There’s a long-running theory that President Trump deliberately floods the news cycle with outrage after outrage to distract from more dangerous moves happening beneath the surface.
But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the flood of tell-all memoirs and insider accounts from his first term, it’s this: there was no grand strategy — just chaos.
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