Pre-Owned Donald Trump V. the United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President (Hardcover) 1984854666 9781984854667

Goddamn it, Trump said to his aides, he was president of the United States. He needed to take the law into his own hands. He would prosecute Comey and Clinton himself if he had to. Immediately, White House Counsel Don McGahn realized that the presidents determination to use the justice system to selectively direct prosecutions against his enemies was a blatant abuse of presidential power, and an enormous problem. 'First of all,' McGahn told the president, you can't prosecute anybody. Second of all, that's the Department of Justice's job, and if you do that, they're all going to quit.' Trump said he did not understand. He was the president and ran the executive branch. Why couldn't he tell the Justice Department whom to prosecute? Book jacket. Contributor: Michael S. Schmidt