Donald Trump has always been a man of absolutes. Absolutism was the unwritten credo of his career in business and is the guiding light of his presidency as he makes an assertion rarely heard from an American president: that he can do as he pleases. Now that approach faces its ultimate test as a foundation
Something is the best or the worst, a person is a winner or a total loser, an event has never happened before, even when it has.
“I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” Trump declared last year, citing Article II of the Constitution. “It gives me all of these rights at a level nobody has ever seen before.” Story continues“President Trump has not in any way ‘abused the powers of the Presidency,’" they argued."At all times, the president has faithfully and effectively executed the duties of his office on behalf of the American people.”
The American Revolution was fought so that “no person, including and especially the president, would be above the law," Schiff told the Senate on Wednesday."Nothing could be more dangerous to a democracy than a commander in chief who believed that he could operate with impunity, free from accountability.”
During his impeachment trial President Bill Clinton didn't assert executive privilege nearly as much — he gave his DNA, handed over documents and allowed staff to participate. Republicans who controlled the House impeached him on the charges of obstructing justice and lying to a grand jury in connection with his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
“Most of the modern presidents have tended to take a pretty expansive view of the meaning of Commander in Chief powers,” Wooley said.
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