'A Plunge Into Crisis': How Foreign Correspondents Are Explaining the Comey Affair
When Donald Trump pictures the world, it’s often laughing. For decades he’s claimed that crafty foreign leaders are laughing at the incompetence of American politicians. On Thursday, in reference to alleged Russian interference in the U.S. presidential campaign, he tweeted that Russia “must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election.”
But something else is occurring now that Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey and partisan warfare has broken out in Washington. The world—or, more precisely, the small segment of the world inclined to care about an American law-enforcement official losing his job—seems not so much gleeful as alarmed and amazed
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