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Italian Populist Leader ‘Very Optimistic’ About Trump Presidency

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. The leader of Italy’s populist Five Star Movement (M5S) said that he is “very optimistic” about the Trump presidency, which will reignite the American economy and stop playing world police enforcer. In an interview Sunday with the French magazine Journal du Dimanche, M5S founder and chief Beppe Grillo expressed his fundamental agreement with Trump’s presidential platform, calling him a “moderate” whose image has been distorted. “I read one of his books,” says Grillo, “in which he says some really sensible things on the need, for example, to bring economic activity back to the United States…. View Article