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Trump 'gambled' his presidency on one thing — and now can't stop losing

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Donald Trump took a massive risk, according to a new breakdown from The i Paper , when he " gambled everything " in his presidency on one thing, and now, it is a bet that he continues to lose. In a piece published Sunday, veteran Washington reporter Simon Marks wrote that, like clockwork, Trump has once again "backed down at the last minute" from his threats to carry out enormous strikes against Iran if a peace deal was not reached, this time just days after making the threats in the first place. This time around, Trump claimed, again, that a new deal is coming together, something that most observers might have a harder time believing, given how often he has made such claims. Marks noted that Trump has seemed to revel in his ability to move markets with his pronouncements about the Iran war, but this time, he argued, his claim is "unlikely to elicit more than a collective shrug by oil traders, let alone any drop in prices for struggling Americans." "Traders realized weeks ago that the

First report: Trump 'gambled' his presidency on one thing — and now can't stop losing — alternet.org, 9d