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> In other words, all it would do is prevent the type of activities that Trump finds personally threatening, without restraining him at all.

In other words, the president wants a check on the amount of power the executive branch can exercise. That is all I said. The sorts of activities it would prevent is irrelevant. If the set of activities allowed in the president's desired bill is a subset of those allowed previously, my statement would be true.




In your heart of hearts, do you think Donald Trump has ever uttered the words "executive branch"? Honest question.




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