The President of the United States recorded a possibly apocryphic quote that Napoleon Bonaparte is often attributed to social media on Saturday: “Whoever saves his country does not violate a law.”
This is an incessantly stupid thing for a president – at least not absent in the situation in which a lawyer told him: “Mr. President, you can destroy a nuclear on this assteroid of planets without first receiving an environmental impact declaration and allowing the legally required 90-day public commentary period. “
I don't want to be excessively smooth. An American president who means that he is above the law because he “saves” his country is a serious thing. It is even more serious if the idea that we are exposed to an existential crisis that requires a hero on a white horse to save us, made by the president and his allies.
The best defense of President Trumps Brain bloating is that he was the one who was Glib. Reince Priebus, who acted as the chief of staff of the White House during Trump's first term, said so much about ABC News' this week “:” It's entertainment for Trump. It is a distraction. “
“I lived through that,” added Priebus. “In good times, in bad times, the president likes to take out a grenade on a Saturday afternoon, throw them on the floor and watch how everyone reacts. … there is no disadvantage. “
I said it was the best defense; I didn't say it was a good defense.
To be honest, I don't know what Priebus means when Trump's trolling “There is no disadvantage”. Millions of Americans – friends and enemies – alike – the impression that the president is megalomanically contemptuous is not good for anyone.
President – all presidents – rely on a certain degree of trust and willingly, not only from their allies, but also from their opponents. In a real crisis, the public and the opposition party must believe that the presidential authority is exercised for selfless reasons. If you long for crises to maximize your power, people are less likely to trust them to deal with an actual crisis.
Since Priebus may be right that Trump was mainly motivated by boredom, it is impossible to be confident about the intention of his Napoleonic testimony. But it fell together with a much more serious controversy: Trump's decision to suspend public corruption against the Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams.
Until recently, Danielle Sassoon claimed Manhattan's top public prosecutor that Trump's suspension of the case was plans. Indeed, Trump's political henchman in justice that acted deputy Atty. Gen. Emil Bove, argumented that the continuation of the law enforcement of “the ability of the defendant to rule in New York City” and restrict Adams' ability to deal with “illegal immigration and violent crime” – a top priority in the efforts of the president, as he would express it, America.
Adams and Trump's Ministry of Justice refuse the alleged consideration. BOVE even said that the Ministry of Justice had corrupt reasons for the introduction of Adams' federal investigation, which has not guilty, to take into account charges that it accepted bribes from Turkish citizens. The implication is that the Ministry of Justice of Biden Rankly was political and Trump corrects an illegitimate law enforcement.
If that was true, you wonder why Trump did not lean so willful hacks as a federal prosecutor. The answer is, of course, that they are not hacks.
Sassoon, whom Trump had only promoted to the provisional US lawyer a few weeks earlier, resigned more than the instructions of the department, and she was accompanied by six other federal prosecutors, all of which were inaugurated with the facts and relevant internal negotiations. When the aspiring conservative star was created in her eight -sided master Resignation letterThe use of the impending law enforcement to force cooperation with the President's political agenda is an unbearable attack on the judicial administration. The Trump government wants the case against Adams to only be suspended so that it can still be dangled as a sword of Damocles to ensure his obedience, which is the definition of the weapons of the criminal judiciary. Bove's threat is to examine the resigned prosecutors because it refuses to fulfill herself.
This is the decisive context of Trump's claim that the president cannot violate the law if he “saves” the country. Perhaps he thought it was just an entertaining quote, as Priebus suggests. But in view of what we know, it looks less like trolling and more like a confession.