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Trump Has Just One Trick—And It’s Not Working Anymore

The president has a single negotiating move: Take an aggressive position, and then retreat when the bluff is called.
Source: Korean Central News Agency via Reuters

During the 2016 campaign, Hillary Clinton often warned that Donald Trump would do to the United States what he had done to his businesses.

She was thinking of his record of debt, failure, and bankruptcy—about which The New York Times offered grim new details this week.

But there is an even more disturbing way that Clinton’s warnings are being fulfilled. North Korea has missile testing, disregarding

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