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Tom Wright
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Senior Fellow @BrookingsFP. contributing writer @TheAtlantic, Formerly Biden NSC, Author of All Measures Short of War, co-author of Aftershocks. Views my own.
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    Tom Wright
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    Apr 20
    Some news. I have a short Penguin special (just 25,000 words) coming out as part of a @LowyInstitute paper series on April 28. It's called Inflection Point: Biden, Trump, and the Future World Order. It's partly a memoir with reflections on my time in the Biden administration
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    Inflection Point: Biden, Trump, and the Future World Order | A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin...
    From a Biden administration insider, an account of how global crises were managed and a warning of what is to come.
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    Tom Wright
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    Dec 25, 2021
    Back in Ireland for Christmas and have to give my incredible brother Peter a shout out. He had a Covid close contact so couldn’t attend Christmas dinner so pulled up a van by the dining room window in torrential rain, fitting it out w/ lights and a table, and ate alongside us
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    Tom Wright
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    Nov 8, 2019
    Mike Bloomberg’s first major campaign move should be to buy Fox News.
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    Tom Wright
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    Apr 17, 2020
    Trump tweeted twelve times today but not once— not a word of sympathy or remembrance— for the 4,591 Americans who died yesterday alone.
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    Tom Wright
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    Mar 12, 2020
    Tom Hanks would not have qualified for a COVID-19 test in America.
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    Tom Wright
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    Aug 21, 2019
    This is no longer funny. Danish troops fought alongside the US in Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 Danes died. The president dishonors the alliance and their sacrifice. On the same day he sought to appease Putin by supporting his return to the G8.
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    Donald J. Trump
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    Aug 20, 2019
    Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time....
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    Tom Wright
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    Jun 14, 2018
    Biggest story you're likely missing right now: Merkel in an internal party crisis in Germany (over migration) and could lose a confidence vote this week, leading to her resignation. Situation in Berlin on a knife edge.
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    Tom Wright
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    Feb 7, 2018
    Elon Musk is an immigrant, born in South Africa
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    Donald J. Trump
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    Feb 7, 2018
    Congratulations @ElonMusk and @SpaceX on the successful #FalconHeavy launch. This achievement, along with @NASA’s commercial and international partners, continues to show American ingenuity at its best!
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    Tom Wright
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    Dec 13, 2017
    Jones won't be seated till Dec 26 or Jan 3. When Scott Brown won the MA senate race in 2010, Harry Reid & Obama said they would not ram through a vote on health care until he was seated. McConnell shld follow their example and hold no new votes on tax reform until Jones is seated
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    Tom Wright
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    Jun 11, 2021
    My colleague Fiona Hill, who staffed the summit for Trump, told the BBC that Helsinki was so bad that she considered faking a medical emergency just to disrupt it.
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    Laura Rozen
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    Jun 10, 2021
    Helsinki was one of the low points of his presidency. Trump remembers it fondly, in one of his more psychotic statements
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    Tom Wright
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    Jan 25, 2020
    The unavoidable reality is Pompeo never would have been in contention for a senior level appointment in a normal GOP administration. He was promoted beyond his abilities because so many people were ruled out. The delta between what’s required & what he has is now on full display.
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    Robbie Gramer
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    Jan 25, 2020
    Official response from Pompeo about his NPR interview. Haven’t seen anything like this before with a State Department seal on it:
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    Tom Wright
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    Sep 4, 2020
    Much being made of why former or current Trump administration officials won’t go on the record. As someone who has occasionally quoted such sources in essays, the reasons they have given me for anonymity include concern for their personal safety and that of their families.
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    Tom Wright
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    Dec 23, 2020
    Mitch McConnell in Senate Hearings in Feb 2001 on Bill Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich: "While the president alone possesses the power to pardon, it's imp to remember that he is not personally exempt from federal laws that prohibit the corrupt actions of all government officials."
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    Tom Wright
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    Oct 29, 2017
    Amazing how many people don't understand this basic but vital point
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    Steve Inskeep
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    Oct 29, 2017
    Hiring a British agent to examine a candidate’s ties to Russia isn’t “colluding with Russia.” But coordinating info ops w Russia would be.