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[CapX] Trump's Latest Conspiracy Isn't Entirely Wrong

Penalizing America is the effect of EU policies — not the bloc's raison d'être.

Jorge González-Gallarza
1 min readAug 3, 2020
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen meeting Donald Trump (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s pronouncements are so riddled with half-baked conspiracy theories that debunking them has turned into something of a journalistic pastime. Sometimes, though, he does inadvertently come out with something that merits closer inspection — such as his recent claim that the European Union was “formed to take advantage of the US”.

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Jorge González-Gallarza
Jorge González-Gallarza

Written by Jorge González-Gallarza

Writing from Paris, Jorge's work has featured in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Conservative, The National Interest and elsewhere.

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