Barr ensures Congress can't stop Trump now (CNN tries to panic the public)

cnn.com ^ | 5.2.19 | Stephen Collinson

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Washington(CNN)Donald Trump was right: He can get away with almost anything -- a factor that is likely to mean an even more unchained presidency over the next 18 months.

All the reasons why Democratic efforts to check the President will likely fail were revealed in Attorney General William Barr's trial by fire on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and his refusal to submit to a second round before the fired-up House majority on Thursday.

The drama also showed that in the short span of a White House term, given certain partisan conditions, the modern political system will find it almost impossible to constrain a President -- especially one who poses such an overwhelming challenge to congressional custom as Trump.

Trump now has an attorney general, like a human block of granite, who sees few limits on presidential power and is willing to obfuscate and execute blocking movements on his behalf.

"He's an outstanding man. He's an outstanding legal mind," Trump said of Barr in an interview Wednesday night on the Fox Business network, adding that the attorney general did a "fantastic" job during the hearing.

After a day of taking lumps from minority Senate Democrats, Barr told the House Judiciary Committee he would not show up for a second day of testimony on Thursday.

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I didn’t add Lou Dobbs, Trish Reagan, Stuart Varney, Charles Payne or Maria Bartiromo because they’re all on Fox BUSINESS News, not FNC, aside from Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Morning Futures on FNC, which is the best Sunday show of all!