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Trump meets the DC foreign policy establishment

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump rolls out his "America First" foreign policy speech, leaving many unanswered questions about his plans to secure the United States and stabilize the world's trouble spots.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a foreign policy speech at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, US April 27, 2016.          REUTERS/Jim Bourg  - RTX2BXBK
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WASHINGTON — Reading from a teleprompter, Republican presidential front-runner Donald J. Trump addressed the Washington foreign policy establishment at a speech at Washington’s Mayflower Hotel on April 27, calling for a less interventionist US foreign policy that values stability over democracy, and which would put America first.

“In the Middle East, our goals must be to defeat terrorists and promote regional stability, not radical change,” Trump said in the rare foreign policy address, hosted by the Center for the National Interest, a Washington think tank associated with the Nixon administration, and its journal, The National Interest.

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