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The Note: Tests for Trump's 'attitude' on the world stage - ABC News

posted onJune 12, 2018
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Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein Attitude is everything, unless of course it leads to nothing. Now that we know that as he put it– and that it could lead to a White House invitation, unless there’s a reason to return to “maximum pressure” – Trump has managed to open up the range of options in a way that downplays expectations. Yet Trump’s biggest foray onto the world stage, starting with the G7 summit in Canada on Friday, puts the emerging Trump leadership style to its most strenuous tests yet. He figures to be an isolated figure in both Quebec and Singapore – only partly by design. As Trump has shown domestically in recent days, his style is situational, transactional, and confrontational all at once. In a world where words can matter – ahem, John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani – Trump’s concession about his own level of preparation is stark: “I don’t think I have to prepare very much,” the president said Thursday. “It's about attitude, it's about willingness to get things done.” Central to Trump’s attitude at this moment is his faith in himself. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks The day after the most populous state in the union held its primary, leaders in the most populous county in that state held a hearing to start looking at what went wrong. More than 118,000 names were left off voter rosters in Los Angeles County on primary election day this week. In 2018, when there has been so much swirling around election safety, security and reliability, it is no... Link to the full article to read more

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