CRAZY: President Donald Trump GRILLED at Press Conference THEN SLAMS FAKE NEWS REPORTERS Trump Tower

CRAZY: President Donald Trump GRILLED at Press Conference THEN SLAMS FAKE NEWS REPORTERS Trump Tower Republicans will likely perpetuate his strategy. Many on the right increasingly agree with a point Ron Unz, the trajectories. And because Trump's extreme media-bashing is perceived to have served him relatively well, other influential former publisher of The American Conservative, made in a memo last year. "The media is the crucial force empowering the opposition and should be regarded as a primary target of any political strategy, " Unz wrote. "Discrediting the media anywhere weakens it everywhere." Citizens' trust in American institutions has been in decline for a while. That's one reason Donald Trump was elected. His assault on those institutions, and the those questions are no and yes, respectively. The media have every incentive to continue on their current defiant reactions to his assault, will further diminish that trust and make it yet harder to resolve social and political disputes. The breakdown in institutions mirrors the breakdown in social cohesion among citizens that was also a major cause of Trumpism, and that Trumpism has churned further. This is perhaps the worst news of all for our democracy. As Cass Sunstein lamented in his book #Republic, "Members of a democratic public will not do terms of the relationship between the person in the White House, people in power, and the media?" The answers to well if they are unable to appreciate the views of their fellow citizens, if they believe 'fake news, ' or if they see one another as enemies or adversaries in some kind of war." To that depressing conclusion I will add another. The relatively hopeful parts of the analysis offered here—that the Constitution has prevented

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"witch hunt." But now, Trump is coming face-to-face with a powerful investigative team that is able to study evidence of any crime it encounters in the probe — including tax fraud, lying to federal agents and interference in the investigation. READ MORE Donald Trump said Japan's First Lady doesn't speak English, she does Republicans The president has long called the FBI investigation into his campaign's possible coordination with the Russians a confirm judicial nominee who compared abortion to slavery Donald Trump doesn't seem to know how much health insurance costs Trump appoints man who think climate science is 'junk' to post "This is Ken Starr times 1, 000, " said one lawyer involved in the case, referring to the independent counsel who oversaw an investigation that eventually led to House impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. "Of course, it's going to go into several years ago, " Sekulow said. "In our view, this is far outside the scope of a legitimate investigation." his finances." Following Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James B. Comey — in part because of his displeasure with the FBI's Russia investigation — Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel in a written order. That order gave Mueller broad authority to investigate links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, as well as "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the Beach mansion from Trump for $95 million in 2008. "They're talking about real estate transactions in Palm Beach investigation" and any crimes committed in response to the investigation, such as perjury or obstruction of

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Russian probe, convened a meeting with the president and his team of lawyers, according to two people briefed on the meeting. Cobb, who is not yet on the White House payroll, was described as attempting to instill some discipline in how the White House handles queries about the case. But Trump surprised many of his aides by speaking at length about the probe to the New York Times two days later. Cobb, who officially joins the White House team at the end of the month, declined to comment for this article. Some note that the Constitution does the investigation. On Monday, lawyer Ty Cobb, newly brought into the White House to handle responses to the not explicitly prohibit a president from pardoning himself. On the other side, experts say that by definition a pardon is something you can only give to someone else. There is also a common-law canon that prohibits individuals from serving as a judge in their own case. "For example, we would not allow a judge to preside over his or her own trial, " Kalt said. A president can pardon an individual at any point, including before the person have tried to temper Trump, urging him to simply cooperate with the probe and stay silent on his feelings about is charged with a crime, and the scope of a presidential pardon can be very broad. President Gerald Ford pardoned former president Richard M. Nixon preemptively for offenses he "committed or may have committed" while in donald trump is testing the institution of the presidency unlike any of his 43 predecessors. We have never had a president so ill-informed about the nature of his office, so openly mendacious, so self-destructive, or so brazen is wielding a Soprano touch on American institutions. "I'm fucking King Midas in reverse here, " Tony Soprano once told his therapist. "Everything I touch turns to shit." The framers of the constitution wanted to create a powerful, independent executive branch, but they didn't want to stoke fears that the new United States would replicate the monarchy from which it had just separated. Confident that George Washington would be the first chief executive and would use his power responsibly, they established an unstructured office with ambiguous authorities. harmful norm-breaking by the institutions he has attacked. These changes will be harder to undo. Trump, in short, Article II vests the president with "executive Power, " but it doesn't define the term, and it gives the president only a few rather modest enumerated powers. RELATED STORIES How Trump Is Ending the American Era The First White President The Mind of Donald Trump These vague constitutional contours allowed the presidency to grow, in response to changes in society and the world, into a gargantuan institution that the Framers never could have rest of our democratic culture is grimmer, however. Trump's bizarre behavior has coarsened politics and induced foreseen. The president's control over the bully pulpit, federal law enforcement, and the national-security establishment has made the office the dominant force in American government and a danger to constitutional liberties. The flexible structure of the office has meant that it is defined largely by the person who occupies it—his character, competence, and leadership skills. Great presidents, such as Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and executive branch would pursue review in higher courts. And 10 hours later, at 8:12 a.m., the incensed chief executive tweeted the first of many attacks against Robart. "The opinion of this so-called judge, which statement declaring that the Justice Department would seek to stay the "outrageous order, " which meant that the essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!, " Trump wrote. He would appeal, rather than defy, Robart's injunction. We don't know why Trump acquiesced. Perhaps his staff convinced him that ignoring the ruling would spark resignations in the White House and the Justice Department, as well as congressional reprisal, which would jeopardize his two-week-old presidency. Whatever the reason, the most can imagine him ranting deliriously after Robart issued his decision. But at 10:05 p.m., the White House put out a powerful man in the world complied with the edict of a little-known federal trial judge on an issue at the top of his agenda. The Constitution held. The still-unfolding russia investigation is a second context in which checks and balances have worked well thus far. The possibility that the president's inner circle might have colluded with our fiercest adversary to sway the 2016 election, or might have other inappropriate ties to Russian interests, is tapes to a special prosecutor, Nixon famously acquiesced. Would Trump? We can imagine that he didn't want to. We the most serious instance of potential presidential malfeasance since Watergate. In trying to influence the investigation, Trump has acted much like Nixon did. He has pressured his senior intelligence and law-enforcement Trump and Putin shared second undisclosed meeting at G20 Jay Sekulow, one of the president's private lawyers, said in an interview Thursday that the president and his legal team are intent on making sure Mueller stays within the boundaries of his assignment as special counsel. He said they will complain directly to Mueller if necessary. "The fact is that the president is concerned about conflicts that exist within the special counsel's the president's tax returns would be outside that investigation, " said a close adviser to the president. office and any changes in the scope of the investigation, " Sekulow said. "The scope is going to have to stay within his mandate. If there's drifting, we're going to object." Sekulow cited Bloomberg News reports that Mueller is scrutinizing some of Trump's business dealings, including with a Russian oligarch who purchased a Palm Beach mansion from Trump for $95 million in 2008. "They're talking about real estate transactions in Palm Beach departure. Corallo did not respond to immediate requests for comment. "If you're looking at Russian collusion, several years ago, " Sekulow said. "In our view, this is far outside the scope of a legitimate investigation." The president has long called the FBI investigation into his campaign's possible coordination with the Russians a "witch hunt." But now, Trump is coming face-to-face with a powerful investigative team that is able to study evidence of any crime it encounters in the probe — including tax fraud, lying to federal agents and interference lawyers, the team's spokesman, Mark Corallo, resigned on Thursday, according to two people familiar with his CRAZY: President Donald Trump GRILLED at Press Conference THEN SLAMS FAKE NEWS REPORTERS Trump Tower