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The "repeal and replace" slogan of last year's campaign was presumed to be a done deal in the heady aftermath of the election, but these days it hangs by a thread.
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
The "repeal and replace" slogan of last year's campaign was presumed to be a done deal in the heady aftermath of the election, but these days it hangs by a thread.
The challenge now is to ensure that the cycle of destruction does not repeat itself.
Trump snr has repeatedly denounced charges of collusion with Russia as "fake news" and a "total hoax". That line of defence has now been blown out of the water.
The President's attempts to dance around Russian meddling in the 2016 election that brought him to power have been upended - by his own son.
Whatever the leaders, and their armies of spin doctors, say about their encounter in Hamburg should be taken with a grain of salt.
In 2003, the UN declared sexual abuse and exploitation reprehensible. But an investigation has tallied almost 2000 allegations against its peacekeepers and civilian staff since 2005.
Some analysts wonder if there a room in the German port city big enough to house the Trump and Putin egos.
Trump has told China that the United States will go it alone in confronting North Korea – without saying what that means.
"A clear victory for our national security," Trump declared. But people from the six "banned" countries will still enter, and the order may still fail the legal test.
In a nation of 320 million people, it could fall to one self-effacing man to erase America's rotten boroughs and change the map of the country for years to come.
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