Norm Eisen explained this weekend how he believes Donald Trump — during the president’s first week back in the White House — is fulfilling his campaign promise to act like a “dictator.”
But Trump has “carried that forward through the entire week,” Eisen, the former Obama White House ethics lawyer, told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.
Trump’s Friday overnight firings of independent inspector generals “is a nakedly illegal action,” argued Eisen, who noted how they appeared to flout federal law of Congress requiring 30 days’ notice of and explanation for such a dismissal.
And it’s just one way in which Trump is “testing and pushing the limits,” Eisen continued, adding the president’s attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship to that list. That move is being challenged legally.
Trump has falsely claimed that a president firing IG’s is a “very common thing to do.” Eisen commented: “I agree with him on one thing. Yes, it’s a common thing to do, in a dictatorship, not in the United States of America.”
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