CNN’s Chalian: Trump Running a ‘Banana Republic’

RUSH EXCERPT:

CHALIAN: “Well, right. So that’s a whole new context for any of these developments, because there’s now going to be an additional layer of scrutiny applied. But, wolf, as Jeffrey noted there, are two things going on here. There’s the banana republic piece of this that Donald Trump previewed for us in the second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton when he said, if he won the election he was going to have a special prosecutor investigate Hillary Clinton to which she replied, thank god somebody with Donald Trump’s temperament is not in charge of the laws in this country. So this was fully litigated before the American public in the 2016 presidential debate. It’s why we’re not surprised at these developments any more. But it doesn’t make them any less shocking when we actually see a development like this. The other piece is this notion — Jeffrey called it a tradition but this notion of an independent justice arm, that that is separate and apart from the president’s wishes.”