Trump’s First Fumble
Drama with Colombia and Looking Back on a Week of Chaos
What a week.
Since inauguration day we’ve seen the mass pardoning of insurrectionists, the unilateral overturn of the TikTok ban by the White House, a crypto scam involving the president and first lady, and the testimony of cabinet nominees like pro-Russian stooge Tulsi Gabbard and conspiracy-minded anti-vax activist RFK before congressional committees. In the midst of this political bluster, the Trump administration has experienced its first major foreign policy fumble in the form of a four-day political crisis with Colombia.
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