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Rogue’ Trump official ‘roiled’ State Department for days: report

When U.S. Foreign Policy Becomes a Game of TelephoneThe Power Is at the TopThe report is about Chris Landau, but the power sits above him. Donald Trump sets the official line, Marco Rubio manages the State Department’s machinery, and the rest of the bureaucracy is left to sort out the fallout when those lines conflict or get muddied. That is the real story: not one deputy secretary “going rogue,” but an administration whose foreign policy can be reversed, interpreted, or opportunistically relayed depending on who picks up the phone.The Message Was the ProblemAccording to the report, Landau…

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