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Trump forgot to bring Iran deal to signing — leaving Rubio scrambling for printer: report
Power, Not ProcessA Deal Built Around One Man’s ImpulseThe source gives away the real story in its absurdities: Marco Rubio hunting for a printer inside Versailles while Donald Trump decided, on the spot, to sign the Iran deal at a candlelit dinner, with the text apparently not even ready in hand. That is not diplomacy in any serious institutional sense. It is executive theater, and everyone else is there to absorb the fallout.Who Held the LeversThe actual institutional power sat with Trump. He changed the venue, changed the timing, changed the public script, and ultimately overrode the…
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