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Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’ve had another “ambush” in the White House. Ambush, remember, means an unexpected attack on someone from a secretive place. That was not an ambush. Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, wanted that meeting with President Donald Trump. He requested it. And when he came in, he was prepared to refute Donald Trump.
In fact, if you look at the media before the meeting, they didn’t use the word “ambush.” They were giddy. They thought, “Wow, he’s going to give Trump a bill of goods.” What he didn’t think was that Trump was ready for the bill of goods and had his own bill of goods.
But here’s the…
