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Trump’s mob boss approach to global markets will backfire

The US president has discovered that it is easier to shake down a law firm than to reshape the international trading system.

December 2024

The ABC News ticker in Times Square.

‘Libel warfare’: ABC payout to Trump sends chill across US media

There are now fears that Trump, who has threatened libel lawsuits against news media for decades, could use presidential power to muzzle the press.

September 2020

"Presidents have a large obligation to inform, warn, protect, to define goals … Trump has, instead, enshrined personal impulse as a governing principle of his presidency," Bob Woodward writes in his new book "Rage".

Bob Woodward on Trump: 'The wrong man for the job'

In an exclusive extract from his new book 'Rage', award-winning journalist Bob Woodward lights a fuse beneath the US president.

Kim Jong-un shakes hands with US President Donald Trump in June 2019.

Donald Trump's romance with Kim Jong-un laid bare

Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a deeply personal courtship between the two leaders of long-hostile nations that has few precedents in diplomatic history but it is set to end in heartbreak.

Donald Trump wears a mask after earlier playing down the seriousness of the virus infection.

Not all of America's virus failures are Trump's

I have argued that the blundering of the Trump administration, while real and deadly, may not be responsible for the bulk of America's coronavirus fatalities.

Students social distance at a school in Los Angeles, although most students are still learning from home.

Education will be a pivotal issue in the US election

American families' anger over months of home schooling due to the mishandling of the crisis has made education a key election issue, and may be why Trump trails Biden.

Donald Trump after Bob Woodward revealed the president intentionally downplayed the threat of the coronavirus. Photographer: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Bloomberg

Trump tells Woodward he deliberately played down COVID-19 dangers

'This is deadly stuff,' the President told the journalist in early February, when he was telling Americans COVID-19 was no worse than the flu.

June 2020

Senior aides described Donald Trump as "delusional".

Trump's phone calls with world leaders alarmed aides, says CNN

Carl Bernstein claims Mr Trump was so abusive to American allies the phone calls convinced senior US officials the President posed a national security risk.

November 2019

Richard Nixon announces his resignation from the Oval Office.

Between Nixon and Trump, a collapse in trust

Middle America decided that Richard Nixon's behaviour was unacceptable. Clinton and Trump's impeachment proceedings are seen merely as partisan payback.

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