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What Trump's choreographed Oval Office attack on Ramaphosa tells us

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What Trump's choreographed Oval Office attack on Ramaphosa tells usThe BBC's Gary O'Donoghue analyses how the South African president reacted in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting.
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