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Eliot Engel: “He likes to play the part of the fireman when really he is the arsonist who started the fire in the first place.”

On the recordOctober 22, 2019
He likes to play the part of the fireman when really he is the arsonist who started the fire in the first place.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Critiquing the President's approach to foreign policy as reactive rather than proactive.

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