No. of Recommendations: 4
So, yes, I agree that what he is doing is legal, but he does get away with things that no other president ever has, polluting the national conscience and normalizing bad, even evil, behaviors.
Again, he's a lame duck whose indifference to normal political impacts cannot possibly be overstated. He's not "getting away" with anything when he makes statements about potentially arresting a sitting mayor if that mayor tries to (lawfully!) affect how federal officials operate within his jurisdiction. Trump suffers whatever the 'normal' political consequences of that type of rhetoric are - he just doesn't care, because he's not going to try to accomplish any of the things that require 'normal' politics to accomplish. He's decided to go all-in on just using the enormous powers of the Executive, and not worry at all about having any legislative agenda or helping his party accomplish any legislative agenda.
