These scholars pointed to other Trump actions they say blatantly broke the law, such as freezing trillions of dollar in federal spending and dismissing members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), even though they were confirmed by the Senate and had several years left in their terms.
“Without any doubt Donald Trump is the most lawless and scofflaw president we have ever seen in the history of the United States,” said Laurence Tribe, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars and a professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.
Tribe said Trump has carried out “a blitzkrieg on the law and the constitution. The very fact that the illegal actions have come out with the speed of a rapidly firing Gatling gun makes it very hard for people to focus on any one of them. That’s obviously part of the strategy.”
It feels like he is just trying to overwhelm opponents and the courts with a massive barrage of violations. It takes months or even a year for these things to work their way through the system. In the meantime he can slow them down and just keep enacting his edicts. By the time anyone stops him he could’ve had them going for months.
He also knows his supporters are so disconnected from reality and slaves to conspiracy theories that he can do anything and deflect it and his supporters will nod in agreement like trained seals.