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    Don’t Blame Trump’s Advisers for Trump

    The tendency to look for a puppet master behind Trump’s actions is misguided.
    by Rosie Gray Jun 22, 2018 3 minutes
    Source: Leah Millis / Reuters

    Who can influence President Trump?

    Since the days of his presidential campaign, Trump-watchers have sought to explain his behavior by identifying whichever adviser influenced him on an issue. Trump’s critics see the president, ill-versed on policy, as an empty vessel for other people’s agendas. Liberals have focused on a rotating cast of Trump advisers as the villain of the moment, settling on whomever is deemed responsible for the latest Trump outrage.

    But the reality has always been that the director of the Trump Show is Trump, and that

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