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Nobody owns Donald Trump — including his Israel-hating ex-allies

We’ve long known that Donald Trump drives his critics crazy, and he’s now doing it to some critics who used to be friends. 

The isolationist right is convinced that President Trump is waging the Iran War on Israel’s behalf, which would make him the handmaiden of a foreign power. 

That should be a familiar-sounding charge, since Democrats and the legacy media spent most of Trump’s first term making the same accusation — except the foreign puppeteer was Russia. 

Now, “Russia, Russia, Russia,” as Trump often puts it, has become “Israel, Israel, Israel.”

All of this is misbegotten, first and foremost, because we have never had a president who is so thoroughly his own man as Donald Trump.

Good luck trying to control him, as so many advisers and consultants have learned over the years.

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There are very few things he’s done as president where you’ve thought, “Oh, that’s so unlike him.”

That includes firing FBI Director James Comey in his first term, one........

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