What to make of Donald Trump now?
What to make of a president who powered a Middle East peace agreement that eluded Egypt, Qatar and France; who won an accord that matches and perhaps exceeds that of Jimmy Carter with Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat (1979) and Bill Clinton with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat (1993) — and who has dispatched federal troops to cities in his own country, used a government shutdown to fire federal workers and redefined the extent of executive power?
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