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    A Thought Experiment About SEAL Team 6 Goes Terribly, Terribly Wrong

    Pressed in court, Trump’s lawyers made an argument that would destroy nearly all limitations on presidential power.
    by David A. Graham Jan 09, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Anna Moneymaker / Getty; Getty.

    Donald Trump has always displayed authoritarian impulses, but the Trump who is running for president now is not the same as the Trump who ran in 2016. He is more ruthless, more dangerous, and more authoritarian than before. And today in a federal court in Washington, D.C., with Trump present, his attorneys offered perhaps the boldest assertion of power that any major American candidate has ever made.

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