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Feb 2025
29m 21s

Trump 2.0: The Art of the Deal

The New York Times
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This week, President Trump proposed two deals that would require allies to put his needs ahead of their own. Times’ Journalists Michael Barbaro, Catie Edmonson, Maggie Haberman, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs discuss how, in both cases, Trump got what he wanted. 
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