing next to the Russian leader, instead of his own government ... While Trump was busy trying to clean up in the days that followed, Putin's Kremlin started referring to military agreements he'd made during their private conversation. The Pentagon was caught unaware ...

The "zero tolerance" policy ... led to a genuine and bipartisan public outcry over the summer, however, as it became clear that young children were being taken from their parents for what US law considers a misdemeanor crime ...

... Cohen said last week in court that Trump had directed .. payments to hush up a former Playboy model and former porn star .. before the election ...

... Manafort, the former Trump campaign chief, was convicted last week in a Virginia federal court on eight of 18 counts of tax and bank fraud ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/01/politics/trump-administration-summer-hell-drama-key-moments/index.html

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