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Trump’s attacks sow chaos in Washington

Trump broke custom by delivering a political speech to the Boy Scouts’ national jamboree in Glen Jean, W.Va.

IT WAS A PERFORMANCE REVIEW NO employee wants to hear, delivered by an angry boss in a setting that broadcast the humiliation. Standing in the Rose Garden on July 25, President Donald Trump excoriated U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia investigation buffeting Trump’s Administration. “I’m very disappointed with the Attorney General,” the President fumed. Asked if he would fire Sessions, Trump said simply, “Time will tell.”

Trump’s latest bid to expel one of his earliest allies and his call for an investigation into vanquished rival Hillary Clinton may be

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