Accountability Is Everything
The ubiquitous question posed during the Trump presidency—“Can he do that?”—continues to be the wrong question.
by Kimberly Wehle http://www.theatlantic.com/author/kimberly-wehle/?utm_source=scribd
Jun 10, 2023
3 minutes
Many people believed that a federal indictment of Donald Trump for his mishandling of classified information would never come—that the rule of law simply could not withstand the virulence and impetuousness of this one man and his cowardly enablers, that Attorney General Merrick Garland lacked the fortitude to weather the political fallout of indicting a former president, and that Trump’s signature outmaneuvering would carry the day—as if he really were a king.
The ubiquitous question posed during the Trump presidency—can he do that?—continues to be the wrong question. The real question is
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