President of Haiti

evasive resilient strategic

Rebel forces choke Haiti's capital in gunfire and seized airwaves, forcing the President of Haiti into a car trunk for desperate smuggling to U.S. embassy sanctuary. His clandestine evasion catapults the coup into Oval Office crosshairs, where Bartlet staff weigh extraction against intervention taboos, stranding 600 Americans alongside his peril. This besieged leader sharpens resolve amid chaos, his survival threading U.S. power through sovereign fracture—trunk shadows embodying raw stakes in a multi-front siege.

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S2E21 · 18th and Potomac

Josh Presses Ritter on Tobacco Funding Amid Haitian Absurdity

Desperate survival (inferred from context)

Referential catalyst: Ritter marvels at his smuggling to U.S. embassy in a car trunk amid coup chaos, framing the surreal international absurdity that underscores Josh's domestic lobbying desperation.

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