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Trump tries presidential, before reverting to old habits

The President attacked the press and fellow Republicans at a raucous Aug. 22 event in Phoenix

FOR ABOUT A DAY IT SEEMED THAT President Donald Trump had embraced the part of his job that is not just tweets and bluster. Standing in an auditorium of enlisted military—with much of his war Cabinet in the front row looking somber—the President checked his gut on Afghanistan, the U.S.’s longest war. “My original instinct was to pull out,” Trump said on Aug. 21, brushing aside his years of mouthing off against

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