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attacks their entire Justice Department?" this person said. "It's insane." Law enforcement officials described described the public steps as part of a broader effort aimed at "laying the groundwork to fire" Mueller. "Who morning he would stay on at the Justice Department. Another Republican in touch with the administration general's days were numbered. Several senior aides were described as "stunned" when Sessions announced Thursday Sessions as increasingly distant from the White House and the FBI because of the strains of the Russia the president's decision to publicly air his disappointment with Sessions as a warning sign that the attorney going to recuse himself from the case. Some Republicans in frequent touch with the White House said they viewed with the New York Times Wednesday, the president said he never would have nominated Sessions if he knew he was investigation. Traditionally, Justice Department leaders have sought to maintain a certain degree of autonomy at Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Rosenstein, whose actions led to Mueller's appointment. In an interview dispute when Mueller, who was FBI director at the time, left the club. Trump also took public aim on Wednesday Mueller resigned as a member in 2011, two White House advisers said. A spokesman for Mueller said there was no allegation that Mueller and Trump National Golf Club in Northern Virginia had a dispute over membership fees when from the White House as a means of ensuring prosecutorial independence. But Sessions's situation is more Mueller, such as donations to Democrats by some of his prosecutors. Another potential conflict claim is an

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July (Saul Loeb / Getty) Commentary about Trump's behavior has tended to assume that presidential norms, once Among Trump's countless norm violations: giving an overtly political speech at the National Scout Jamboree, in broken, are hard if not impossible to restore. This can be true, but in Trump's case isn't. Presidents don't incapable of keeping his crass thoughts to himself, or of cloaking his speech in other-regarding principle. utility of exploiting that difference, " Henry Farrell and Martha Finnemore have noted in Foreign Affairs. He is can't "recognize the difference between what one professes in public and what one does in private, much less the campaign coordinated with Russia should spread into scrutinizing many years of Trump dealmaking. He has told legal questions that he and his family could face. His primary frustration centers on why allegations that his aides he was especially disturbed after learning Mueller would be able to access several years of his tax finances, advisers said. Trump has been fuming about the probe in recent weeks as he has been informed about the The president is also irritated by the notion that Mueller's probe could reach into his and his family's returns. Watch: Time lapse of solar eclipse over Depoe Bay, Oregon Reuters TV Pictures from the ground: Iraqi Department regulations that set rules for the job. Donald Trump's international Presidential trips 22 show all forces close in on Islamic State Reuters TV Duterte Slams U.S. for Suspending Arms Sale Reuters TV by Taboola possible grounds that can be cited by an attorney general to remove a special counsel from office under Justice our fiercest adversary to sway the 2016 election, or might have other inappropriate ties to Russian interests, is the most serious instance of potential presidential malfeasance since Watergate. In trying to influence the and balances have worked well thus far. The possibility that the president's inner circle might have colluded with investigation, Trump has acted much like Nixon did. He has pressured his senior intelligence and law-enforcement his agenda. The Constitution held. The still-unfolding russia investigation is a second context in which checks powerful man in the world complied with the edict of a little-known federal trial judge on an issue at the top of officials to help clear his name and fired the original lead investigator, FBI Director James Comey. Unlike Nixon, well as congressional reprisal, which would jeopardize his two-week-old presidency. Whatever the reason, the most convinced him that ignoring the ruling would spark resignations in the White House and the Justice Department, as Trump has also publicly attacked just about everyone involved in investigating him. And yet every institution has would appeal, rather than defy, Robart's injunction. We don't know why Trump acquiesced. Perhaps his staff essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!, " Trump wrote. He stood firm. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made his boss furious by following the Justice Department's rules and executive tweeted the first of many attacks against Robart. "The opinion of this so-called judge, which recusing himself from the matter because of his involvement in the Trump campaign. Many feared that the FBI's regularly interjected a self-regarding political element into apolitical events; he has monetized the presidency by linking it to his personal business interests; and he has engaged in cruel public behavior. The list goes on to fill senior political positions in many agencies; he has shown indifference to ethics concerns; he has party, the intelligence community, and even his own attorney general; he has failed to release his tax returns or and on. Presidential norm-breaking is neither new nor always bad. Thomas Jefferson refused to continue the the way; he has attacked the courts, the press, his predecessor, his former electoral opponent, members of his practice begun by George Washington and John Adams of delivering the State of the Union address in person before lies; he has shifted back and forth and back again on his policies, often contradicting Cabinet officials along is a norm-busting president without parallel in American history. He has told scores of easily disprovable public Congress, because he believed it resembled the British monarch speaking before Parliament. For the next 112 There is no canonical list of presidential norms. They are rarely noticed until they are violated. Donald Trump briefings, pay public respect to our allies, and not fire the FBI director for declining to pledge his loyalty. years, presidents conveyed the State of the Union in writing—until Woodrow Wilson astonished Congress by structure their actions. Norms, not laws, create the expectation that a president will take regular intelligence addressing it in person, a practice that once again settled into a norm. Wilson's novel step was part of a the least trusted of American institutions long before Trump assaulted it as the "enemy of the people" and the and how, in ways that many Americans, especially outside of big cities, find deeply biased. The press was among effect. The vast majority of elite journalists have a progressive outlook, which influences what gets covered, "lowest form of life." Members of the media viewed these attacks, correctly, as an effort by Trump to discredit, media, the decentralization of news production, and changing financial models. But Trump has had a distinct marginalize, and even dehumanize them. And they were shocked when the strategy worked. "The country was really norms that govern the news media. Journalistic practices, of course, were already evolving as a result of social this reason, the judiciary has a fighting chance to return to normal patterns. The same cannot be said of the angry at the elite, and that included us, and I don't think we quite had our finger on it, " Dean Baquet, the sober, respectful, low-temperature opinion sent a strong signal about the importance of judicial detachment. For national-security prerogatives seriously enough. The Court did not indicate how it will ultimately rule. But its executive editor of The New York Times, said with exquisite understatement during a roundtable discussion with unanimously ruled that, at a minimum, the lower-court injunctions were too broad and had failed to take his his reporters in June. Reporters are "binge-drinking the anti-Trump Kool-Aid, " Bob Woodward says. After the about Trump's second immigration order. The nine justices rarely agree on any issue of importance. 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