.MaddowBlog: Trump says more than he should've about intervening in DOJ cases
yesterday, which noted,"For decades after Watergate, the White House treated the Justice Department with the softest of gloves, fearful that any appearance of political interference would resurrect the specter of Attorney General John Mitchell helping President Richard M. Nixon carry out a criminal conspiracy for political ends."added that Trump's"ground-shaking conduct has demolished those once-sacrosanct guardrails.
That's right, and there's every reason to believe the president wants everyone to know it. By bragging about his professed ability to intervene in criminal cases -- whenever he wants, to any extent he wants -- Trump may very well want his allies to know they'll be protected, while simultaneously signaling to his enemies that they'll be hunted.
Those who feared John Mitchell carrying out Nixonian schemes have effectively been told their concerns have come to life -- and a half-century later, there are no longer Republicans on Capitol Hill prepared to tell their president,"No."noted this week,"The Constitution compels the president, among other things, to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed.' Since Mr.
That's true, though it's also true that the president may not know or care. In fact, Trump appears to have convinced himself of the opposite,as far back as late 2017,"I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department." And in the wake of his impeachment trial, in which the president was acquitted by GOP senators who acknowledged his guilt, isn't it likely Trump is asking himself,"Who's going to stop me?"
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