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2 weeks agoTrump Brings Back Nixon's Dirtiest Trick: Weaponizing the IRS
It's no accident that Trump's power-hungry budget director, Russell Vought, has championed the audacious Nixonian doctrine of unlimited presidential power to "impound" (i.e., refuse to spend) money appropriated by Congress. Trump's insistence on personal diplomacy as the key to American power and world peace is reminiscent of the Nixon-Kissinger era of alliances made and unmade and wars launched and ended by secret presidential deals.
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