Jackie Calmes: Donald Trump is dangerously close to proving that presidents are above the law
How many times have you heard it? “No one is above the law.” Yet that aphorism of American democracy has been a myth when it comes to presidents. Fortunately, few presidents have shown such a penchant for criminality as Donald Trump. And none have done so to a more heinous end: threatening our very system of government. To stay in office, he worked to overturn a historically free and fair ...
by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times
Aug 03, 2022
3 minutes
How many times have you heard it? “No one is above the law.”
Yet that aphorism of American democracy has been a myth when it comes to presidents.
Fortunately, few presidents have shown such a penchant for criminality as Donald Trump. And none have done so to a more heinous end: threatening our very system of government. To stay in office, he worked to overturn a historically free and fair election and to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Even in failing, Trump undermined democracy; many millions of Americans, Republicans, wrongly believe President
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