Less than a fortnight ago, the new United States leader publicly repeated a startling phrase that had become common enough during his blunt and divisive campaign to reach the White House. Donald Trump casually declared he would have conducted the 2003 invasion of Iraq differently and “kept the oil.”
Introducing his pick Mike Pompeo to head the country’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) this January, President Trump admitted, “Now I said it for economic reasons,” in a televised address at the service’s Langley, Virginia headquarters.
