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Trump State Department in Chaos as Advisers Lose It at Each Other

Tensions inside the Trump administration are heating up, and the president’s appointees are at each other’s throats. Deputy Secretary of State Chirstopher Landau and State Department special envoy Paolo Zampolli have been trading insults and allegations for nearly a year, according to messages obtained by Politico . Zampolli, a former modeling agent who…

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