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Trump unbound: the making of an imperial presidency

Trump unbound: the making of an imperial presidency

Politics Weekly America vor 2 Monaten

Jonathan Freedland speaks to the New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan, co-author of Regime Change, about how Donald Trump has changed the presidency

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Donald Trump’s second term is unlike his first. The politicians who
challenged him are gone. The lawyers who once pushed back now
choose their battles. What remains is an imperial president with
almost no internal checks, using executive power to reshape
everything from the economy, immigration and even the presidency
itself. Few journalists have covered Trump as closely as the New
York Times journalist Jonathan Swan. Jonathan Freedland speaks to
him about how the president has consolidated such power – and what
it could mean for the US and the world