"I think she sees herself as part of a public servant family, and she doesn’t want to waste this time by not putting forward some effort to try and help the world."
"And so, I think that’s what she’s doing is fighting for small businesses in our country, fighting for women entrepreneurs, fighting to make sure that we are not only being just good with the United States, but we’re also internationally doing our part, whether it’s poverty or famine or whether we see it’s migration, and so those are the things I think that she’s working on, and I think she’s been very well accepted nationally and internationally."

I fear that we're trapped in a cosmic moment where Warhol collaborates with Fellini, with the soundtrack scored by David Lynch.

"There is a tendency among some hopeful souls to confuse the speeches written for Mr. Trump with the thoughts of the man himself. He did make some interesting, scripted, observations in Poland about defending the values of the West. And Mr. Trump is in a unique position -- he is the one man who has the power to do something about it. But it is the unscripted Mr. Trump that is real." (Emphasis is mine.)

Australian journalist Chris Uhlmann's quietly devastating analysis of President* Trump's performance in Hamburg deserves serious consideration by any and all Americans who value the opinions of our country's closest and staunchest allies.

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Friday, July 7 [...] that morning, a marauding gang was raging through the Hamburg neighborhoods of Ottensen and Altona, setting cars on fire by the dozens. Later in the day, a mob raged for hours in the alternative Schanzenviertel neighborhood, long a hotbed of leftist activity. They broke windows, lit barricades on fire, looted stores and threatened to kill police. Many would later say hyperbolically that it was like "a war zone." Others described the scene as anarchy -- as though the state had receded before the mob.
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[M]any high-ranking officials were skeptical from the very beginning about holding a G-20 summit in a large city like Hamburg. One official predicted "ugly scenes." After all, Hamburg is the center of Germany's far-left autonomous movement. Leftist radicals in the city have access to effective structures and sophisticated logistics.
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Even the prediction by authorities that up to 8,000 potentially violent left-wing extremists could converge on the city did little to deter the decision-makers. "Politicians carry sole responsibility for the numerous police officers who have been injured and for the destruction wrought in the city," says Jan Reinecke, the head of the state chapter of the union that represents Germany's detectives. "Hamburg never should have been the venue for the G-20 summit."