Analysis: Trump’s advice on Brexit may be useless — or worse
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— Donald Tusk March 20, 2019 For all the chaos in London, there is little celebration in other European capitals. If Britain leaves without a deal, it could have disastrous economic effects all across Europe. But across the Atlantic, some Washington officials were saying something different: You should have listened to President Trump.
In a recent interview with Sky News, former campaign manager Stephen K. Bannon recalled Trump giving May three pieces of advice: “Number one, overshoot the target on your deal because it will come apart. Number two, get on with it — you ought to be on terms agreed within six months — and number three use every arrow in your quiver even if you have to do litigation later.”
For complicated issues like the Irish border, there’s probably no one solution that could satisfy all these parties. Amanda Sloat, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs, said that even Trump’s apparently favored tactic — threatening to walk away without a deal — was incoherent; Britain has so much more to lose than other E.U. states.
Absent from this Don Jr. op-ed on Brexit is...any mention of what he thinks May should have actually done on Brexit.
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