Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, the general who overthrew Egypt’s elected government in 2013 and has ruled with an iron hand ever since, gets the same praise from Donald Trump that he has also heaped on Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and Vladimir Putin.
Takeaway line:
The candidates’ face time with him was unmerited and ill-advised, considering that Mr. Sissi, in addition to overseeing the extrajudicial killing or disappearance of thousands of Egyptians and the imprisonment of tens of thousands, has directed a vicious campaign against U.S. influence in his country. There was, however, a notable difference in the way that Mr. Trump and Ms. Clinton handled the strongman — one that reveals a substantive and important divide on foreign policy.
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“The Stark Difference between Trump’s and Clinton’s Meeting with a Dictator”