Franklin Foer: Trump Now Sees SCOTUS Decision as an Attack on His Monomaniacal Interpretation of the Presidency
EXCERPT:
FOER: “They have given him a blank check as it relates to immunity and the like over time. And here there's pushback. And the reason that Trump needed to respond in the way that he responded is because the unmitigated exercise of executive authority is so essential to his self-conception and his conception of the presidency. So when he is challenged in this this eloquent way where Gorsuch delivered this kind of rousing call for Congress to start -- I read it as a rousing call for --“
BRZEZINSKI: “Yes.”
FOER: “-- Congress to begin asserting itself again. This cuts to the very core of the Trump presidency, which is why he has to respond in the way that he does, because it's -- it's an attack on his monomaniacal interpretation of the presidency.”




