Trump's Constitutional Conflicts Are Exposed
The president loves the Constitution when it helps stop his advisers from testifying, less so when it’s used to demand the disclosure of his finances.
Three more terms?
Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images North AmericaJust before boarding Marine One on the south lawn of the White House on Monday evening, President Donald Trump was asked by a reporter why he was defying a Congressional subpoena seeking testimony from Don McGahn, his former counsel. McGahn was a key witness to the events weighed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller when he was deciding whether the president obstructed justice by trying to derail federal prosecutors’ Russia probe, but the Justice Department asserted in a legal memorandum on Monday that “Congress may not constitutionally compel the president’s senior advisers to testify about their official duties.”
Trump took that memo as a cue to order McGahn to stay mum.