<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: Fighting Words
What We’re Following
Trump at the UN: In his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump declared the U.S. ready and willing to “totally destroy North Korea” in defense of itself or its allies—a dangerous assertion, since the effects of using force in North Korea would be serious and tragic. He also implied that he may withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran that the U.S. entered under President Obama. Overall, writes Peter Beinart, the speech was a direct rebuke of Obama’s previous emphasis on international cooperation, and an advancement of Trump’s own inconsistent ideas of sovereignty.
New reports on the federal investigation into Paul Manafort say that Trump’s about the probe and its findings so far, but they that he himself was wiretapped by the Obama administration. Rather, they likely spell continued legal trouble for Trump’s team—which is now to pay his legal fees.
