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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Trump Thinks He Can Outsmart Putin
Mike Pompeo’s meeting with the Russian leader will help test the theory that the president’s “good cop” routine is politically useful.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP / Mark Reinstein ... A Very Trumpy Reunion on the Las Vegas Strip
The handful of White House castoffs who have descended on the Bellagio Hotel represent some of the most dramatic episodes of this presidency.
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP The Lingering Mystery of Anthony Scaramucci
The former White House communications director hasn’t quite moved past his fleeting West Wing tenure.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Trump Is Governing by Grievance
The president still hasn’t learned to compartmentalize—a liability that will become more pronounced heading into the 2020 election.
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Erin Scott / Reuters / Gene J. Puskar ... Trump’s Biden Plan? It Could Get Dirty.
Should Biden remain atop the 2020 field, Donald Trump and his allies may attack the former vice president’s family.
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Steve Snowden / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Trump’s Chief of Staff Says He’s Having a Ball
Mick Mulvaney wants you to know that he’s no narc like John Kelly.
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Chip Somodevilla / Getty Trump’s Guardrails Are Gone
The president’s more pliant senior advisers might end up indulging his ultimately self-sabotaging behavior.
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Cliff Owen / Associated Press Who’s Afraid of the Mueller Report?
Trump aides are serenely confident that the special counsel’s fine print won’t hurt the boss.
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A Survival Guide for the Trump White House
Amid West Wing turnover that is “off the charts,” the survivors have mastered the art of praising the boss.
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Molly Riley / Associated Press Why Trump Is Serious About Herman Cain
The president is ready to nominate the former Godfather’s Pizza executive, seeking a more compliant Fed board.
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Alexander Drago / Reuters Trump Allies Change Their Tune on Rod Rosenstein
For his role in clearing the president of obstruction-of-justice charges, the deputy attorney general has gone from public enemy to potential savior.
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Patrick Semansky / Associated Press Trump Learns to Live With NATO—And Vice Versa
There are arguments over spending, and all manner of other issues. But the 70-year-old alliance has seen bad times before.
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Paul Sancya / AP Donald Trump’s Never-Ending Campaign Keeps Getting Angrier
His rallies and speeches seem untethered from any sort of policy agenda ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
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AP Inside Trump’s Strategy to Use Mueller on the Campaign Trail
Republican lawmakers and strategists fear that the president would be fixating on the wrong message at the wrong time.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Mueller Was Trump’s Nemesis—Now He’s His Greatest Asset
The president’s team is already spinning the special counsel’s conclusions as a plus for 2020.
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Nick Ut / AP Schwarzenegger Steps In to Defend John McCain’s Legacy
The former California governor called President Trump’s attacks on the late Arizona senator “absolutely unacceptable.”
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The White House Still Can’t Get the President’s Tweeting Under Control
His tweetstorm over the past 72 hours suggests that voters can expect many more Twitter tirades as legal and political pressures mount.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Senate Could Embarrass Trump Over His National Emergency
A sufficient number of Republicans are poised to band with the Democrats in opposition to the president’s border-wall funding.
