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Jackie Calmes

www.latimes.com
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articles (90 days)

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Calmes: Obama's strong terms curbed Iran. Trump struggles to secure even a weak deal
Since 2018, the president's actions have allowed Iran to rebuild its nuclear program. Now he is in a quagmire of his own creation.
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Calmes: Trump surrendered to China before he even landed there
The president has humiliated himself by sacrificing the U.S. economy and U.S. military readiness, handing victories to our geopolitical rival.
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Calmes: Trump's judicial nominees are fact-challenged and unfit
Wannabe federal judges are going along with the president's delusions for the sake of their careers. That should be disqualifying for a judge.
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Calmes: Americans aren't buying Trump's schtick anymore
A growing majority of Americans see Trump as a cartoonish caricature of himself. And that includes some of his own voters.
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Calmes: Even Trump's base doesn't believe him anymore
People who once stood behind the president's most favored conspiracy theories (birtherism) are now promoting theories in which he is the deceiver (Butler assassination attempt).
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Calmes: Pay attention to the deficit, even if Trump won't
President Trump said he would balance the federal budget "overnight." In reality, debt is now approaching the highest level in U.S. history.
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Calmes: We're stuck with an unchecked mad king until January
America has a president who lately has piled on the evidence that he is mentally unstable, unfit for the office.
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Calmes: Given everything in the news, why care about the White House demolition?
In a nation founded on ideals, after throwing off a king, the idea of a people's house that's not palatial is one worth protecting.
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Calmes: Trump's recklessness endangers the nation
He gutted counterterrorism in the U.S. government and then started a war with Iran, a notorious state sponsor of terrorism.
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Calmes: On Iran, Russia and China, Trump's weakness for strongmen explains his foreign policy
There is no Trump doctrine because this president is highly suggestible by authoritarians such as Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Calmes: Trump's address to Congress trumpets how he usurps Congress
Even just days after his own conservative Supreme Court reprimanded him for trying to take over lawmakers' role, the president was unashamed of his power grabs.
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