Posted on 11/07/2024 5:55:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CNN - Donald Trump believes presidents have almost absolute power. In his second term, there will be few political or legal restraints to check him.
The president-elect’s sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly turned the theoretical notion that he will indulge his autocratic instincts into a genuine possibility.
When Trump returns to the White House in January as one of the most powerful presidents in history, he’ll be able to take advantage of his own filleting of guardrails during his first presidency, which he continued through legal maneuverings out of office.
It’s not guaranteed that just because Trump has massive power he will spurn constitutional checks and balances. His past behavior doesn’t have to predict the future. But the lesson of Trump’s business and political careers is that he seeks to obliterate all constraints.
He has, for instance, crushed opposition in the Republican Party and driven out political heretics who oppose his “Make America Great Again” creed. This will be increasingly significant since the GOP has already flipped the Senate and still hopes to complete a monopoly on Washington power by keeping the House, which CNN has not yet projected.
No other president has come into office armed with a Supreme Court ruling that grants significant immunity to presidents for official acts. The decision, a direct result of Trump’s effort to challenge his federal indictment for 2020 election meddling, is limited — but he is certain to take an expansive view of its meaning. The ruling emerged from a conservative court majority fashioned by Trump in his first term and that many legal observers now see as a rubber stamp on future power grabs.
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Let them keep thinking that.
The Alt Left media cult learned nothing from Tuesday. Sill recklessly wantonly lying again today.
Author should read the first words of article II of the Constitution.
It says NOTHING about lifelong bureaucrats.
here we go with the fascist talk again, they never learn.
Memo to Dems: When marxist Kamala and losers like AOC are your standard bearers and you don’t see a problem, you have a problem.
The Trump administration complied with every single court order no matter how ridiculous. Biden regime tried every possible method to go around court jue3m3n5w
The neo Facists in the US are the Democrats.
lol
we can only HOPE that is the case!
LMAO
We can only hope and pray!
You mean like he did his first term?
A satisfying display of democrat butthurt.
Biden can ignore the law and let millions in, dictate what cars we can buy, and jail his enemies and Trump thinks he is a dictator.
these people are brain damaged...
No no the democrat’s President IS TOTAL POWER no matter what
Total power? Like Biden and student loan forgiveness? Or Biden and money to Ukraine and to the Palestinians? Like that?
The demoncrat propaganda media wing MSM WILL NEVER LEARN!.
We can never hate and distrust them enough.
I have a feeling at some point, maybe after the 26 midterms, he will step down and hand the reins to Vance. That’s why this VP pick was so crucial.
The concept of true patriotism is lost on these communists!
And gee, they did not seem to have a problem with Obama and his people bullying Bob Woodward and others. And not to mention about the IRS and it’s antics also under Obama towards certain people.
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