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families. But first... When it comes to talking up military and diplomatic successes, President Donald Trump unfailingly

says that things are going just great. He claims to be in talks with the right people in Iran.

He says the country is talking sense that they want to make a deal with him so badly,

that to top it off, somehow there's a

mysterious gift involved. They did something yesterday that was amazing, actually. They gave us a

present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money.

Okay, sure, but wind back a tiny bit and listen to this framing.

We have really regime change.

You know, this is a change in the regime,

because the leaders are all very different than the ones that we started off with.

That regime change has already happened. Iran's rhetorical habit is to deny that any talks are happening, even if chatter is going

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