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The Roundtable

Journalist Peter Bergen discusses The Trump Administration and the world

By Joe Donahue

Published August 26, 2022 at 11:15 AM EDT

It is a simple fact that no president in American history brought less foreign policy experience to the White House than Donald J. Trump. "The Cost of Chaos" is Peter Bergen's riveting account of what happened when the unstoppable force of President Trump met the immovable object of America's national security establishment--the CIA, the State Department, and, above all, the Pentagon.

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