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This week on Dispatches from Clown World, Alexis and I try to get to the bottom of Trump’s alarming statement on Gaza. Are we taking over the Gaza Strip? How many Americans will die? What will it cost? Is this America First? Perhaps more importantly, are we just ethnically cleansing the place?
I’m a keen observer of Trump’s behavior, and in this particular instance I don’t know what game he is playing, though hope he is playing one because the plan as he said it is too crazy to be real. It must be said that at least Rubio came through with a much less dark but still unworkable, dangerous, and expensive explanation.
We have a whole raft of other topics: Senate confirmation hearings, USAID [and the great new search tool,] Democrats never learn, Pahlavi’s warning, Plane crashes/research drones, Kanye at the Grammy’s, the T…
