Trump is attacking Democrats with fake claims of 'presidential harassment.' It won't work.
The president doesn’t have a particularly strong grasp on American history, but this strategy is willfully ignorant of the Constitution.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers remarks while campaigning at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Oct. 22, 2016.Win McNamee / Getty Images file
March 9, 2019, 9:29 AM UTC
Sure enough, setting the tone for what is sure to be a dramatic March, Trump tweeted this week that “Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats" was at the "highest level in the history of our country.” This “presidential harassment” refrain is becoming an increasingly popular slogan for Trump as he attempts to fend off a flurry of congressional subpoenas and investigations.
In 1946, Congress passed and President Harry S. Truman signed into law the “Legislative Reorganization Act,” which strengthened congressional oversight and explicitly affirmed its mandate to conduct “continuous watchfulness” over the executive branch. And don't get me started on Watergate.
OpinionAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elijah Cummings prepare to battle Trump with re-energized House Oversight Committee
Trump is attacking Democrats with fake claims of 'presidential harassment.' It won't work.
The president doesn’t have a particularly strong grasp on American history, but this strategy is willfully ignorant of the Constitution.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers remarks while campaigning at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia on Oct. 22, 2016.Win McNamee / Getty Images file
March 9, 2019, 9:29 AM UTC
Sure enough, setting the tone for what is sure to be a dramatic March, Trump tweeted this week that “Presidential Harassment by ‘crazed’ Democrats" was at the "highest level in t
he history of our country.” This “presidential harassment” refrain is becoming an increasingly popular slogan for Trump as he attempts to fend off a flurry of congressional subpoenas and investigations.
In 1946, Congress passed and President Harry S. Truman signed into law the “Legislative Reorganization Act,” which strengthened congressional oversight and explicitly affirmed its mandate to conduct “continuous watchfulness” over the executive branch. And don't get me started on Watergate.
OpinionAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elijah Cummings prepare to battle Trump with re-energized House Oversight Committee