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Xi Holds the Cards, Trump Chases His Base
Donald Trump went to the UN this week and gave what sounded like a MAGA speech to a room full of world leaders who’ve grown weary of him. His threats against Iran and Cuba and his bragging about Venezuela went over like a lead balloon.
Was it a failure? Only if you think the delegates were the audience. They weren’t. Dan Schnur explains who Trump was really talking to, and why, because like everything else this fall, it comes back to the midterms.
But the UN was just the undercard. The main event is Trump welcoming Xi Jinping to Washington, and Dan lays out why Xi arrives with the upper hand…
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