Politics & Government

Shock and awe in Davos

The annual confab of world leaders and CEOs provided a scenic Alpine backdrop to Trump and his flamethrower a year after he re-entered the Oval Office

ByJoseph Zeballos-Roig

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British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once quipped in 1964 that “a week is a long time in politics.” He never experienced Trump II. It feels like three years of events have been crammed into January — and the month isn’t over yet.

First there was the lightning U.S. military campaign on Jan. 3 that ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump to position himself as the triumphant administrator-in-chief of a new client state. A week later, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced he was under a criminal investigation by Trump’s Department of Justice. 

It stirred dissent among Republicans in Congress after a year of deferring to the president and his bottomless appetite to expand........

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