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Disruption Takes Over the G7

August 24, 2019 at 7:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump has generally been outnumbered at summits like the G7 — the disrupter-in-chief in a room of more sober-minded leaders. This time around, disruption is the rule,” Axios reports.

“French President Emmanuel Macron, who’s hosting the summit this weekend in the seaside town of Biarritz, warned ahead of the gathering that twin threats to democracy and capitalism must be vanquished in order to ensure a free and prosperous future. For this weekend, though, he’d probably settle for anything short of disaster.”

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