ANALYSIS — Call it the Trump Doctrine, Version 2.0.
The president and his second-term team have shown an unprecedented willingness to both ignore and exploit long-held traditions and norms that caused other chiefs executive to reject certain courses of actions.
Mix in the most expansive view of executive power in U.S. history, and the product has some Democrats and legal experts hearing the ghost of England’s King George III, the sovereign in London during the Revolutionary War, around every corner.