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As often happens, the title is the least interesting thing in the article
Ex-Aide: Trump Cited ‘Magical Authorities’ to Ignore Law
So....does the Constitution confer unlimited magical powers to the President, and did that also apply to Obama ?
Public poll, so we know who to mock.
Ex-Aide: Trump Cited ‘Magical Authorities’ to Ignore Law
Trump has repeatedly claimed in public to have unlimited powers. “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” he said last year. “When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total,” he asserted this year.
Taylor reveals that Trump not only cited these unlimited (“magical”) powers, but used them as a kind of shorthand to cut off any advice that one of his proposals was illegal. “A lot of times the things he wanted to do not only were impossible but in many cases illegal. He didn’t want us to tell him it was illegal anymore because he knew, and these were his words, he knew that he had ‘magical authorities,’” he recounts.
So....does the Constitution confer unlimited magical powers to the President, and did that also apply to Obama ?
Public poll, so we know who to mock.