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American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part One: Manufacturing the Carnage)

The Intercept Briefing

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Aran Is Taking Over a Rack

When he took power, trump had inherited a multi decade campaign to undermine tonal oversight of the executive branch. This was one of the major career missions of people like donald rumsfeld, dick chaney and henry kissenger. They are extremest disciples of the theory of the unitary executive. Out of those notions of a presidency beyond the reach of congress to regulate come things like the torture programme,. Like the warrantless wire tapping programme. As commander in chief and head of the unitARY executive is not bound by laws that prohibit things like that, and he can secretly ignore them. Building on the programmes of his predecessors, trump soon gave the us Military and c i a expanded

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