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Wednesday, March 30th, 2016

Transcript: Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views

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Source:     The New York Times
Publication Date:     March 26, 2016
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Stephan:   Tonight Ronlyn and I went to see Michael Moore's new movie Where to Invade Next. I urge you to go see it. It is SR made into a movie and it will leave you, at least it did us, with very conflicted emotions -- much as I feel many days doing SR itself. I came home after the movie to do today's edition, having picked some candidate stories and the first one I read was this extraordinary New York Times interview with Donald Trump.  As I read it I thought about the candidacies  of both Trump and Ted Cruz. Just looking domestically at the Red value states one can see what Trump's and Cruz's version of America looks like in miniature. The interview also made me consider their geopolitics, particularly Trump's.  All I could see was international contempt and endless geopolitical crisis. It's really rather scary.  
Donald J. Trump at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, earlier this month. In a telephone interview on Friday, Mr. Trump agreed with a suggestion that his foreign policy ideas might best be summed up as “America First.” Credit: Mark Makela/The New York Times

Donald J. Trump at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, earlier this month. In a telephone interview on Friday, Mr. Trump agreed with a suggestion that his foreign policy ideas might best be summed up as “America First.”
Credit: Mark Makela/The New York Times

Over two telephone conversations on Friday, Donald J. Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, discussed his views on foreign policy with Maggie Haberman and David E. Sanger of The New York Times. Here is an edited transcript of their interview (or just the highlights).

HABERMAN: I wanted to ask you about some things that you said in Washington on Monday, more recently. But you’ve talked about them a bunch. So, you have said on several occasions that you want […]

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