A sprawling public park and golf course in Washington, D.C., is the latest target in Donald Trump’s crusade to turn the nation’s capital into a monument to himself — and a new, volatile front in a long-running battle between the president and the courts.
With little warning, more than 400 trees were ripped down over a holiday weekend for a park that the president has described as a “World Class Championship Golf Course,” kicking off a series of tense courtroom hearings and court filings from top administration officials trying to throw a federal judge off the case entirely.
