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The president’s decision to hold an international summit at his own private golf club, an idea rejected in his first term, illustrates how much he has shattered norms.
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President Trump's second term has been filled with instances of breaking norms, with the president inserting his opinion on Federal Reserve and Supreme Court decisions, and trying to put his name on the Kennedy Center. Former January 6th Committee investigator Tim Heaphy joins Peter Alexander to discuss the evisceration of standard protocols.
Media Matters President & CEO Angelo Carusone explains how Donald Trump and Todd Blanche shattered post-Watergate norms.
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More than 50 years after Watergate, the independence of the Justice Department is facing a new test after Attorney General Todd Blanche’s refusal to pledge DOJ independence from the White House. Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade joins MS NOW's Symone Sanders to explain why Blanche's position represents an "absolute distortion" of the post-Watergate norms designed to prevent presidential power from becoming personal power.
The defense secretary is upending decades-old norms, and current and former leaders say his proselytizing violates the Constitution and undermines troop cohesion.