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    Trump Is Discovering New Powers

    He’s finding ever more risky ways to advance his personal agenda.
    by Peter Nicholas Sep 24, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Brendan McDermid / Reuters

    Updated on September 24, 2019 at 5:20 p.m. ET

    Knowing he was new to all this, White House aides took pains early in President Donald Trump’s term to chaperone him when he got on the phone with world leaders. Former National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster, the economic adviser Gary Cohn, and others would sit around the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office and listen to both ends of the conversation. Pens in hand, they’d slip notes to Trump on White House stationery advising him “Don’t answer,” or cautioning him to avoid a particular conversational detour that might prove embarrassing were it to get out. If Trump made a call on short notice, then–Chief of Staff John Kelly might tell the senior aides Robert Porter, Cohn, and others to “get your ass” down to the Oval Office right away so that the president would have

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